5 credits
Making academic content accessible and comprehensible for all learners requires specific strategies P–12 teachers need to know and be able to demonstrate. By focusing on academic language, content acquisition, and the appropriate use of technology, education professionals add to their repertoire of strategies to meet content standards for all students, including those with diverse needs, learning styles, and abilities. Education professionals will plan ways to collaborate and share knowledge with other educators within their professional setting and review and evaluate research to inform effective practices. Also addressedn this course are ways to develop programs that integrate both content and literacy objectives to better enhance the development of all learners throughout the content areas.