EDU 2011 - Reading/Writing: Elementary Classroom

This course focuses on how constructivist, language-based principles apply to learning to read and to writ. It is an inquiry course focused on two principal questions: (1) What is your relationship to language? Who are you, a prospective teacher, as a reader and a writer? (2) What is the nature of language and what is its place in the teaching/learning process in an elementary school classroom? This course offers practical experience in how to manage and monitor a reading-writing classroom through the design and/or use of appropriate curricula, the organization of the physical space and learning processes, and the development of methods of assessment and instruction. Fieldwork will include a child study that addresses both literacy learning and exceptionality.
Prerequisite: EDU 1012 with a grade of B- or better.
Co-requisite: EDU 2012
Fall