These strategies enhance learning by improving students' abilities to read, write, study, and think critically in the language of the content area. Literacy-based strategies provide students with the tools needed for independent and lifelong learning. Content area literacy includes the development of comprehension, study skills, metacognitive awareness, purposeful reading, critical thinking, vocabulary, word recognition, writing, questioning, and discussion skills. Students are asked to consider this course a professional development opportunity in which they play the role of teachers in training.
Heavy emphasis is placed on collaboration with classmates as professional colleagues.
This course has an internship component and should be taken prior to student teaching.