T L 5126 - Content Literacy Strategies for Diverse Learners

Meets with T L 6126. This course will acquaint preservice and inservice teachers with methods for using literacy to help students learn in middle- and secondary-content areas. These methods are designed to enable diverse learners--who may differ in culture, gender, and language, and those with learning disabilities--to become independent, strategic learners within the context of curricular, instructional, and assessment practices that facilitate learning for all students in inclusive classrooms. This course will focus on issues and strategies for teaching comprehension, reading, and writing to learn important content information and to think critically within sociocultural contexts and the disciplines. Prerequisite for the secondary teacher certification program.