Syllabus

Master of Science in Education

EDU 742: Study Skills and Content Literacy Instruction for All – Summer B 2022

Credits - 3

Description

This course focuses on research-based study skills and strategies for providing literacy instruction within the classroom content area. Educators will learn to integrate literacy and study skills instruction in their classrooms while designing reading assignments that afford students access to the concepts in the text. Concepts and strategies presented are relevant to the needs of ESL students.

Materials

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

 

Course Objectives	ILA Standards for Reading Professionals
Students will research, evaluate, and apply content concepts and effective instructional strategies that engage students in active learning using tools of the discipline.	ILA Standard 2
Students will research, evaluate, and apply learning materials to create effective content area learning experiences for diverse learners.	ILA Standard 2, Standard 6
Students will actively engage in a learning community to increase understanding of how to teach content area literacy.	ILA Standard 1, Standard 6

Assignments

Discussions

Online discussions provide participants with opportunities to make meaning of new theory, key concepts, and applications of theory to practice. Participants contribute to the intellectual development of the class by offering insights, synthesizing understandings, and responding to the postings of others. The expectation is that students make an initial post and comment on the posts of at least two classmates each week.

Text Description and Quantitative Analysis

It is important for educators to know how to determine a text’s complexity in order to match texts to readers and to better support student comprehension of those texts. For this assignment, participants will utilize the support materials in this module to write an essay recommending a text to support a particular grade level and subject area

Strategy Exploration #1: Reading Informational Texts

Students will explore practical teaching strategies for reading informational texts in content areas. The completed assignment will have three major elements, a description of each of two strategies that include an explanation of its practical applications in a diverse classroom, a justification of each of the use of each of the strategies, and academic research to support both the description and the justification. 

Strategy Exploration #2: Content Area Vocabulary

Students will explore practical teaching strategies for supporting vocabulary development in content areas. The completed assignment will have three major elements, a description of each of two strategies that include an explanation of its practical applications in a diverse classroom, a justification of each of the use of each of the strategies, and academic research to support both the description and the justification. 

Strategy Exploration #3: Writing in the Content Areas

Students will explore practical teaching strategies for authentic writing in the content areas. The completed assignment will have three major elements, a description of each of two strategies that include an explanation of its practical applications in a diverse classroom, a justification of each of the use of each of the strategies, and academic research to support both the description and the justification.

Collaborative or Cooperative Learning Classroom Experience

Students will design a collaborative or cooperative learning experience for the classroom. Using resources from the module as a starting point, students will describe their chosen strategy or learning experience, establish a larger context for the activity, then justify their choices using research. 

Content Area Learning Snapshot and Justification

For this assignment, students will synthesize course content to create a snapshot of learning for use within their classroom. The completed assignment will include content area texts for use with specific students, descriptions of the complexity of each text, as well as specific strategies for supporting the reading and understanding of each text.  Students will also include a research-supported justification explaining their choices.

 

Grading Policy

Your grade in this course will be determined by the following criteria:

Grade Breakdown

Assignment	Points Value (total 100 points)
Discussions (8 discussions, 3 points each)	24
Week 2: Text Description and Quantitative Analysis	12
Week 3: Strategy Exploration #1	12
Week 4: Strategy Exploration #2	12
Week 5: Strategy Exploration #3	12
Week 6: Collaborative or Cooperative Learning Experience	12
Week 7: Content Area Learning Snapshot	16

Grade Scale

Grade	Points Grade	Point Average (GPA)
A	94 – 100%	4.00
A-	90 – 93%	3.75
B+	87 – 89%	3.50
B	84 – 86%	3.00
B-	80 – 83%	2.75
C+	77 – 79%	2.50
C	74 – 76%	2.00
C-	70 – 73%	1.75
D	64 – 69%	1.00
F	00 – 63%	0.00