Description
Acceptance in the Center for Dine Teacher Education B.A. Elementary Education program.
In this course, pre-service teachers are introduced to ways of understanding home and school language and literacy as a part of self-expression. Literacy across the disciplines and in Language Arts K-8 classrooms will be studied. The focus is on how the emergent literacy and language acquisition of non-English-language-background students can be observed and supported by elementary teachers in Navajo Nation schools. Topics covered include language and literacy learning, developing and organizing instruction, self-understanding and self-expression, feedback, and assessment of learning.