Literacy Strategies for Middle and Secondary Content Area Teachers

By the end of this semester students will:

1. Understand the expanded definition of the nature of literacy and its social and cultural impact on a diverse and multicultural society.
2. Understand how students learn most effectively and apply this understanding to classroom methods and activities
3. Create a variety of meaningful classroom activities, materials, & resources for future use, which guide and assist learning, foster critical thinking, and incorporate literacy skills.
4. Be familiar with a variety of ways to assess student abilities and plan for instruction accordingly
5. Understand the principles of and be able to demonstrate pedagogical uses of academic service learning.
6. Understand the 7 Essential Understandings of the Montana Indian Education for All Act.
7. Be able to bring learners and texts together such that it results in active student involvement and collaboration with both the classroom and larger community.
8. Uderstand the difference and achieve a balance between subject content and learning processes.
9. Develop the practice of critical reflection in their professional lives.
10. Challenge and reinforce their own beliefs and feelings about teaching and participating in a democracy.