EDU 335 - Teaching Elementary Language Arts

3 Credit(s)

This course focuses on current best-practice, research-based approaches to the teaching and learning of elementary language arts, which includes reading, writing, speaking, viewing, listening and visually representing. Use of an integrated teaching approach helps preservice educators develop unit learning outcomes and lesson objectives, apply the Characteristics of Effective Instruction of the Iowa Core, enhance content knowledge, utilize methodologies, organize curriculum and assess learning in a variety of ways. Preservice educators develop curriculum, lessons, and units based on state and national standards to use in their student teaching and teaching experiences. Integration of technology, creative arts, and classroom management, as they apply to teaching and student learning in the language arts are addressed.

Prerequisites: Admittance to the Teacher Education Program;
Co-requisites: EDU 306, EDU 307 or EDU 308.
Undergraduate