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Literacy and Language Development for Diverse Learners 

Literacy and Language Development for Diverse Learners
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Overview

Develop a professional practice of providing instruction to support oral language development, academic reading acquisition, and academic writing acquisition

Duration

12 hours

Total fee

28,578

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Literacy and Language Development for Diverse Learners
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of course completion from the University of Colorado Denver
  • Take this course and become reading teachers and reading specialists, reading and/or writing interventionists & literacy and/or instructional coaches
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Literacy and Language Development for Diverse Learners
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Course details

Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
  • For Teachers in of all content areas in grades K-12
  • For District and School Administrators
  • For Professional Developers
What are the course deliverables?
  • Students will develop a professional practice of providing instruction to support oral language development, academic reading acquisition, and academic writing acquisition for both native speakers and English language learners
  • Participants will critically examine current assessment topics; explore a variety of assessments of language proficiency, literacy, and content concepts; use data to make decisions about how to best differentiate instruction and document student progress over time
  • Using data from their school contexts, participants will examine contextual factors that account for differences regarding language, literacy, and culture, and will then develop a plan for productive change
More about this course
  • This online graduate certificate program offers K-12 teachers a greater background in the development, assessment, and instruction of literacy for diverse learners, including children and youth who speak dialects of English or are English language learners
  • This certificate was developed in response to public school districts? need to improve reading and writing achievement and culturally responsive instruction for diverse students
  • Teachers in K-12 grades, including content area teachers and those teaching special reading classes, as well as administrators have also found this program to help them best meet the needs of struggling learners

Literacy and Language Development for Diverse Learners
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Curriculum

LCRT 5810 ? Oral & Written Language & Literacy (Spring)

This course provides students with an opportunity to examine language development and use by learners with English as their first language, learners of English as an additional language, bi-dialectal speakers and bilingual speakers

LCRT 5770 ? Effective Literacy for Diverse Learners (Fall)

This course allows students to explore, apply, and evaluate various research-based instructional models and learning strategies for teaching literacy to English language learners

LCRT 5055 ? Literacy Assessment & Informed Instruction (Fall)

This course provides participants with a study in current assessment topics, the analysis of assessment tools, and the use of assessment data as a guide for making instructional decisions

LCRT 5150 ? Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogies (Summer)

In this course, students will develop an understanding of how one's cultural identity affects their teaching behaviors and instructional methods

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