Building the Base: An Integrated Approach to Literacy Across the Content Areas (Grades 3–5, Elementary) - EDC-X785Y
Course Description
Credit Validation for WestED Participants Only
This course is designed to build the expertise educators need to provide English Learners with equitable and high-quality learning opportunities. Participants will explore the evolving educational landscape and what it means to empower English Learners to reach their full potential as critical and productive citizens. Through engagement with disciplinary exemplars, educators will learn to balance high expectations with the appropriate levels of support. The course also focuses on designing well-scaffolded lessons aligned to key standards and fostering the development of students’ academic use of English across content areas.
Learner Outcomes
- Understand the ever-shifting context against which education takes place and what it means to provide English Learners with opportunities that develop their potential to become critical and productive citizens
- Engage in disciplinary exemplars that provide high expectations coupled with high support
- Design well-scaffolded lessons that address key standards
- Develop students’ academic uses of English in the disciplines
Course Details
Number of Units: 1 - 2.5 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours. Please choose unit selection upon checkout.
Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for WestEd Participants.