This course focuses on struggling students and emphasizing classroom-based, teacher-driven approaches to assessment and remediation. Expanded coverage of portfolio assessment, lexiles and guided reading levels, running records, and developmental spelling stages, emergent literacy assessments, assessing and teaching students with limited English proficiency is also included.

This course guides you as you learn to become proficient at applying the computer to solve problems; to infuse the computer into the curriculum in order to help you do the same; and to integrate technology into their professional, academic, and personal lives in useful and meaningful ways.

This course offers you the foundations of education a perspective arguing American society has undergone a series of profound social, cultural, and political changes since 1960s that have redefined the meaning of teaching, learning, and schooling in a postmodern culture. It directs you toward most vital issues in contemporary education.

This course offers the most current insight on thinking processes, on reading and writing as language, and on the importance of the affective domain. It provides an overview of phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition, decoding, reading comprehension and vocabulary.

Designed to apply learning theory and principles to presentation of learning, this course shows how learning principles work in both animals and people. Throughout the course, you would learn how study of learning helps solve practical problems, impact of habituation and classical conditioning. Course explores human memory, its functions and processes.

Through this course you will gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental role that reading and writing play in content-area learning. The course offers step-by-step approaches to gauge student literacy, build vocabulary, and implement instruction that improves comprehension, encourages critical reading, supports writing for learning, and facilitates collaboration for literacy development.