Prerequisites: Completion of Level I requirements. This course explores literacy achievement and assessment to guide developmentally appropriate instruction, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Assessment practices explored include running records, informal reading inventories, orthographic inventories, and analytic writing assessment. Teacher candidates will utilize assessment findings, children's literature, and global technologies to create purposeful, targeted literacy instruction for students.

Prerequisites: Completion of Level II requirements and ELE ED 3338. This course continues to explore developmentally appropriate literacy instruction for elementary students through deep exploration of methods of teaching reading and writing, including reading and writing workshops, guided reading, and word work / phonics. Particular attention will be paid to how these instructional methods might be adapted based upon students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Teacher candidates will utilize a variety of assessments, children's literature, and global technologies to create a series of purposeful, targeted literacy lessons that reflect students evolving abilities over time.

Prerequisites: Completion of mathematics requirements in General Education. This course explores pedagogical techniques and best practices for the creation and delivery of elementary mathematics curriculum to all students, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. The mathematical content includes number and operations in base ten, fractions, decimals, percents, and proportional reasoning. Additional field experience may be required.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education Program and completion of social science requirements in general education. This course explores the teaching of current social studies curricular content in elementary settings. Topics include US history, geography, civics and government, economics, culture, and technology, and the appropriate teaching methods and development of related instructional materials. Particular attention will be paid to how these topics and strategies might be adapted based upon students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. Ten (10) clinical hours required to complete course assignments.

Prerequisite: Admission into Teacher Education Program required. An analysis of teaching science to K-6 students with emphasis on current science education trends, science curricular materials, and strategies of instruction.

Prerequisite: ELE ED 4246. This course explores pedagogical techniques and best practices for the creation and delivery of elementary mathematics curriculum to all students, including consideration of elementary students' cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as special education services received. The mathematical content of this course includes geometry, measurement, probability, statistics, and data analysis. Additional field experience may be required.

Prerequisites: Accepted Practicum I application. This course is a two-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Practicum I includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum I.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I. This course is a four-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Practicum II includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum II.

Prerequisites: Accepted Practicum application. This course is a two-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Particular emphasis will be given to differentiated instruction and impacting student achievement for diverse populations. Practicum I includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum I.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I requirements. This course is a four-day per week intensive, collaborative professional experience in inclusive K-12 settings with emphasis in elementary classrooms. This course emphasizes improving student learning outcomes, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and video use and analysis. Particular emphasis will be given to differentiated instruction and impacting student achievement for diverse populations. Practicum II includes mandatory on-site and on-campus seminars which could be scheduled outside of normal class time. Students are required to take the appropriate DESE-mandated content exam during Practicum II.

Prerequisites: Director of Clinical Experience approval. This course is a 2 day per week intensive professional development experience working in K-12 settings with students with emphasis in inclusive elementary classrooms. On-site activities include partnering with the classroom teacher in all areas of instruction, assessment, and classroom management. Some methods course assignments may be completed during the practicum day at school sites. Activities to acquire research skills are included.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Practicum I and Director of Clinical Experience approval. This course is a clinical teaching experience 4 days per week in inclusive elementary settings. Teacher candidates spend time in schools engaged in various capacities to improve student learning within small group instruction, whole class teaching, lesson planning and special programs to demonstrate proficiency on all professional teacher standards. Teacher candidates collect data for a research project.

Prerequisites: ELE ED 6686. This course is an application of literacy theory and research in a supervised setting. The emphasis is on assessing and analyzing the literacy strengths, needs, and interests of a range of readers with the goal of improving their literacy abilities and attitudes. The focus is on establishing reading support for K-12 students with the assistance of formal and informal assessments, reading professionals, educators, and students' families.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course extends candidate knowledge of effective instructional designs and strategies for teaching literacy. Emphasis is on development of a teaching philosophy which acknowledges students gain considerable knowledge about reading and writing from their families and communities. Emphasis is placed on integrating research-based components of reading, including: phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, comprehension, fluency, and decoding within culturally- and linguistically-responsive instructional designs. Focus is on effective instructional design and strategies to promote students' writing and reading success within face-to-face and online classrooms.