ELEM 510 - Elementary Education Methods I: Humanities

• Differentiate literacy practices upon learners’ language background and individual needs. 
• Explain how reading, writing, speaking, listening, visualizing, viewing, and thinking are integrated and are developmental processes. 
• Implement research-based literacy strategy lessons using a variety of culturally relevant, print and non-print, literary and expository texts. 
• Examine the writing process, its components, the effective traits, and its recursive, interactive, and collaborative nature. 
• Examine a wide range of texts represented and authored by a range of cultures and ethnicities and representing both female and male protagonists and authors.
• Analyze current research for elementary social studies classroom employing professional vocabulary. 
• Construct arguments with evidence. 
• Assess critical attributes of key concepts used in teaching elementary social studies. 
• Evaluate a contemporary civic engagement event (e.g., school board meeting, county commissioner meeting, policy report, etc.)  
• Create elementary social studies activities and resources that enhance an inclusive age and grade-appropriate classroom.