Challenges students to think critically, collaborate, and integrate multiple disciplines as they explore the role that popular culture and schooling play in forming their identities. Students will use critical reading skills to analyze films, television, music, and other aspects of popular culture and compare to prominent theories and their experiences. Part of the Identity Issue. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Offers students opportunities to gain knowledge about language development and the emergence of reading and writing. Students will apply this knowledge to implement oral language and emergent and early literacy assessments and research-based principles and practices to meet the developmental needs of children PK-6. Prerequisite: ENG 201.
This course will help secondary pre-service teachers learn strategies, theory, and research that support literacy in all disciplines. Students will engage in class discussions, prepare demonstrations, and in other ways explore effective methods for helping their students read, write, listen, speak, view, and represent in meaningful ways. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Admission to the College of Education and Community Innovation. Corequisites: EDI 310 and EDI 331.
To meet the needs of PK-6 students, candidates will learn to select, enact, and evaluate evidence-based, inclusive, and intensive literacy practices for the purpose of creating supportive and equitable learning environments. Course content and school-based fieldwork will attend particularly to students experiencing, or at-risk of experiencing, language-learning difficulties and disabilities. Cross-listed with EDS 323. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisites: EDR 320 and EDS 318 (both can be taken concurrently).
Winter 2025 - Hybrid Spring/Summer 2025 - Hybrid
This course provides to English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teacher candidates teaching and learning theories and practical applications in diverse education settings. Topics include teaching strategies, materials development, technology integration, and strategies for engaging students with experience of trauma. 20 hours field experience required. Offered each semester.
Foundations of Literacy centers on the introduction of the theoretical, conceptual, and historical foundations of literacy and language and the application of the foundational knowledge in PK-12 classroom settings. Students engage in evaluating and reflecting on the curricula and instructional practices in PK-12 classroom settings. Offered at least once a year. Prerequisite: Acceptance into a graduate certification program.
Spring/Summer 2025 - Online
Elementary Literacy: Learners, Text, and the Environment centers on teaching with text to meet the learning, developmental, and cultural needs of individual PK-6 learners. This course emphasizes the ways teachers can foster literacy-rich learning environments, while also highlighting the reciprocal relationship between reading and writing. Offered at least once a year.
Winter 2025 - Online Spring/Summer 2025 - Online
Secondary Literacy: Learners, Text, and the Environment centers on teaching with text to meet the learning, developmental, and cultural needs of individual learners in grades 7 through 12. This course emphasizes the ways teachers can foster literacy-rich learning environments, while also highlighting the reciprocal relationship between reading and writing. Offered at least once a year.
Field-based Literacy Assessment for Learning examines research, theory, and assessment practices appropriate for meeting the literacy needs of all PK-12 students. This course is designed to provide state-required clinical experience in diagnosing literacy strengths and needs and to meet PK-12 teacher certification renewal requirements.
Literacy Instruction Across Disciplines (PK-6) centers on the application of foundational knowledge to design, analyze, and implement PK-6 literacy curricula, instruction, and literacy-rich environments to meet learners' needs. Students will develop and articulate a holistic vision for literacy curriculum and instruction that integrates content and disciplinary literacies. Offered at least once a year.
Writing, Teaching, and Learning provides an overview of the research, relevant theories, pedagogies, and essential concepts of writing instruction, with attention to diversity and equity in PK-12 classrooms. Candidates will design, implement, and assess writing instructional practices in the context of student learning. Offered at least once a year. Prerequisite: Teaching experience or admission into a graduate certification program.
Literacy and Language Interventions engages candidates in the research around literacy instructional practices. In this course, candidates will select, adapt, design, and evaluate literacy interventions and approaches to meet the needs of PK-12 learners. This course is designed to provide clinical experience with literacy interventions. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisites: EDR 621 and EDR 626.
Winter 2025 - Online
Examines how language and language variations are used in social context and the interdependent relationship between language and culture. Provides a theoretical and practical foundation for candidates to use linguistically and culturally responsive teaching strategies. 20 hours field experience required. Offered winter semester.
Focuses on knowledge and skills necessary to understand K-12 bilingual/multilingual students, and their development of bilingual competencies and biliteracy skills. Candidates will understand biliteracy/bilingual teaching and assessment strategies, policies, and issues related to bilingual education. 15 hours of fieldwork required. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: This course is open to any graduate students enrolled at GVSU, because the topics may be valuable to those who are interested in working with children from multicultural/multilingual backgrounds.
The course provides in-depth study of assessment and testing policies, theories, practices, and equity issues regarding assessing English learners at various English proficiency levels. The course is focused on alternative/authentic assessments and implementation of these assessments in placement/lesson planning, including World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA). Fieldwork 15 hrs. Offered winter semester.
Literacy Instruction Practicum requires candidates to demonstrate the ability to be reflective literacy professionals who apply foundational knowledge of literacy and language in PK-12 classroom settings. Practicum meets university and state requirements for completing supervised, integrated, extended clinical experiences in school-based settings. Offered at least once a year. EDR 685A - Practicum for Reading Teachers EDR 685B - TESOL Prerequisites: Not to be used for initial certification. Completion of emphasis area. Permit required.
Professional Development and Leadership Practicum requires candidates to plan and lead professional development informed by theory, research, and practice concerning PK-12 literacy development, literacy instruction, leadership, professional development, reflection, and reading/literacy specialist responsibilities. Practicum meets university and state requirements for completing supervised, integrated, extended clinical experiences in school-based setting(s). Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: EDR 621, EDR 624 or EDR 625, EDR 626, EDR 628 or EDR 630, EDR 631, EDR 632, and EDR 685.
The student identifies a problem, reviews literature, creates a product based on applicable literature, research or theory that addresses the problem, and develops a plan for implementation and evaluation. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: Completion of 27 credit hours, EDF 660, application required (application deadline: fall May 15, winter September 15, spring/summer February 15), and completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research Training within last three years.
Involves either theoretical research or empirical research that identifies an issue or question, reviews literature, designs a study, gathers and analyzes data or evidence, and presents interpretations or conclusions. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: Completion of 27 credit hours, EDF 660, application required, and completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research Training within last three years.
Continuation of work related to the master's project or thesis phase of the graduate student's program. Registration is required after all respective project or thesis credits are completed and the project or thesis is not completed. Work will be performed under the supervision of the project advisor or thesis committee chair. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: Completion of all required project or thesis credits and completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research Training within last three years.
