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Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies
Begins April 6
Reading is an essential activity for people in every walk of life, and for students of every subject in school. The ability to read and comprehend information is crucial to understanding society around us, as well as making decisions and defending one’s views and opinions.
Social studies teachers, like all educators, bear a responsibility to prepare students to become engaged and informed citizens. That preparation must include direct instruction in how to develop the reading skills that will help students achieve higher in social studies--and in life.
In Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies, you will call upon a variety of literacy skills and instruction methods, evaluating their effectiveness. You will also think critically about ways to improve student achievement, acquiring methods that will help you meet the literacy needs of all students.
Course Goal
The goal of this course is to equip teachers with a variety of strategies and resources to enhance literacy instruction in the social studies classroom in an ongoing and purposeful manner.
Prerequisites
Participants must be high school social studies teachers.
Course objectives
Although a variety of activities and readings have been designed to help participants become familiar and comfortable with strategies to promote adolescent literacy, there are five objectives participants should achieve in Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies:
- Assess current knowledge and attitudes about adolescent literacy instruction
- Become familiar with research-based recommendations to improve reading instruction in social studies classes
- Understand and implement an array of resources appropriate for both student reading levels and the specific social studies course
- Implement a variety of strategies to aid student comprehension
- Help striving readers by using specific strategies that support learning
Audience
This course is appropriate for high school social studies teachers.
Standards Alignment
- Standard 3: Teachers know the content they teach
- Teachers align their instruction with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
- Standard 4: Teachers facilitate learning for their students
- c. Teachers use a variety of instructional methods.
- Standard 5: Teachers reflect on their practice
- a. Teachers analyze student learning.
This course also satisfies standards from the National Staff Development Council, the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), and International Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
Time commitment
Approximately 5-6 hours per week
Materials required
The course does not require a text. Participants will be asked to use resources from their classroom to practice knowledge and skills learned in this course.
Take this course!
This course is scheduled to be taught beginning April 6.
It will be open for enrollment until April 6 or until maximum enrollment has been met.
