EDU 305 Teaching English Language Arts
Provides candidates with pedagogical knowledge and skills in the integrated language arts to assess, plan, and implement instruction that is developmentally appropriate to the level of all students. The course will focus on the importance of emergent literacy, language acquisition, language structure, spoken, written, and visual language, reading and literature, and the most effective instructional methods to enhance the learning for middle/adolescent grades within the language arts area. The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) Language Arts Model will serve as an instructional resource. Performance-based assessments adhering to Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Standards and Specialized Professional Associations (SPA) are required.