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TCH/502
Teaching Methods: Elementary Language Arts

Course level: Continuing Teacher Education

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Continuing Education for Teachers

Online

Format

$525

Estimated Tuition

3 credits

Total credits

4 weeks

Course length

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This course explores theories, models, and strategies for teaching and learning language arts in the elementary school. Participants explore and apply strategies for teaching reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Technology and assessment in language arts is also examined.

This course is not available for enrollment to residents of Alabama, Arkansas, and Kentucky.

Prerequisites

None

Required materials

The materials required for this course are covered in your resource fees.

Please Note: Attendance and participation are mandatory in all University courses, and specific requirements may differ by course. If attendance requirements are not met, a student may be removed from the course. Please review the Course Attendance Policy in the Catalog for more information.

University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.

Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.

  • Analyze the implications of language learning and culture.
  • Determine appropriate strategies and best practices for teaching language arts.
  • Analyze the influence of instructional approaches for integrating language arts.
  • Identify technology resources as tools for teaching language arts.
  • Identify methods used to adapt effective listening techniques.
  • Differentiate among aesthetic, efferent, and critical listening.
  • Explain the purpose of effective speaking.
  • Analyze the use of oral language as a learning tool.
  • Apply strategies on using speech and listening as a learning tool in the classroom.

  • Describe strategies to foster students’ interest in literacy.
  • Integrate aesthetic and efferent reading across the curriculum.
  • Apply the fundamentals of the reading process to teaching reading.
  • Examine strategies for building students’ vocabulary.

  • Demonstrate how to teach the writing process.
  • Examine strategies for teaching the traits of effective writing.
  • Analyze the connection between reading and writing.

  • Compare assessment tools in language arts.
  • Develop differentiated instruction in language arts.
  • Evaluate methods of monitoring students’ progress in language arts.

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University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. Although our continuing teacher education courses are accepted by some state agencies in the United States toward teacher certifications and endorsements, this may not be the case in all states or foreign jurisdictions. If you plan to use courses for certification or endorsement, please check with your own state agency and your school district for applicability. Continuing teacher education courses are not eligible to apply to degree programs at University of Phoenix. These courses are not eligible for federal financial aid. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative. If you have a question contact us at (866) 354-1800.