Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Identify language universals.
- Explain first and second language acquisition theories and principles.
- Contrast social language acquisition with academic language acquisition.
- Describe oral language development in the classroom.
- Identify teaching methods to promote oral language development.
- Explain how to develop oral language through content area instruction.
- Describe how to assess classroom oral language development.
- Explain standards-based instruction and assessment.
- Compare differentiated instruction and content-based instruction.
- Explain the components of thematic instruction.
- Describe how to scaffold reading and writing instruction and assessment for English language learners.
- Describe learning strategies for the three-stage reading process.
- Describe learning strategies for reading comprehension.
- Determine methods to assess literacy development.
- Determine methods to assess vocabulary progression.
- Identify the characteristics of beginning and intermediate readers.
- Identify instructional strategies for beginning and intermediate readers.
- Describe the stages of writing development for English language learners.
- Identify instructional strategies to assist beginning and intermediate writers.
- Assess writing progression.
- Differentiate instruction for writing development.
