Single Subject Methods for Teaching English

This course focuses on methodologies appropriate for facilitating English/language arts instruction at the middle and high school levels in a variety of classroom settings. As candidates for the Single Subject Credential in English, students in this course learn, practice and reflect on the specific pedagogical knowledge needed to teach English/language arts to secondary students. We explore a variety of teaching strategies for organizing a secondary English/language arts curriculum using the national standards of the Common Core. Teacher candidates discuss, plan, implement and assess appropriate instruction using current best practices for the effective teaching of English/language arts. The course addresses various curricular areas of English/language arts, including the teaching of writing, reading comprehension and literature, language applications, grammar, speaking applications and visual media, and how they can be effectively integrated into daily lesson planning while meeting Common Core Standards. Additionally, teacher candidates learn how to be reflective practitioners who regularly engage in classroom action research to improve their teaching.