EPI0030 — Diversity in the Classroom
This course provides candidates with an understanding of the variety of backgrounds and cultures that may be found in a typical classroom. This course will include strategies for appropriate modifications for diverse learners-specifically ESE students, ESOL and ELL students as well as academically gifted students. Focus is on current research-based instructional approaches and methods of teaching and instructional practices, curriculum and materials development, cross- cultural understanding, and testing and evaluation of ESOL students. This course focuses on Reading Competency 4: Foundations and Applications of Differentiated Instruction (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.8, and 4.10).