Armstrong Atlantic State University

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Armstrong Atlantic State University
Teaching reading to Georgias teachers
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College of Education

• Early Childhood Education
• Bachelor of Science in Education
• Master of Education
• Middle, Secondary, and Adult Education
• Bachelor of Science in Education
• Master of Education
• Special Education
• Bachelor of Science in Education
• Master of Education
• Georgia Teacher Alternative Preparation

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Early Childhood Education

• Undergraduate courses
• Language Cognition
• Literature Language Arts
• Teaching of Reading
• Diagnosis Remediation of Reading Problems
• All courses are field-based.
• Practicums cover a range of grade levels and
  diverse school settings.
• All courses are aligned with Georgia Performance
  Standards.

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Early Childhood Education

• Undergraduate experiences
• Pre-service teachers
• use a variety of investigative tools to identify
  factors that impact children's, classroom
  teachers, and their own reading development and
  habits
• discuss educational issues with teachers enrolled
  in the Reading Endorsement courses via an online
  course entitled Teacher Talk
• complete an online Literacy Work Sample, a major
  piece of their electronic portfolio, during the
  Diagnosis Remediation course

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Early Childhood Education

• Graduate courses
• Understanding Readers the Reading Process
  (Reading Endorsement I)
• Linking Literacy Assessment to Instruction
  (Reading Endorsement II)
• Instructional Strategies in the Content Areas
  (Reading Endorsement III)
• Additional courses can be taken as specialized
  content courses.
• All courses require field-based assignments.
• Comprehensive portfolio requires candidates to
  demonstrate ability to apply what they have
  learned.

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Early Childhood Education

• Graduate experiences
• Classroom-based research projects focus on
  language and literacy development, use of
  instructional strategies and assessment tools,
  cross-grade level support for literacy
  development
• Professional development opportunities include
• Mentoring pre-service teachers
• Conducting parent workshops on literacy
  development, creating websites to highlight
  literacy events in the classroom
• Submitting conference and/or research proposals
  
• Collaboration with colleagues across grade levels
  across areas of expertise
• Reading Endorsement courses include early
  childhood, middle grades, secondary, and special
  education teachers
• Reading Endorsement courses will be offered to
  cohorts of Special Education teachers (Summer
  2005)

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Middle Grades Education

• Undergraduate courses
• Adolescent Literature
• Language Arts Theory Practice
• Reading Writing in the Content Areas
• All courses are field based.
• Practicums cover a range of grade levels
  diverse school settings.
• All courses are aligned with Georgia
  Performance Standards.

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Middle Grades Education

• Undergraduate experiences
• Pre-service teachers
• interview classroom teachers about literacy
  practices
• interview middle grades students about literature
  preferences, reading habits
• share results of interviews and relate to best
  practice research

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Middle Grades Education

• Graduate courses
• Specialized content and elective hours may
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• Literature for the Middle Grades Learner
• Teaching Reading in the Middle Grades
• Understanding Readers the Reading Process
• Linking Literacy Assessment to Instruction
• Instructional Strategies in the Content Areas
• All courses require field-based assignments.
• Comprehensive portfolios require candidates to
  demonstrate ability to apply what they have
  learned.

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Middle Grades Education

• Graduate experiences
• Research areas cover pedagogy, theory, and
  historical and social influences on literacy
• Classroom-based research practices might involve
  student interviews, application of new
  instructional strategies and assessment tools,
  etc.
• Professional development opportunities include
  presentation of classroom-based research
  practices to peers and school community

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Adult Education

• Graduate courses
• Theory of Adult Literacy
• Communication Skills in Low Literacy Adults
• Literate Communities
• Adult Education Strategies Resources
• Psychology of Adult Learning

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Adult Education

• Graduate experiences
• Fieldwork and interviews to collect anecdotal
  life histories of reading experiences are done to
  investigate social, political, gender, ethnic,
  and economic factors impact on literacy
  development
• Immersion in the community is a major focus
• Mentoring low literate adults in a high-poverty
  neighborhood
• Tutoring GED students
• Teaching literacy students at Royce Learning
  Center

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Special Education

• Undergraduate courses
• Language Development Ages Stages
• Teaching of Reading, Spelling, Written
  Expression to Students with Disabilities
• Instructional Strategies in Content Areas for
  LD/EBD
• Instructional Strategies for Students with
  Intellectual Disabilities
• All courses are field-based.
• Practicums cover a range of grade levels and
  diverse school settings.
• All courses are aligned with Georgia
  Performance Standards.
• All courses are aligned with the International
  Standards for the Preparation Licensure of
  Special Educators of the Council for Exceptional
  Children.

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Special Education

• Undergraduate experiences
• Field-based projects address the kinds of
  problems students with disabilities experience
  with reading skills and literacy development
• Preservice special educators learn methods of
  collaborating with general education teachers to
  plan effective instruction utilizing appropriate
  accommodations as detailed by each learners
  individual education plan (IEP)
• Preservice special educators learn a variety of
  remedial instructional techniques and strategies
  that allow them to match instruction to learners
  unique needs
• Preservice special educators learn methods of
  assessment that help them gauge student progress
  and language, reading, spelling, and written
  expression skills development

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Special Education

• Graduate courses
• The Teaching of Reading
• Methods Strategies for Teaching the Learning
  Disabled Reading, Spelling, and Written
  Expression
• All courses are field-based.
• Practicums cover a range of grade levels and
  diverse school settings.
• All courses are aligned with Georgia
  Performance Standards.
• All courses are aligned with the International
  Standards for the Preparation Licensure of
  Special Educators of the Council for Exceptional
  Children.

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Special Education

• Graduate experiences
• Field-based projects address the kinds of
  problems students with disabilities experience
  with reading skills and literacy development
• Classroom-based research projects focus on
• language and literacy development
• the use of instructional strategies
• assessing the effectiveness of instructional
  methods in promoting student progress
• the most effective methods for collaborating with
  other professionals to plan effective instruction
• Professional development opportunities include
• submitting conference and/or research proposals
• writing for publication

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AASU Teaching reading to Georgias teachers

• Linking theory to classroom practices through
  field-based coursework
• Linking undergraduate and graduate coursework to
  Georgia Performance Standards
• Developing teacher communities through mentoring
  projects within and across departments
• Developing teacher communities through mentoring
  projects within the community
• Promoting professional development through
  research scholarship activities