Amplifying the Curriculum

Instructor: Rosie Santana

Format: Online, Self-Paced

Commitment: 15 hours

Available Credits: 1

Course Description: 

"Amplifying the Curriculum" presents an ambitious model for how educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for English Learners and other students identified to be in need of language and literacy support. This practical study offers guidance for designing lessons and units and provides examples that demonstrate the approach in various subject areas, including math, science, English, and social studies. Students will develop familiarity of the model for instruction, examine discipline-specific examples of learning tasks, lessons, and units of study, and design high-quality learning opportunities grounded in the sociocultural and ecological theories of language, language learning, and the development of disciplinary practices. 

Course Requirements: 

• • • Read "Amplifying the Curriculum."  

    • Respond in writing to reflection questions related to each chapter.

    • Submit a final 1-page reflection paper summarizing learning.