The Core Knowledge Language Arts, a widely field-tested program that scaffolds skills, knowledge, and vocabulary throughout core content areas, will serve as the catalyst to examining this successful pedagogy over PK through grade two. The Core Knowledge curriculum will be used to aid participants in development of working knowledge about the theoretical principles that underlie its research and its success in classrooms throughout the country. As participants are introduced to, and experiment with, strategies and examples of strategies in action in support of the curriculum, they will apply their own pedagogy to new concepts about how students learn, why some students struggle to learn, and how to ameliorate these struggles in the classroom.
Course Objectives:
- Develop working knowledge of, and facility with, the Core Knowledge theories as a K-2 curriculum.
- Explore and experiment with strategies that support Core Knowledge curriculum.
- Examine Core Knowledge strategies and best practices to make appropriate and sound pedagogical decisions that apply to their own classrooms.
- Select and embed the Core Knowledge strategies and essentials into units and comprehensive lessons.