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Global Graduate Programs 59 learn how to adapt them to your classroom and/or content area. Assess student progress and adjust your teaching to become more effective. n Understand how to teach reading comprehension: n Analyze the latest reading comprehension research. n Examine the importance of effective reading-comprehension instruction across the curriculum. n Determine the variables related to successful reading comprehen- sion, including learner characteristics, aspects of text, the reading task, motivation and engagement, and students' use and transfer of strategies. n Implement effective reading comprehension practices: n Provide appropriate reading comprehension strategies for diverse learners. n Develop instructional practices that help students interact with texts to enhance meaning. n Provide meaningful, productive vocabulary instruction. n Use informal and formal assessments to diagnose students' needs. n Develop and implement intervention strategies for individual learners. n Select and develop appropriate instructional materials that align with state and local standards. VCPD 550/ Teaching through Learning Channels (Online) 3 cr. Explore learning-style preferences and develop brain-compatible strate- gies to address them through multisensory teaching. Discover how to address students' basic motivational needs in a learning environment that incorporates a variety of brain-compatible techniques. n Understand basic student needs: n Learn the five basic requirements for motivating students. n Identify how these needs are met in your classroom and in your school. n Design lessons to meet all five needs. n Discover how to teach to all learning styles: n Learn strategies that address all sensory, perceptual, and organizational preferences. n Meet classroom challenges by using learning-style approaches. n Design lessons you can use immediately with your students. n Learn how to teach for concept mastery: n Explore the five steps of the natural learning process. n Design lessons that apply these steps. VCPD 590/Secondary Content Method (Online) 3 cr. This course examines the content in the secondary school content cur- riculum standards and helps students make connections among the higher-level courses they have taken in college and the material taught in secondary schools. Students study the content and pedagogy appropriate for teaching high school curriculum content standards. They enhance their familiarity with national standards and the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards and examine standards-based teaching and curricula in light of current education research. Students learn that problem solving is central to all of teaching and learning and that it is to be incorporated as a central theme in their own instructional practices. Students also examine research on how adolescents learn presented cur- riculum content, and they learn instructional strategies for teaching course work to children from diverse cultures and ability levels. 244328_001-091_r1.indd 59 9/1/17 1:40 PM

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