Course Description
Instructor(s)
- Learn at your own pace.
- Enroll at any time.
- Completion time frames vary for the courses listed, but most take 3 or 4 months to complete.
- You must have earned a bachelor’s degree if registering for credit.
In Cultivating Genius, students will learn the four-layered framework-identity, skills, development, intellect, and criticality-as they design historically responsive learning goals and lesson plans to reach all young students, especially students of color who traditionally have been marginalized by learning standards, government policies and school practices.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will:
- Understand what it means to be historically responsive in literacy instruction.
- Identify layers of the historically responsive literacy framework for teaching and learning.
- Demonstrate understanding of content through the implementation of ideas within the classroom setting.
- Extend learning of course content through researching additional evidence that supports the author’s ideas about literacy.
- Develop skills to reflect on & improve their teaching practices.
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Online Graduate Professional Development &
Continuing Education Credit Courses for Teachers