ECHD 461 Planning for Diversity and English Language Development in Out-of-School Time classrooms

1 Credit(s)

This one-credit, online course provides the knowledge and skills to support English Language Development 9ELD) across expressive and receptive language domains for school-age children who are English Language Learners (ELL), or have other learning and language barriers. Participants will learn about; the language development and how to integrate best practices into a seamless lesson planning and implementation approaches; to welcome, support, and enhance language and literacy skill development for all children and youth and respond appropriately to the individualized ELD needs of non-native speakers of English. This is an elective, especially for the EECIS- Youth and Community Outreach concentration. As one credit elective, UMB students would take them if they are looking for elective in Early Childhood. They are not needed for the program of study. Sometimes our students transfer in an odd number of credits, due to lab courses, etc.; therefore just need one credit and prefer EECIS courses. Course was developed with funding from the department of Early Education and Care (EEC) in collaboration with BOSTnet. EEC funded these courses to have the content available at three levels: for professional development hours, for CEU and for college credit. Here is a quote from the Scope of Work: “Develop online courses related to school age child care and a plan for the on-going presentation of such courses to educator and providers working with school age children in multiple formats leading to professional development hours, continuing education units, and college credit. EEC is looking for a vendor to develop and offer coursework related to educators and administrators working with school age children. Course work must result in a minimum of 0.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and 1 college credit.” (SOW, Nov. 8, 2013)