Building and Enhancing Literacy Skills Across the Curriculum

Course Description:
This course introduces the concepts of new literacies in the 21st century as evolving social phenomena and shared cultural practices across learning areas. The 21st century literacies shall include (a) globalization and multi-cultural literacy, (b) social literacy, (c) media literacy, (d) financial literacy, (e) cyber literacy /digital literacy, (f) eco-literacy and (g) arts and creativity literacy. Field based-interdisciplinary explorations (ex. observation in mathematics, Field Studies) and other teaching strategies shall be used to develop PSTs’ teaching skills to promote learners’ literacy, and critical and creative thinking skills. Pre-service teachers shall develop skills in using appropriate teaching strategies and resources, including the positive use of ICT, to address learning goals.

Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the pre-service teacher should be able to:
1. demonstrate content knowledge and its application within and/or across
curriculum teaching areas;
2. demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies that promote literacy skills;
3. apply teaching strategies that develop learners’ critical and creative thinking and
/or other higher order thinking skills;
4. show skills in the selection, development and use of variety of teaching and
learning resources, including ICT, to address learning goals;
5. demonstrate skills in the positive use of ICT.