This course is designed to provide an introduction to foundational areas of neuroscience such as brain anatomy and brain mapping techniques and its applications to education. Students will study different viewpoints of links between education and neuroscience and develop their own notions of what educational questions might be answered with brain-based techniques.

This practicum-based course bridges theory to practice, addressing how to support student diversity through culturally relevant and equitable teaching frameworks. The course will introduce strategies to support multilingual students and students experiencing reading difficulties. Provides opportunities to apply effective, equity-based instructional practices to classroom practice.

The practicum provides opportunities to apply effective instructional practices in teaching ESL students. Deals with the relationship between first and second language acquisition and literacy, dialect, linguistics, culture; nature and definition of language; overview of linguistic science and language with pedagogical applications.