This course examines the role and responsibility of the elementary educator as an advocate for, and educator of, students with diverse learning needs. Methods and structure to enable educators to understand, engage, and respond to the challenges presented within an academically diverse classroom are addressed. Special focus is given to research and applications for facilitating emergent literacies and social, emotional and behavioral development.

Emphasizes the development of understandings, dispositions, and skills necessary to effectively participate in P-12 reform discussion and decision-making. The course focuses on foundational issues related to a) the legitimacy of public education, b) accountability-based national reform efforts, and c) the goals and content of school curricula. This on-line course is required for the M.Ed. in Educational Studies or elective for other degrees.

Training to write more skillfully and to read with more appreciation and discernment. Frequent individual conferences for every student.

In this short-term study abroad experience, students will gain an appreciation of Ireland's many challenges of self- and other identity related to its location, conquest, colonization, emigration, religions, and recent global immigration. Contemporary course selections reference people (including Irish Americans) and events brought to life on site in Dublin. The course includes UNH guest speakers from English, history, and anthropology; Dublin -based speakers when available. Offers Irish American students research into their genealogy. Students must have a 3.25 GPA and 32 credits. Special Fee.