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Nogueron-Liu, Silvia

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Research

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  • In her instruction and scholarship, Dr. Nogueron-Liu aims focuses on supporting the ways current and future teachers can understand and apply evidence-based reading instruction and assessment for all learners. Her work particularly looks closely at how technology can facilitate reading development, analysis of reading curriculum and assessment.

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  • reading instruction and assessment, digital literacies, home-school family partnerships

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Teaching

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  • EDUC 2050 - Step Up to Social Justice Teaching
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Engages students in theory and practice for justice-centered teaching. This first required course for majors introduces the principles guiding the elementary program and provides opportunities for students to enact those principles in collaboration with children and teachers in public school classrooms. Meets weekly on CU campus (1.25 hours/week). Involves additional visits to local schools.
  • EDUC 3320 - Literacy in the Elementary Classroom 1
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2024
    Over the two-course sequence in literacy, students in the elementary major develop a foundational knowledge of core aspects of literacy learning and instruction and apply this knowledge in practica settings, working at individual, small group, and whole-class levels. Literacy 1 focuses primarily on the structure and components of equitable and robust reading instruction in K-5 classrooms, the five pillars of the reading process (phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension), and the analysis and implementation of evidence-based reading instruction practices, with some connections to writing development and assessment and writing instruction.
  • EDUC 4320 - Reading Instruction for Elementary Schools
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2020
    Participants will engage theories and processes of literacy learning, reading development, and equity-oriented teaching. Students will learn, develop, and enact instructional strategies and lessons to support all students' successful participation in a range of print and multimodal literacy practices embedded in reading instruction in elementary classrooms.
  • EDUC 4341 - Elementary Reading Assessment and Instruction
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
    Builds on knowledge and teaching practices introduced in EDUC 4320. Addresses five critical components of reading. Refines understanding of research-based practices for diagnostic assessments and intervention, and teaching strategies for elementary age learners. Prepares candidates to deliver a comprehensive reading curriculum in the elementary grades.
  • EDUC 4535 - Assessment for Bilingual Learners
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Introduce students to the theory, methods, practice, and problems in the testing and assessment of bilingual students at the classroom and large-scale level. Topics include the specification of English Learners as a student population and the assessment of their language proficiency and academic achievement. The course additionally addresses reliability, validity, and fairness in the testing of linguistically diverse populations.
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