Credit: This USBE Canvas course is ONLY available for graded SUU higher education credit (3 credits). While the courses are tuition-free, there is a required recording fee payable to SUU (currently $23 per credit hour). To receive credit, you must also register and pay for the course through SUU. Upon completion of the course, instructors will submit grades through SUU and then credit will be posted on a SUU transcript.

You will receive further SUU registration information within 1-2 weeks o

Credit: This USBE Canvas course is ONLY available for graded SUU higher education credit (3 credits). While the courses are tuition-free, there is a required recording fee payable to SUU (currently $23 per credit hour). To receive credit, you must also register and pay for the course through SUU. Upon completion of the course, instructors will submit grades through SUU and then credit will be posted on a SUU transcript.

You will receive further SUU registration information within 1-2 weeks of registering for the course on Midas.

You will receive a USBE Canvas course invitation via email a few days before the course start date.

Description: This 12-week online USBE CANVAS course has been designed for active educators who are working on fulfilling the requirements for a specific Secondary ELA endorsement. While the courses are not completely self-paced, they are asynchronous. Coursework unlocks weekly, so that the participants engage in the course material as a cohort, one week at a time. Educators can work on the course material when convenient within each week of the course. PLEASE NOTE: You may only register for two of these endorsement courses at a time.

During these 12-week courses teachers will explore “classroom ready” strategies that will support students to understand text, analyze the structure of the text, and distinguish important ideas while rejecting less important information. All of this must be then synthesized into a short, succinct, organized, well-crafted piece of prose. Imagine the effect of these skills on reading comprehension, all kinds of writing: especially writing on demand, and vocabulary building. Teachers will gain knowledge on how to integrate these strategies with the Utah Core Standards for English Language Arts. Participants will engage in learning tasks that model high yielding comprehension strategies in action and develop lessons in which they employ some of the strategies learned back in their own classrooms.

Registration Questions: Please email brenda.mcmurtrey@schools.utah.gov.

Course Content or Endorsement Questions: Please email naomi.watkins@schools.utah.gov