Teaching Current Events: Benefits and Classroom Strategies
Connect your classroom to the world using eight strategies for teaching current events using local and world news stories.
Karen A. Erickson, Ph.D.
Karen A. Erickson, Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. Her focus is on understanding the best ways to assess and teach reading and writing to children with the most severe disabilities. As a special education teacher, Dr. Erickson has worked to support students with a range of disabilities in a variety of classroom settings, particularly students who do not use speech as their primary means of communication.
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