The professional portfolio presents a clear picture of pre-service professional growth and accomplishments in the complex teaching field. It demonstrates a teacher candidate's reflective and constructive professional performance. The performance includes, but is not limited to, the teacher candidate's actual teaching, reflecting on learning and teaching, developing and implementing lessons, conducting qualitative and quantitative research projects, and applying theory and research to practice. The portfolio includes extensive evidence of teaching and learning experience, including teaching philosophy, pedagogy, classroom management, and the integration of research and teaching. Professional portfolios will be reviewed by a committee of program faculty for approval.

This is the second course in the developmental English language sequence at the AOS level offered at NTID. Students will continue their journey toward becoming more proficient in the literacy skills that are necessary for success in a career-focused associate degree program at NTID. Topics in this course provide the context in which students review the basic components of English sentences, begin to develop skills for comprehending and using complex sentence elements, increase their English content word vocabulary to about 5000 words, learn to use independent reading strategies, and develop skills for writing paragraphs and longer compositions at a functional level of communication. Upon successful completion of this course, students will continue their reading and writing skill development in NENG-115 Literacies III.

This is the third course in the developmental English language sequence at the AOS level offered at NTID. Students will continue to develop their reading and writing skills to become more proficient in the literacy skills necessary for success in a career-focused associate degree program at NTID. Topics in this course provide the context in which students comprehend and use additional complex English sentence elements, increase their content word vocabulary to about 6000 words, evaluate reading tasks to select appropriate reading strategies, and expand their skills for writing paragraphs and longer compositions at a functional level of written communication.

Bridge to Academic Literacies introduces students to the basic conventions of academic literacies and composition in preparation for further study. This course provides students with activities to generate thoughts and ideas in their language repertoire, including ASL and English, for composing texts needed for academic success. Through translanguaging work, students will demonstrate their understanding of learned materials, create a thesis on an issue, develop support, and practice the composing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing. Students will understand the composing process as a means of producing a final product with a well-planned structure and well-informed content. Topics for course assignments include historical, social, and cultural context.