Reading Instruction - Summer classes begin

The summer semester officially began for me yesterday. I had my first session of a class that is known by two different names and has two different course numbers. For some, it is LIS5441 - Leadership in Reading. For others, it is RED5337 - Supervision and Instruction in Secondary School Reading. It's the same class meeting at the same time with the same professor - there were just two ways to register for it.

Here are the course descriptions (again - even though it's the same class, depending on whether you registered for RED5337 or LIS5441 you got different descriptions):

RED5337:

Application of the reading process to the secondary school curriculum. Diagnostic procedures and instructional strategies useful in developing school reading programs.

LIS5441:

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for informational professionals to provide collaborative leadership in reading across the K-12 spectrum. Special emphasis is placed on how reading for achievement and reading motivation can successfully be reconciled as essential components of information literacy.

It sounds like it will be an interesting class, and the professor sounds very knowledgeable about the topic. This is only her second semester teaching a class for FSU (she taught this class last summer too), but she has 25 years teaching/school library experience in elementary, middle, and high school and is currently working as a middle school librarian.

The work load doesn't seem like it will be too intense for this class, which is good, since after looking at just the first week's worth of assignments for my UoP PSYCH538 class, I'm already stressed out - already a paper due the first week. I hope that once the class officially "starts" next week, all of the assignments will be posted rather than just the first week's, so I can space the work out as much as possible.

I hope both of these summer classes will help prepare me for the third FTCE test I need to take, Professional Education, because I have never learned a lot of the content listed in the exam prep book I have for that test.