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FALL 1995
EDUC 383-4?
SPECIAL TOPIC: TEACHING LANGUAGE ARTS IN MULTILINGUAL,
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MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS
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(W1.00)
LOCATION: LANGLEY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY ?
K. TOOHEY
Course Description:
This course is intended to provide for pre-service teachers enrolled in the
Langley Professional Development Schools Project and for teachers working
in Langley schools the opportunity to consider how language arts is most
effectively taught when students come from a wide variety of linguistic and
cultural backgrounds. Participants will examine the following topics:
languages as meaning-making systems; pre-school language development;
orality and learning; learning to write/learning to read; classrooms as
environments fostering language/literacy
, development; evaluation of
language skills. Recognizing that our learners come from diverse
backgrounds and bring diverse talents to the classroom, examining these
topics should prepare teachers well for operating effective language arts
programs in elementary classrooms.
Pre-requisites (or special instructions): This
course is compulsory for all
student teachers in the Language Professional Development Schools Project.
In addition, teachers working in Langley Schools are welcome to attend. The
instructional site will be Langley Meadows Elementary School in Langley.
Course Requirements
a. Self Introduction l0%
b.
Learning Log
251
c. Observation ofLanguage Arts Unit 20%
d. Language Arts Unit
35%
e.
Statement of Personal Theory and Practice 10%
Required Texts
McGee, & Richgels, D.J. 1990. Literacy's beginnings: Supporting young
readers /
and writers. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Cooper, D. 1993.Literacy: Helping children construct meaning. Second
edition. Toronto: Houghton Mifflin.
'Crowhurst, Marion. 1994. Language and learning across the curriculum.
/ Scarborough: Allyn & Bacon.
Gibbons, P. 1991. Learning to learn in a second language. Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann