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EDUCATION 472-4

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DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS

(ELEMENTARY)

Intersession, 1988

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Instructor: Jean Warburton

May 9 - June 17

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Phone: ?

291-3787

Wednesday/Friday, 8:30 - 12:20

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Location: ?

MPX 7610

OBJECTIVES;

This course is designed for beginning teachers who wish to examine

fundamental principles underlying the Language Arts curriculum and

explore means of selecting and developing materials, strategies and

techniques to create a rich learning environment for their students. The

course will contain theoretical and practical components, and students will

be expected to:

- demonstrate an understanding of child development and curriculum

goals in designing appropriate learning activities;

- examine various methods for developing the communication skills of

reading, writing, listening and speaking;

- critically examine resources for motivating and/or teaching language

skills;

- examine the role of the teacher in Language Arts Education.

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

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child development and the acquisition of language;

- the Language Arts curriculum - planning for and evaluating student

learning;

- reading instruction, comprehension, vocabulary development;

- the writing process - personal, literary and public writing; spelling and

language conventions;

- aural/oral language -- drama, use of audio-visual resources

- children's literature, story telling;

- resources and materials -- texts, films, records;

- the computer in the language arts classroom.

REQUIREMENTS:

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attendance, participation and assigned readings: 15%

- completion of projects:

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35%

- short written assignments:

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50%

REQUIRED TEXT:

Temple, Charles, & Wallace Gillet, Jean.

Language Arts: Learning Processes