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EDUCATION

472-4

DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: ENGLISH & LANGUAGE ARTS

(Elementary Only)

Summer Session, 1987

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Instructor: ?

Dr. C. Mamchur

June 29 - ul'y47

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Office: ?

MPX 8628

Tuesdays & Thursdays ?

Phone: ?

291-3661

1:00-

4:50 ?

Location: ?

MPX 7500B

DESCRIPTION OF COURSE

This course will focus on a writing process approach to teaching reading and writing and

oral language in the classroom.

Students will be actively engaged in the process of writing and developing curriculum.

This is

not

a course in which materials will be cut, pressed and laminated.

This course will focus on the principles and practices which instill the love of learning and

independent thinking in the language arts classroom.

OBJECTIVES

This course will actively engage students in meeting these objectives.

1. Become familiar with these aspects of writing process:

a. focussing

b.

audience awareness

c.

rewriting

2. Complete three writing assignments to a point considered satisfactory by the

instructors.

3. Participate in a variety of prescribed drama activities.

4. Develop 3 drama activities in any subject area and grade of the student's choice.

5.

Examine measurement and evaluation in the language arts classroom.

6. Consider language arts as an interactive and personal process of developing thought

and language.

7. Develop strategies to making reading and writing and speaking relevant and natural and

powerful for the language and student.

8. Use knowledge of learning style to improve questioning strategies.

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OUTLINE OF TOPICS

1.

Writing Process

2.

Organic Teaching

3.

Drama

4.

Learning Styles - Questioning

5. Evaluation

6.

Relevancy in the Classroom

REQUIREMENTS

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attendance

- active participation in in-class activities

- complete three writing assignments

- complete three drama activities

- determine teaching/learning style

TEXTS

Teacher, Sylvia Ashton Warner. (Recommended)

Insights, Mamchur, Carolyn, OISE, Toronto, 1984. (Required)

A Writer Teaches Writing, Donald Murray, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1968.

(Recommended)

ADDITIONAL READINGS WILL

BE

PROVIDED AS HANDOUTS.