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EDUCATION 472-4
DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: LANGUAGE ARTS
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(Elementary)
SUMMER SESSION 1980 ?
INSTRUCTOR: BEV TERRY
Monday and Wednesday, 12:30 - 4:30
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LOCATION: Campus
This course is offered to students and practicing teachers who wish to explore
the curriculum area and approach to learning called the Language Arts. The
course is designed to introduce you to planning for learning, creating learning
environments, and developing strategies, techniques, and materials in the
Language Arts in the elementary school.
Experiences in Language Arts will be provided through workshop presentations,
seminars, individualized tasks and group activities. The topics covered will
include:
* curriculum development with specific reference to the
Language Arts -- diagnosis of needs, setting of objectives,
planning and sequence, implementation, evaluation;
• aural-oral aspects of the Language Arts -- fostering and
developing listening and speaking; drama, media;
• reading - instructional approaches, materials, and programs;
children's literature;
• writing - fostering and developing written expression; tools
and techniques; :converitionin writing (including spelling,
punctuation, etc.); grammar; usage;
• thinking: planning for creative learning;
• integration of Language Arts and the total curriculum.
Students will be required to choose a curriculum project for in-depth independent
study. Through the project, the student will explore the theoretical background
of the chosen topic by writing a discussion paper and the practical classroom
application by making a project presentation in class.
TEXT: (recommended)
James Moffett, Betty Jane Wagner, Student Centred Language Arts & Reading
K-13, Houghton-Mufflin, 2nd rev. edn. 1976.
Course outline: PY)C 47-4
Designs for Learning: English (Elementary)
Individualized Learning in the Language Arts
Helen Bumphrey
Together we will examine and question some of our basic assumptions
about children and learning, and in this way find out where we are and become
acquainted with each other. Each student will be encouraged to determine
his own goals and competencies to be achieved in this course. To aid teachers
in these plans, we will explore a wide variety of ways to individualize in
different classroom situations. There will be sample materials, professional
books, teacher-made tapes describing specific programs, films, as well as oppor-
tunities for private planning sessions with visiting teachers proficient in
using this approach.
While the beginning focus will be on Language Arts, this course will
cut across subject lines in order to help us develop a more integrated and
child-centered approach.