Course: Educ 472-04

Designs

for Learning: Language

Arts (Elementary)

Calendar Descript4on: Planning for Learning; Creating Learning

Environments; Developing Teaching Strategies and Materials

Course information: ?

Instructor

B. C. Bondar

Dates

July 2-Aug.8 I M,W

Times

14:30-17:20

12:30-14:20

M,W 8:30-11:20

F ?

8:30-10:20

Course Proposition:

The curtain raiser of this course will overview the development of

learning and comprehension in relation to language growth and fluency

(with special reference to reading, writing and spelling). Material from

ALL content areas will then be considered target and fair game for

developing language arts to reinforce learning and relevance. Content matter

will be used as language material;

literature, as content matter.

Having ransacked the school curricula, Real World materials will be

examined and their school use planned as language arts'. So, SAVE

boxtops! comicbooks! bubblegum cards! labels! wrappers! broken

filmstrips! racing forms! menus! paper planes! With all this stuff and

whatnot, learning centres will be planned for totally student-initiated

programs. Then, having saved and shaped education for the future,

nothing will remain except to establish evaluation criteria for texts,

teachers and kids (with special reference to miscellaneous readability

scales and tests, miscue analysis and library reading lists).