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EDUCATION 486-4

SPECIAL TOPICS: PLANNING FOR THE INDIVIDUAL LEARNER

REGULAR SUMMER SEMESTER, 1984

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INSTRUCTOR: Heather Buchan

THURSDAYS 5:30 - 9:20

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LOCATION: On Campus

DESCRIPTIcN:

In this course, students will become familiar with a framework for

observing and assessing pupils' developmental, emotional, and learning needs,

and a process for addressing these needs in the classroom. The instructor's

approach is based on the beliefs that:

a)

each learner has different needs, arising from many factors

such as physical, emotional and social development, background

experience, and home and community life;

b) learning will be more effective when the teacher attends to the

needs of the whole child in curriculum planning.

Therefore, this course will emphasize planning for individual students,

within the framework of Louis Raths' Needs Theory.

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Each student in this course will:

1.

Become familiar with

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Needs Theory;

2. Apply the needs theory to a variety of case studies;

3. Learn and practice processes for;

a)

collecting and organizing information about individual pupils;

b)

developing working hypotheses;

c)

planning curriculum strategies;

d) implementing and evaluating curriculum plans;

e)

interacting supportively with pupils.

EYPECI'ATIONS:

1. Attendance and participation in all course activities.

2. Satisfactory completion of course assignments, including

a)

case studies

b)

curriculum tasks

c)

interactions tasks

3. Completion of related readings.

Specific requirements for this course will be outlined in the first

session.

READINGS:

1.

Raths, Louis.

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eting the Needs of children. Columbus, Ohio, Charles B.

Merrill, 1972

2.

Wassermann, S. (ed). Kids: Handbook of Related Readings (available from

Instructor)

3.

Selections from a bibliography provided during the course; other relevant

books and articles.