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    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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    EDUCATION 472-4
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    DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: ENGLISH/LANGUAGE
    ARTS
    Summer Session, 1990
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    Instructor: Harold Derksen
    (July 3 - August 17)
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    Messages: 291-3395
    Monday-Wednesday
    13:00-16:50
    Location: MPX 8560
    OVERVIEW
    This course will examine the theoretical background for the various
    components of a language arts program and its practical application to
    a current language arts curriculum. Students will present theoretical
    issues, develop practical applications, and participate in a language arts
    process of reading, writing, speaking and listening.
    SAMPLE
    TOPICS
    What is Language Arts Teaching?
    Language Acquisition - Oral and Written
    What is Writing?
    Reading/Writing Connections
    What is Reading?
    Integrated Language Arts
    Assessment/Evaluation
    Teaching as Story Telling
    Response to Literature
    Computers in the Language Arts
    Language Arts & Project 2000
    COURSE REQUIREMENTS
    Individual
    1. Daily writing
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    10%
    2.
    Read aloud story (1)
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    10%
    3. Oral presentation (1)
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    10%
    4.
    Review of articles (2)
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    20%
    Group assignments
    1.
    Language Arts plans
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    25%
    2.
    Philosophy statement/s ?
    25%
    REQUIRED TEXTS
    Hansen, J. (1987). When writers read. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
    Egan, K. (1986). Teachin
    g
    as stor y
    tellin
    g : An alternative arrnroach to
    teaching and curriculum in the elementar
    y
    school. Ontario,
    Canada: Aithouse Press.

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