5 May 1980
    Date;
    SFU LIBRARY COLLECTION EVALUATION
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    (To be completed only for new course or program proposals.)
    1.
    Course No. and Name or
    Program:
    Contmporary issues
    and New
    Developments in
    Education 361-4
    Date to be
    offered: ?
    Fail
    1980
    2.
    Resources currently in collection:
    20 ?
    72
    Reading
    lists. No. and % of
    titles available
    Related materials in general
    collection:
    ?
    *
    Monographs:
    Serials Subscriptions:
    Backf ties:
    ?
    1
    ! ?
    :
    Other:
    3. Recommended additions to collection:
    DESK
    (indicate approx. no. of
    titles, vols.,
    date, as appropriate)
    Monographs:
    10-20 titles
    New serials subscriptions:
    Serials backf ties:
    Other (specify):
    Total
    TIMATED COS
    200.00
    200.00
    4.
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    Comments:
    *L-ibrary has adequate resources covering
    erng several related areas
    in Education. We are able to support this course with our
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    present collection
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    Library ?
    For acuity 1,eparcmenc
    Please find attached a new course proposal for Education 361-4 "Contemporary
    Issues and New Developments in Teaching". Please include it with your
    Faculty meeting papers for Monday, March 24th, 1980.
    H'4PORARY ISSUES AND NEW DEVE
    EDUCATION '361-4 C.
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    TEACHING ?
    LC3NTS IN
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    Rationale
    The continuing education of teachers, an ongoing concern for the past several
    decades, is receiving added attention as a result of declining school
    enrolment. Not only has the phenomenon of declining enrolment resulted
    in a static teaching population, but it has also produced a need for
    retraining of teachers.
    The Extended Studies Diploma Program in Education provides a vehicle for
    introducing new ideas into classrooms thereby addressing some of the
    problems resulting from a static teaching population. It also offers,
    to some degree, a means of retraining teachers to fill new roles within
    the schools.
    The Extended Studies Diploma at Simon Fraser University involves 30
    hours of approved upper division coursework. The intent is that students
    should identify a program of coursework as a condition of being accepted
    into the program. Experience has shown however, that for a student/teacher
    who has not taken a university course for the past several years, the task
    of selecting a viable program based on available coursework becomes a
    rather arbitrary exercise. It was with this problem in mind that the
    Undergraduate Programs Committee introduced on an experimental basis the
    course, Contemporary Issues and New Developments in Education. The course
    was intended to introduce students to new developments related to teaching
    both to provide a broadened perspective and also to enable students to be more
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    selective in their subsequent choice of coursework.
    1
    Experience with the
    course which has now been offered on five occasions has been that it does
    serve these two purposes. In addition, progressively the course has
    become a vehicle through which students develop skills in critical analysis
    and writing, equiping them to better handle subsequent coursework.
    The course proposal which follows introduces a new course, Education 361
    which is a regularization of the experimental course just described.
    It will be offered once each year as the introductory course for a special
    intake of students intending to pursue an Extended Studies Diploma.
    1. Enrolment in the course has been as follows.: (ki Campus 78-3 (25),
    Mt. Currie 79-1 (15), On Campus 79-3 (32), Kamloops 79-3 (18),
    Vernon 79-3 (21).'

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