C01ITTE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE
PROPOSAL FORM
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1. Calendar Information
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Department: ?
Education
Abbreviation Code: EDUC.
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Course Number: 361
Title of Course:
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Contemporary Issues and New
Calendar Description of Course: Thisourse,
Extended Studies Diploma Program, provides a
current issues in teaching.
Nature of Course
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lecture/seminar
Credit-Hours:
4
Vector:____
Developments in Teaching
intended for students entering the
survey of new developments and
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Prerequisites (or special instructions):
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped frok the calendar if this course is
approved:
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None
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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The organization of the course will vary somewhat from year to
year depending
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the availabilityof Facu'ty and changes in the field of teaching?
that canbe expected to emertshould be reflected in the course. In order to
insure that the course adequately reflects the pluralistic nature of our Faculty, it is
proposed that the course outline be presented to the Undergraduate Programs Committee
each time the course is offered. A sample outline of the course is appended.
4.
Budgetaryand Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:•
Faculty
Staff
Library
Audio Visual
Space
Equipmnt
5.
Approval
Date:
Dapartmcnt Chairman.
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Dean ?
Chairman, SCUS
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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 Program as approved by Senate 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 in six 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 selective
in their subsequent choice of coursework. 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 have developed skills in critical analysis and
writing. This aspect of the course has effectively been one of retraining
so that students can handle subsequent coursework more effectively.
The course proposal which follows Introduces a new course, Education
361 ihich 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.
Extended Studies Diploma in Education
Students entering the EXD Program in Education can take one of two routes.
The first is to follow an individual program in which they identify a set
of courses related to their professional heeds, which are submitted for
approval to the Director of Undergraduate Programs. This is the route
proposed in the original document approved by Senate. A second route
which was introduced by the Undergraduate Programs Committee in 1979
was that of a special intake of students who would enrol in the same course
and delay selection of subsequent coursework for up to one semester.
To date the majority of the students in EXD have followed the second route
as shown below.
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Students Currently Enrolled in the Extended
Studies Diploma Program in Education
Total enrollment - 96
Number who entered on an individual program - 28
Number who entered during a special intake - 30
Breakdown for special intakes: (Ed. 489)
Campus Fall
'78 - 24
Campus Fall
'79 -
campus - 16
Vernon
Fall
'79 - ?
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of those 30 are
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.D.Kamloops - 6
Kamloops Fall
'79 -
Vernon - 8
It should be noted that approximately R5 of those students who have
entered the special intakes have continued to pursue coursework at
S.F.U. Mine students have enrolled in graduate courses and an
examination of their grades show that they perform about On par with
graduate students themselves.
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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
FOR PRES EN TATIONS
Sept. II
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13
18 - 20
25 (Su)
26 (Kam.)
27 (Vern.)
Oct. 2 - 4
9 - Ti
16 - 18
23
(SRI)
24 (Kam.)
25 (Vern.)
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Nov. I
Nov.
6 (sFu)
7 (Yam.)
8 (hem.)
13-15
• 20 - 22
27 (sFu)
28 (Kam.)
29 (Vern.)
Dec.
4 - 6
II - 13
Introduction
Kazepides - What is an issue?
ithat is a development?
Conceptualization in which to view developments
Gibbons - Self—education
Auerbach - Learning
disabilities
Gibbons - Self—education
Stafford - Analysis of teaching
Tuinman - A new look at literacy
Dawson -
iducation and
self—awareness
Kirchner - 1ovement education
Open
Kirchner
- Movement education
McAllister - Teaching for thinking
Sha
p son -
Mul ticulturalism
in education
Shannon -
ditto
Prock - Learning disabilities
McClaren
- Environmental education
Gehlbach
- Early childhood
education
Prock -
Learning disabilities
Kirchner
- Movement education
Open
Course debrief
Evaluation
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