SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Spring Semester 2000
Teaching
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Children
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EDUC
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Minority
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Language
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Dr.
Office:
Kelleen
MPX
Toohey
8544
Backgrounds in Elementary Classrooms
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Tel:
291-4418
EO1.00
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E-mail: toohey@sfu.ca
Tuesdays
16:30-20:20
PREREQUISITE
60 credit hours
This course is intended to provide you the opportunity to consider how effective elementary
school curriculum and instruction is organized when students come from a wide variety of
linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Participants will examine the following topics: languages as
meaning-making systems; pre-school language development; orality and learning; learning to
write/learning to read; classrooms as environments fostering language/ literacy development;
evaluation of language skills. Recognizing that our learners come from diverse backgrounds and
bring diverse talents to the classroom, examining these topics should prepare teachers well for
operating effective instructional programs in elementary classrooms.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Statement of issues and concerns 10%
2. Book review 25%
3.
Classroom observation 25%
4. Final term paper or action research proposal 40%
READINGS:
K. Toohey:
Learning English at school: identity, social relations and classroom practice.
SFU
Custom Courseware.
1 of:
• C. Faltis.
Joinfostering.
• P. Gibbons.
Learning to learn in a second language.
1 of:
• V.G. Paley.
You can't say you can't play.
• V.G. Paley.
The girl with the brown crayon.
• V.G. Paley.
White teacher.
• V.G. Paley.
Kwanzaa and me.
