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Education 385-4
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Special Topics: Whole Language
Intersession, 1988 ?
Instructor: ?
Sue Montabello
May 9- June l7 ?
Office Phone: 291-3787
Tuesdays and Thursdays ? Home Phone: 420-2745
5:30 - 9:20 p.m.
Location: CC 6125
PREREQUISITE:
Must be a practising teacher
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed for teachers who wish to explicate the underpinnings of
'whole language' approaches to literacy.
Education 385
will provide an
opportunity for teachers to examine the theoretical foundations and the
practices that issue forth from the 'whole language' philosophy.
The course will investigate insights from recent research in language learning
and their implications for the 'whole language' classroom. This will provide a
context in which you will examine and reflect upon: your beliefs regarding
learning and teaching language; your role as teacher in engaging children in
their search for meaning; the means by which to enhance language learning in
the classroom.
Education 385
is designed so as to enable you to reflect on your own
classroom experience and plan ways in which you may test and try new ideas
in the future; and to, assist you to develop a new repetoire of methods and
materials that will enhance language learning in the classroom.
The course will comprise a broad range of experiences: lectures; workshops
and demonstrations; seminars; individualized tasks; small-group work.
Some of the topics include:
*language learning and literacy;
*current issues and trends in language learning;
*children's literature in the classroom;
*creating an environment to enhance language learning;
*the reading-writing processes;
*aural.. oral aspect of language - some dimensions of interaction;
fostering and developing listening and speaking;
*integrating language - helping children make the links;
*the teacher's role in the 'whole language' classroom;
*designing 'whole language' curriculum;
*evaluation in the 'whole language' classroom.
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
*Attendance and participation in all aspects of the course
*Completion of assigned professional readings
*Completion of assigned children's novel readings
*Completion of brief oral and/or written assignments
REQUIRED
TEXTS:
*Jane Hansen. 1987. When Writers Read. Heinemann. (paperback)
*Lucy McCormick Calkins. 1986. The Art of Teaching Writing.
Heinmeann (paperback)
* Margaret Meek. 1988. How Texts Teach What Readers Learn.
Thimble Press (paperback)
*Liz Waterland. 1985. Read with Me: An Apprenticeship Approach
to Reading. Thimble Press (paperback)
*Jim Trelease. 1985. The Read Aloud Handbook. Penguine.
(paperback)
