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EDUCATION 461-4 TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENT

IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

Instructor: ?

John V. Trivett

Time: ?

Thursdays - 16:30-21:00 commencing January 10, 1974.

Location: ?

Faculty of Education Building

Textbooks: ?

Teaching Reading with Words in Colour - C. Gattegno

Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools: The Silent Way

- C. Gattegno

What We Owe Children - C. Gattegno

(Students are advised to wait until the first class meeting before purchas-

ing books)

The course is designed for teachers and prospective elementary and secondary

teachers. The emphases of the course will be On:

- the study of the learning of reading on the principles inherent in The

Subordination of Teaching to Learning. (in particular, the use of the

words in colour materials.)

- some general study of the learning of language.

- the learning of Spanish, devoting several sessions to acquiring basics

of speech and reading.

- the learning of Mathematics as it is appropriate to the above emphases,

all of which use algebraic approaches.

Students will be expected to work in their own schools with some aspects

of the course. The style in which meetings will be conducted is one in which

personal commitment and involvement are priorities.

For further information, please contact John Trivett at 291-3166 (SFU)

or 922-6683.(home)