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EDUCATION 472-4

DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: LANGUAGE ARTS

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(Elementary)

SUMMER SESSION 1980 ?

INSTRUCTOR: BEV TERRY

Monday and Wednesday, 12:30 - 4:30

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LOCATION: Campus

This course is offered to students and practicing teachers who wish to explore

the curriculum area and approach to learning called the Language Arts. The

course is designed to introduce you to planning for learning, creating learning

environments, and developing strategies, techniques, and materials in the

Language Arts in the elementary school.

Experiences in Language Arts will be provided through workshop presentations,

seminars, individualized tasks and group activities. The topics covered will

include:

* curriculum development with specific reference to the

Language Arts -- diagnosis of needs, setting of objectives,

planning and sequence, implementation, evaluation;

• aural-oral aspects of the Language Arts -- fostering and

developing listening and speaking; drama, media;

• reading - instructional approaches, materials, and programs;

children's literature;

• writing - fostering and developing written expression; tools

and techniques; :converitionin writing (including spelling,

punctuation, etc.); grammar; usage;

• thinking: planning for creative learning;

• integration of Language Arts and the total curriculum.

Students will be required to choose a curriculum project for in-depth independent

study. Through the project, the student will explore the theoretical background

of the chosen topic by writing a discussion paper and the practical classroom

application by making a project presentation in class.

TEXT: (recommended)

James Moffett, Betty Jane Wagner, Student Centred Language Arts & Reading

K-13, Houghton-Mufflin, 2nd rev. edn. 1976.

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Course outline: PY)C 47-4

Designs for Learning: English (Elementary)

Individualized Learning in the Language Arts

Helen Bumphrey

Together we will examine and question some of our basic assumptions

about children and learning, and in this way find out where we are and become

acquainted with each other. Each student will be encouraged to determine

his own goals and competencies to be achieved in this course. To aid teachers

in these plans, we will explore a wide variety of ways to individualize in

different classroom situations. There will be sample materials, professional

books, teacher-made tapes describing specific programs, films, as well as oppor-

tunities for private planning sessions with visiting teachers proficient in

using this approach.

While the beginning focus will be on Language Arts, this course will

cut across subject lines in order to help us develop a more integrated and

child-centered approach.