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Education

472-14

Designs for Learning: English and Language Arts

ELEMENTARY

SUMMER SESSION, 1983

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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Ted Hippie

Tuesday & Thursday 8:30 - 12:20

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LOCATION: on campus

Course Objectives: The overarching objective of this course is to help

you become as good a teacher of the language arts as you can be. To this

global end we shall focus on the various elements of the language arts--

reading, writing, listening, speaking and viewing--and on how better to

present them to young children and to involve young children with them.

Planning, motivating, presenting, and evaluating, as these strategies

relate to the teaching of language arts, will be important focuses of the

course.

Course Activities: There will be, within the course itself, numerous

opportunities for you to pursue interests of your own in developing teach-

ing methods and materials related to instruction in the language arts.

But there will additionally be activities that all will pursue, with some

of these to be shared among members of the class; All will prepare a

unit (comprised of a series of daily lesson plans, a set of objectives, a

method of evaluating student achievement); all will develop a poetry/

picture file; all will engage in classroom oral and written activities

pertinent to the language arts; all will read and evaluate selected

childrens' books.

Course Requirements: A unit of instruction will be required of all students

in sufficient copies so that all class members receive copies of each unit.

Annotations of articles in selected journals will be required. Finally,

there will be a major paper of some dimension covering one or more aspects

of the teaching of the English language arts.

It is expected, too, that all students will read and respond to the text;

Moffett and Wagner, :Student-Centered Language Arts and Reading, K-13: A

Handbook for Teachers, Third Edition, 1983. Houghton Mifflin and Company.