PadmarajuSpring 2009Early Childhood, Elementary and Middle Level Education DepartmentELE 3350(005): Language Arts in the Elementary SchoolsCredit Hours: 02 Professor: Kiran Padmaraju, Ph.D.Office: 1322 Buzzard Hall Office Hours: MW: 1:00 – 3:00 pm (Inside the Reading Center) R: 2:00 to 3:00 pmPhone: Office – (217) 581 7879 Email: [email protected] Home – (217) 531 8955Class Meetings: 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm MW Location: Buzzard Hall 2160Unit Theme: Educator as Creator of Effective Educational Environments: Integrating diverse students, subjects, strategies, societies, and technologies.Catalog Course Description: Objectives, research, teaching methods, and materials for teaching and evaluating the language arts. Field-based activities will be provided in conjunction with ELE 3000.Prerequisites & Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment in ELE 3280 and ELE 3000, or permission of department chair. For middle school option, consult advisor for course sequence. University Teacher Education requirements apply and department requirements for enrollment must be met, including an expectation of second semester Junior standing.Course Purpose: Recent literature is emphasizing the relationship between reading and other language arts; therefore, a two semester hour course in language arts will allow prospective teachers the opportunity to read and utilize the current research and teaching techniques expected of a competent teacher.Course Textbook:Tompkins, G.E., (2005). Language arts: Content and teaching strategies (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Inc.Teaching Model: The Information-Processing Models- Information-processing models emphasize ways of enhancing the human being’s innate drive to makesense of the world by acquiring and organizing data, sensing problems and generating solutions to them, and developing concepts and language for conveying them.Joyce, B., Weil, M., & Calhoun, E. (2009). Models of teaching. (8th ed.). Boston: Pearson. Dispositions: Teacher candidates in the department of EC/ELE/MLE will exhibit professional ethical practices, effective communication, sensitivity to diversity, the ability to provide varied teaching practices evidenced in a supportive and encouraging atmosphere for learning. Live Text Assessment Requirement: For those classes with Live Text or Practicum- If the portfolio or Live Text requirements are rated, by the instructor, to have been completed in less than a satisfactory manner then no more than a "D" may be earned in the class regardless of the number of points earned.StandardsCourse requirements and demonstrated competencies are aligned with the following standards:- Illinois Professional Teaching Standards (IPTS) http://www.isbe.net/profprep/PDFs/ipts.pdf - Technology Standards for all Illinois Teachers (ICTS) http://www.isbe.net/profprep/CASCDvr/pdfs/24120_coretechnology.pdf Revised November, 2008PadmarajuSpring 2009- Language Arts Standards for all Illinois Teachers (ICLAS) http://www.isbe.net/profprep/CASCDvr/pdfs/24110_corelangarts_std.pdf - Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) http://www.acei.org/Synopsis.htm- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) http://www.naeyc.org/accreditation/next_era.asp Outcomes Specific to ELE 3350: The students will be able to:- Demonstrate a mastery of basic skills in language arts.- Demonstrate knowledge of the nature of language systems (phonological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic).- Demonstrate an understanding of the developmental philosophy in relation to language arts (listening,speaking, writing, reading, viewing, visual representing).- Understand language acquisition and development.- Describe the role of language arts (i.e., listening, oral expression, and written expression components)in the curriculum.- Identify appropriate instructional techniques in a multicultural setting.- Design instruction to develop and utilize the cognitive and affective processes by which pupils learn.CourseRequirementDemonstrated Competencies Aligned StandardsJournal Article ReviewPerformance includes analyzing professional articles and their implication to the teaching of language arts. The review writings will be evaluated by a rubric.IPTS 2, 7ICTS 1A, 2A, 2E, 5B, 7ICLAS 1, 2, 3NAEYC 3, 4a, 4b, 4cACEI 3.1, 3.3, 3.5Dispositions:PEP, EC, SDEWriting Project Performance includes demonstration of writing skills and the writing process by going through the differentstages of the writing process to come up with a final piece of writing.IPTS 1 and 7ICTSICLAS 1, 2, and 3ACEI 1, 2.1, NAEYC 1, 3, and 4Dispositions:EC, PTSLThematic Unit - The students will demonstrate the ability to design a multidisciplinary teaching unit prepared to be used in a classroom designed on a selected theme and incorporating multiple language arts, lesson plans and content areas.- Multicultural Project: The students will demonstrate strategies to select and use appropriate multicultural literature for the language arts classroom.IPTS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8ICTSICLAS 1, 2, and 3ACEI 1, 2.1, 2.8,3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, and 4NAEYC 1, 3, 4 and 5Dispositions:PTSL, EC, SDEParticipation Performance includes presence and contribution IPTS 2, 7, 11Revised November, 2008PadmarajuSpring 2009during class meetings, and support of peer classmates. ICTS ICLAS 4.5NAEYC 3, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5ACEI 3.1,3.5Dispositions:PEP, EC, SDEExams - The students will demonstrate their content and pedagogical knowledge of language arts by completing assessment tools.- The students will demonstrate handwriting abilities through the completion of the Handwriting ProficiencyIPTS 2, 7, 11ICTS ICLAS 4.5NAEYC 3, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5ACEI 3.1, 3.5Dispositions:ECADDITIONAL INFORMATION:A. Assignments/Projects:Assignments Brief Description PointsJournal ArticleReviewThe students will do a critical review of an article associated with the teaching of language arts from a peer-reviewed journal.30 Writing ProjectEach student will go through all the stages of the writing process over the course of two weeks to put together a children’s book. A publishingkit will be used to get a hard-bound published copy of your book. Creativity is the key to this assignment. The more creative and interesting the final product, the higher the grade will be. 50 Thematic Unit This thematic collection of lessons and activities will integrate multiple elementary disciplines and all the six language arts while