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Office: Buzzard 2208 Phone: 581-7885Early Childhood, Elementary and Middle Level Education DepartmentELE 3350: Language Arts in the Elementary SchoolsInstructor: Dr. Jeanne Okrasinski Office Hours: M,W – 10:00-11:30 : TH – 1:00-2:30 Office: Buzzard 2208 Phone: 581-7885 Class Meetings: T, TH – 8:00-9:15 Buzzard Hall 2440 Email: [email protected] Unit 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 semesterhour 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., (2009). Language arts: Patterns of practice (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 make sense 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- 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.Revised Spring, 2009/November 2009/May 2010Course Requirement Demonstrated Competencies Aligned StandardsJournal Article Review Performance 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 different stages 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 during class meetings, and support of peer classmates.IPTS 2, 7, 11ICTS 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:ECGrading Scale: 92%-100% = A 82%-91% = B 72%-81% = C62%-71% = DRevised Spring, 2009/November 2009/May 2010CORE ASSIGNMENTSCore Assignments Brief Description Approximate WeightJournal Article Review The students will do 2 critical reviews of articles associated with the teaching of language arts from a peer-reviewed journal.15x2 ptsWriting ProjectThe students will research a current educational tool, developing a formal writing of the topic using the expository style. The formal writing will be created according to the formal writing process as outlined by ISAT standards. The final paper will be three to five pages in length with appropriate APA standards.50 ptsThematic UnitThis thematic collection of lessons and activities will integrate multiple elementary disciplines and all the six language arts while concentrating on a specific theme. The objective is to


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