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Department of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Middle Level EducationELE 3350.002Language Arts in the Elementary SchoolsSpring 2008 Instructor: Daniel CarterLocation: BB 2441Time: T,R – 8:00-9:15Office: BB 2176Office Hours: M,W – 10:00-11:00 T,R – 12:00-1:00Telephone: Office – 581-7892 Home – 549-4959E-mail: [email protected] CEPS Theme: Educator as creator of effective educational environments – integrating diverse students, subjects, strategies, societies, and technologies.Catalog Course Description: Topics include objectives, research, teaching methods, and materials for teaching and evaluating the language arts. Field-based activities provided in conjunction with ELE 3000.Prerequisites & Notes: Concurrent enrollment in ELE 3280 and ELE 3000 or permission of department chair. 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 Text: Tompkins, G. E., (2005). Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Inc.Learning Model: Personal Systems Model – Developmental This model emphasizes self-development, personal awareness, and enhanced self-concept. It assumes that learning occurs when individuals assimilate new experiences into already existing cognitive structures. The model pays attention to individual perspectives and shapes education sothat students can better understand themselves, take responsibility for their own learning, and go beyond current developments in order to become stronger, more sensitive, and more creative. Information-Processing Model This model enhances student attempts to comprehend by acquiring and organizing data, sensing problems/generating solutions, and developing concepts. The model focuses on input, processing and output. As the content is taught, the teacher directs attention to the methods and materialsused to present the data, and has students focus on what is occurring as it is assimilated. This model provides the student with information while emphasizing concept attainment and hypothesis testing.Joyce, B., Weil, M., & Showers, B. (1992). Models of Teaching. (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Dispositions:Teacher candidates in the Department of EC/ELE/MLE will exhibit professional ethical practices, effective communication, sensitivity to diversity, and the ability to provide varied teaching practices evidenced in a supportive and encouraging environment.Course requirements and demonstrated competencies are aligned with the following standards:Illinois Professional Teaching Standards (IPTS) http://www.isbe.il.us/profprep/PDFs/ipts.pdfAssociation for Childhood Education International (ACEI) http://www.acei.org/Synopsis.htmNational Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) http://www.naeyc.org/accreditation/next_era.aspIllinois Core Language Arts Standards (ICLAS)http://www.isbe.net/profprep/CASCDvr/pdfs/24110_corelangarts_std.pdfIllinois Core Technology Standards (ICTS)http://www.isbe.net/profprep/CASCDvr?pdfs/24100_coretechnology.pdfOutcomes 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.Course Requirements Demonstrated Competencies Aligned StandardsJournal Article Review Performance includes analyzing professional articles and their implication to the teaching of language arts. The review writings will beevaluated by a rubric.IPTS 2, 7ICTS 1A, 2A, 2E, 5B, 7ICLAS 1, 2, 3NAEYC 3, 4a, 4b, 4cACEI 3.1, 3.3, 3.5Writing 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, 7ICLAS 1, 2, 3ACEI 1, 2.1, NAEYC 1, 3, and 4Integrated Thematic 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.IPTS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8ICLAS 1, 2, 3ACEI 1, 2.1, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4NAEYC 1, 3, 4, 5Multicultural Project The students will demonstrate strategies to select and use appropriate multicultural literature for the language arts classroom.IPTS 1, 2, 3, 5ICLAS 1, 2, 3ACEI 1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2NAEYC 1, 2, 3, 4Participation Performance includes presence and contribution during class meetings, and support of peer classmates.IPTS 2, 7, 10, 11ICLAS 4.5NAEYC 3, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5ACEI 3.1,3.5Exams The students will demonstrate their content and pedagogical knowledge of language arts by completing assessment tools.IPTS 2, 7, 11ICLAS 4.5NAEYC 3, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5ACEI 3.1, 3.5CoreAssignmentsBrief Description Point ValueJournal ArticleReviewThe students will do a critical review of an article associated with theteaching of language arts from a peer-reviewed journal.20 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. Incorporated within the unit will be an attention to


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