This course is designed for graduate students who have no previous formal college-level course work in the teaching of reading. Open only to students who have never taken a reading course or have not taken a reading course in five years. Contemporary children's literature will be studied in regard to the various genres and styles of writing each type. Particular emphasis on experience with effective techniques in adult-student interaction and communication in an open, sensitive, and realistic manner. Identify and study source material suitable for environmental programs for elementary school children.
Students prepare program projects.
Each student must have access to a 35mm camera. The use of the computer to improve learning and teaching with tool programs such as word processors, spreadsheets, record keeping programs, tests and instructional material generators, telecommunications, and database programs. Includes discussion, and use of these programs on microcomputers in a laboratory. Design projects to use LOGO in the elementary classroom. The historical and legal foundations for bilingual education, models of bilingual education, and research findings regarding the effectiveness of bilingual education will be examined.