Re: Course names help

[Mary Dovey <mgdovey@comcast.net>]

Mary Anna, 
The thing is, we want to  "unblock" in order to give our students a grade in
the development of their reading, and of their writing. Right now, they get
a CA grade that doesn't give anyone enough info about their progress in
either of the main subjects. (Communication Depts. in our part of the world
involve everything--media literacy as well as the things you've mentioned.)
Thanks.

On 3/5/08 7:59 PM, "Kruchma@aol.com" <Kruchma@aol.com> wrote:

> Mary,
>  
> Why not call your blocked classes English Language Arts?   This is the usual
> term for those studies which invite students to participate in  activities and
> lessons involving reading, writing, thinking, listening,  speaking, and
> viewing.  Communication Arts is an older  designation for such classes as
> speech, 
> debate, theater, and journalism, in my  experience.
>  
> Best of luck, and let us know what you decide.
>  
> Mary Anna
>  
> Mary Anna Kruch, Ph.D.
> President-Elect,  Michigan Council of Teachers of English
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> 
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> particular pedagogic situations the problems that  are worth solving and
> soluble....education cannot be exercised mechanistically  or according to
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> programs and algorithms." (p. 33)
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> Donna H.  Kerr in The Ecology of School Renewal, John I. Goodlad, Ed.  (1987)
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