Re: Course names help

["Mary Tigner-Rasanen" <mtr.listserves@marylily.org>]

Mary - what will your reading course be, exactly?

mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Dovey" <mgdovey@comcast.net>
To: <middle-lit@interversity.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [middle-lit] Course names help


> 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
> > K-12 Writing & Literacy  Consultant
> >
> > kruchma@aol.com
> >
> > P.O. Box 561
> > Williamston, MI  48895
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> >
> >
> > "If education is to be done expertly, it must  be done by the teachers
> > themselves who as experts use their own knowledge and  understandings to
> > define in
> > particular pedagogic situations the problems that  are worth solving and
> > soluble....education cannot be exercised mechanistically  or according to
> > prescribed
> > programs and algorithms." (p. 33)
> >
> > Donna H.  Kerr in The Ecology of School Renewal, John I. Goodlad, Ed. 
> > (1987)
> >
> >
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