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English 6510 - Recent Trends in English Education

Course Description An examination of current developments, issues, and research in the teaching of English in the secondary schools. Designated for the in-service tegeacher.

Instructor: Todd Finley

Fall 2000

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Time & Place

By definition, this Distance Education course will not meet on campus. However, there will be due date "windows" that I will explain later. Also, note that you are welcome to contact me at any time. Click for more information.

Required Texts:

  1. Sagor- How to Conduct Action Research
  2. Finkel- Teaching with Your Mouth Shut

  3. Also other readings assigned by the instructor

Requirements

  1. Participate in online threaded discussion.
  2. Complete an annotated bibliography of 10-15 recent articles related to an area of interest (e.g.,various aspects of the teaching of composition, literature, oral language; assessment; motivating the at-risk student; multiculturalism in the English curriculum, etc.)
  3. Design a teacher research project in which an instructional innovation identified through the course of compiling the annotate bibliography is implemented in the students' classrooms and the results of this study are documented and evaluated. Students who do not have access to a middle or high school classroom may instead conduct a thorough review of the literature on a problem in English/language arts and a suitable design for a classroom research project addressing the problem.