| Course Number: | EDU 5620 C09 |
| Instructor: | Laura Terry, B.Ed., BA.P., and P.G.C.SE. |
| Location: | Online via Canvas |
| Dates and Times: | Monday, November 5, 2018, through Monday, January 28, 2019 |
| Credits: | 3 graduate credits |
| Tuition: | $925 |
Note: Course payment or purchase order of $925, payable to RRWIB, is due at the time of registration. A purchase order number can be entered into the online registration form. Credit card payments can also be made online. Please mail check to the Castleton Center for Schools, Stafford Academic Center, Castleton University, 251 South Street, Castleton, VT 05735.
This course focuses on the importance of incorporating purposeful writing through the integration of multicultural children's literature. By gaining a sense of appreciation and acceptance for all individuals from diverse cultures, learners become genuinely self-motivated and engaged in these strong feelings! These feelings are the roots for learning opportunities where learners can freely and with purpose, communicate and connect their own thoughts, ideas, and feelings with those from other diverse cultures and backgrounds. Writing gives our learners a healthy and amazing outlet for expressing these strong feelings with purpose!
“Learning how people from other cultures do similar things in different ways can help children gain a sense of acceptance and appreciation for diverse cultures.” (Higgins, 2013)
Testimonials:
"This course, Using Multicultural Literature in your Writing Curriculum, has really taught me to think carefully about the text that I am selecting during my integrated writing block... Carefully selecting multicultural literature can help students relate to stories, to one another, and to me. It helped my students feel a deeper level of connection and understanding. This helps build a classroom culture of respect, trust and belonging. I have worked so hard to develop this classroom culture, but until we were having rich discussions and writing assignments using multicultural literature did I truly achieve this with all of my students, especially my students of a diverse cultural background. This discovery was very powerful for me and my students."
- K-5 Academic Interventionist
"By taking this course I have come to have a greater inspiration to educate myself in as many new authors, stories, cultures and traditions as possible... It has enriched me not only as a teacher, but also as a student... I was constantly reminded in taking this course how fun it is to be a part of learning something new and how powerful a children's book can be...they have so much more to give and students are so capable and eager to analyze and understand beyond the basic read through. As a result my teaching in the future will have a more culturally intentioned focus, and I myself am more excited to get back in the classroom and keep learning with my students!"
- 1st and 2nd Grade Teacher
Learning Outcomes:
You will also need to purchase the following multicultural children's literature books:
Sosu's Call by Meshack Asare
Sebastian's Roller Skates by Joan de Deu Prats
No Mirrors In My Nana’s House by Ysaye M. Barnwell
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
Tea Cakes for Tosh by Kelly Starling Lyons
There will also be articles provided by the instructor.
Laura Terry
(802) 849-2225 or (802) 324-4678
Bethany Sprague
(802) 468-1325