Re: [LM_NET] Children's Lit still taught in Elem Ed programs?

[Christine Rayl <cjrayl@YAHOO.COM>]

I graduated from the University of Dallas in Irving TX
in 1992 and Children's Lit was a required course.
However, I do not know if it continues to be required
or not. I did notice that it now encompasses both
children and young adult which it did not do in the
past.
Several of our new teachers who are finishing up their
first year as teachers said they took a Children's Lit
course and loved it. However, it was not necessarily
required, as it depended upon their focus. (ELL/ESL,
Reading Difficulties, etc.)

Christine Rayl, librarian
Bowie Elementary
Grand Prairie TX 

cjrayl@yahoo.com

--- Lee Ann Marona <lawmarona@AOL.COM> wrote:

> Dear LM_NET,
> 
> Today I was assisting a university practicum student
> in finding some 
> multicultural books for one of her class
> assignments.  As we collected 
> books, I showed her, among other things, our
> multicultural Cinderella 
> stories. Then, as I paused our conversation to help
> a student, I asked 
> her to go take a look at the poster of the Coretta
> Scott King Award 
> winners.  She had never heard of either the
> multicultural Cinderellas 
> or the CSK award, so I asked her if the elem ed
> students were required 
> to take a children's lit class.  She replied that
> they are not (only 
> "Teaching Reading") then she proceeded to say that
> she has one 
> professor who is always encouraging his students to
> use "real" 
> literature in their teaching, and she really didn't
> know what he meant, 
> but that perhaps a children's literature class would
> help clarify.  In 
> the limited time I had with her, I tried my best to
> explain how real 
> lit contrasts with what is in the traditional basal.
>  This student, 
> otherwise, appears intelligent, articulate,
> well-dressed, etc., so is 
> this a common gap in our current university training
> that I've just not 
> heard verbalized before, or is this girl in
> particular just not 
> connecting the dots?
> 
> When I graduated with a degree in Elem Ed ('86),
> students in our 
> program were required to take a Children's
> Literature class; but, in 
> the last ten years, my alma mater has dropped that
> requirement due to 
> other required classes in ESE and ESOL which have
> squeezed out the lit 
> class.   I am wondering if this is the trend
> nationwide, and if so, 
> what we can do to make a greater impact on our local
> university teacher 
> training programs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lee Ann Marona
> Brentwood Elementary School
> Pensacola, FL 32505
> lmarona@escambia.k12.fl.us
> 
>
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