EDUC 7018 - Drawing/Writing and the New Literacy

3 cr.

For teachers in a Socratic, radically-constructivist, brain-based literacy program, this course addresses the challenge of teaching literacy skills so that they stick. The abilities to write and to read depend upon many skills, including the ability to pay attention, to extract information and to communicate information. These skills can be learned through drawing. When writing accompanies drawing, a double literacy develops both verbally and visually. The new literacy models encourage integrated brain function.