[Englmajors] Community Literacy Program for Winter 2008

[Melissa Wensel]

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Subject: [Advisers] Community Literacy Program for Winter 2008
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: esoneill at u.washington.edu


Are you a UW student interested in helping children succeed in school? 
Getting real world experience to help you choose a major or career 
direction? Learning more about challenges and opportunities in public 
education?  Improving your research, writing, and collaborative learning 
and presentation skills?  Participating in a small collaborative 
program?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, the Community 
Literacy Program (CLP) may be just what you're looking for.

HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS: Community Literacy Program (CLP) is an 8 credit 
program
linking two courses: English 198A and Education 401C. In English 198A you'll
meet twice weekly on campus, MW 10:30-12:20, in a writing-intensive seminar
focused on effective methods of working with elementary school children, on
some central challenges and opportunities for public education, and on 
ways to
understand and be meaningfully involved in the lives of children and 
schools.
In EDUC 401, you'll put what you learn on campus into action, volunteering
(4-5 hours a week, on a schedule you arrange) in one of our partner Seattle
public elementary schools: Alternative Elementary II, Olympic Hills 
Elementary
or The New School @ Columbia.  CLP alumni serve as undergraduate Head
Tutors/Peer Mentors at each of our partner schools, and, along with the
instructor, are available to support CLP students in all aspects of the
program.

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: The Community Literacy Program welcomes students 
at any
stage of their UW careers, and typically includes students from a wide 
variety
of majors and interests.  Some are upper division students who want to
investigate career directions in teaching, social work, counseling, social
justice, policy studies, law or pediatric medicine.  Some are lower division
students looking for a connection between experience and academic 
learning to
help them decide on a major. Some are looking for a small seminar-style 
course,
for an engaging way to earn a "W" or "Composition" credit or, in the 
words of
Dr. Paul Farmer, for a way to "use what you learn to transform 
yourselves and
your community."  CLP is also an excellent way to work toward the classroom
experience necessary for students applying to Masters in Teaching 
programs. CLP
alums have gone on to teach in Washington, California, Oregon, New York, 
Brazil
and beyond.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION: To sign up for the Community Literacy Program,
register for EDUC 401C (SLN 12630) and then English 198A (SLN 12807).  UW
students can take up to 15 credits of English 198, and can count it toward
either the "W" or the "Composition" requirement, so you're welcome to 
sign up
for CLP even if you've already taken a writing link.  No add codes are 
required
for periods 1 and 2.

QUESTIONS?  Additional information is available at the program web site:
faculty.washington.edu/esoneill/clp. Please feel free to get in touch 
with the director, Dr. Elizabeth Simmons-O'Neill, if you've got questions.

Elizabeth Simmons-O'Neill
Director, Community Literacy Program
faculty.washington.edu/esoneill/clp












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