Santa Clara University

Continuing Education Classes - Children's and Young Adult Literature from a Teacher/Author Perspective

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Children's and Young Adult Literature from a Teacher/Author Perspective

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Day Wednesdays, January 20 - March 3, 2010
Time 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Room Daly Science Building, room 106
Credit 20 hours, 2.0 CEUs
Cost $300

Description

This course lets teachers and other educators experience the pleasure of children's and YA literature, as well as creating and sharing strategies for the teaching that literature effectively to young people. Students in the course will read work in various genres, share lesson plans and other curricular ideas, and learn about children's writing from a writer's as well as a teacher's point of view. We'll also look at the various ways readers and texts interact, investigate motivational and other student-centered strategies, and learn about the publishing industry and the children's writer's place within it. But the main emphasis is for us to enjoy and explore the literature itself!

Instructor


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Tim Myers

Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter and professional storyteller who also teaches at Santa Clara University.  One of his essays was nominated for a Pushcart, he’s published over 100 poems, has a chapbook out from Pecan Grove Press, and won a national poetry contest judged by John Updike.  He's placed much fiction and nonfiction for adults and won a prize in an international science fiction contest.  His children’s book Tanuki’s Gift got an excellent review in the New York Times, and his Basho and the Fox, a New York Times bestseller, was read aloud on NPR.  He has ten children's books out or in press.  Tim spent 14 years as a secondary-school teacher, worked with emotionally-disturbed adolescents, and has been a university lecturer for 16 years.
 
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