EDSP 648 Advanced Mazza Summer Institute: Children's Picture Storybooks: Windows on the World

This course is designed to expose teachers, librarians and other community partners to the rich resources for teaching and learning to be found in children's picture books. The institute consists of keynote speeches by well-known and up-and-coming writers and illustrators of children's picture books. In addition, keynote speakers may include editors, reviewers and other scholars in the field of children's literature. Break-out sessions are juried by the Mazza Institute Committee and feature topics such as: ways to use the books of the keynote authors/illustrators in the classroom, thematic teaching using children's illustrated books, making books, writer and illustrator roundtables, what is new in children's literature, using children's literature to meet state standards and focused tours of the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books. Since the keynote speakers and break-out sessions change each year, participants may take the institute at the post-graduate level multiple times for continuing education. The structure of the Mazza Summer Institute encourages candidates to research the latest developments in the field of children's literature, observe how the creators of children's books utilize technology, expand their knowledge base about children's literature and its relationship to literacy, develop innovative ways to teach and assess state standards, develop a background in how children's literature reflects multicultural diversity and develop a network of contacts for collaboration related to enhancing the curriculum through literature and author studies. Candidates in the advanced institute will also prepare a break-out session for the following year's institute, allowing them to become educational leaders.

Credits

1 to 6