Implementing material into the curriculum
Implementing material into the curriculum
Evaluating strategies used in literacy materials is crucial for teachers to do to successfully implement material into the curriculum. It is also important for teachers to evaluate how they will assess student comprehension of materials used in the classroom so they can adjust instruction or literacy materials as needed.
Select two literacy materials, either from your mentor teacher’s classroom or through research, that you think would be appropriate for secondary students in your content area. Create an information sheet that could be shared with other middle or secondary educators interested in incorporating literacy into the selected content area.
Include the following for each material:
Title, author, and brief description of the literacy materials and how they fit with the selected content area
For each material: Description of one literacy strategy used within each textbook or literacy material
Brief description of one activity for each material
Example of a formative assessment and how the data collected could be used to adjust future instruction
Brief rationale justifying why the selected formative assessments are suitable to determine student progress
Images, graphics, etc. to enhance the document
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument