Course Objectives:
Students will:
- Demonstrate a practical understanding of phonological awareness and its usefulness to beginning readers.
- Evaluate various phonological awareness strategies/activates and determine their effectiveness.
- Design phonological awareness instruction.
- Examine phonological awareness assessment/progress-monitoring tools for effectiveness.
Course
Activities:
Pupils will:
- Read scholarly articles regarding phonological awareness and respond in the form of discussion board posts. Elaborate and respond to posts by colleagues. (Objectives 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Create educational materials to share with parents/families. (Objective 1)
- Research phonological awareness activities and evaluate their usefulness. (Objective 2)
- Develop an instructional mini-unit (3-lessons), aligned to Common Core State Standards that focuses on a phonological awareness skill. (Objective 3)
- Design a Multimedia Project that can be used during a classroom lesson centered on phonological awareness instruction. (Objective 3)
- Administer a phonological awareness assessment and illustrate its effectiveness. (Objective 4)
Assessment:
All activities will be assessed using scoring
rubrics. As a long-time student, I have always appreciated a good, thorough
rubric because it eliminates unneeded worry (by the student) about teacher
expectations. All assignments (included discussion board posts) will be
accompanied by a scoring rubric.
#2 Course Objectives: should that be strategies/activities?
ReplyDeleteUse Student Will again under the Course Activities, just for consistency.
I have no idea what phonological awareness is or is comprised of. I could take a guess but I might be totally off base. It might be good for a definition and/or example to be included for those who may take the course not truly understanding what it is .
This makes sense to me. I like the mapping because it's very clear. Actually, I have a presentation to do in the College of Pharmacy soon, and I may use some of this as an example.
ReplyDeleteThank you ladies! You really improved my proposal! :)
ReplyDeleteYou really hit the nail on the head about the purpose of scoring rubrics. English teachers like me use them all the time, but they are usually written with curriculum designer language, ensuring that neither the faculty nor the students understand them. We (English teachers) are often under the impression that rubrics help explain grades to students, but their real value is in their ability to, as you said, communicate expectations to students before an assignment is due.
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