Syllabus

Schedule

Helpful sites

Overview

Summary of some main ideas

Summary of forms of knowledge and phases of mastery

Scope and Sequence for 100 Easy Lessons

Curriculum based assessment

Reading First.  [Main features of effective reading instruction] ppt

Reading First.html

!!! Tests and curriculum

Short forms for assessing curriculum materials and instruction

*****************************

Stuff of GREAT relevance to secondary education

Making sense of what you read and hear  Helping teachers and students to identify knowledge that is IN text: facts, lists, concepts, rules/propositions, and routines (which include explanations, descriptions, theories, models---as articulating these is a sequence of steps).

Resources for teaching forms of knowledge; text with examples of facts, concepts, etc.

** Vocabulary  Five methods of vocabulary instruction.

** Lord Acton.   The NC Standard Course of Study says that students should learn about the development of democracy.  Lord Acton could be important reading.  Definitions of concepts.  Things Solon did.  Rules/propositions about political arrangements.

** Federalist 10.  How factions develop; difficulties they pose.  Republics vs. democracies.

** Anti-federalist.  Patrick Henry.  What is his argument (a routine) that the Constitution as written is a dangerous document? 

** U.S. Constitution.   Great source of lists (e.g., rules in each Article and Amendment; list of Amendments); concepts; and routines (e.g., explain how the various articles and amendments are an attempt to limit the development of a tyrannical state).

** The Jacksonian Tradition.   Relevant to current politics.  Walter Russel Mead.  Concepts, lists, rules, propositions

** Inflation, recession, depression, business cycle.  How can students leave school not knowing what these terms mean?  How can they evaluate legislation, programs, and agendas?   Concepts, rules/propsitions, routines (explanations)

** The Krebs cycle.  Main page.

          Mitochondrion.  Background knowledge.

          Phases of the Krebs Cycle.  

** Greek Phalanx Combat Text.  Identify information to teach, and objectives; design instruction.

** Spartan Poetry and Memorials.  Use inductive reasoning (comparing and contrasting samples to find common features; then stating these common features in the form of concepts [kinds of things], rules or propositions [how kinds of things go together].