19. Commercially Developed Curricula Used to Teach Literacy 7.3 7 Corrective Reading 7.3 7 Reading A-to-Z 10.4 10 News-2-You 10.4 10 Read Naturally 13.5 13 MEville to WEville 24.0 23 Star Reporter 26.0 25 Reading Mastery 31.3 30 Reading Milestones 77.1 74 Edmark
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35. Making Decisions about Using Curricula, Materials and Strategies 10.9 14 Other 17.2 22 Catalog 28.1 36 School/district recommendation 43.0 55 Cost and budget 57.0 73 Research evidence of effectiveness 67.2 86 Consultation with other educators 76.7 89 Student data Percent Frequency Basis
What students paras assist with and what materials do they typically use?
Your want the relationship to be functional.
Start at 6:00 min to 7:20 min (reading instruction)
Describe picturesCan you identify the tension?
Can you see the dichotomy in these two statements?Have you observed a teacher administer an alternate assessment (MTAS)?How does this requirement effect literacy instruction?
IDEA 2004
Qualitative survey resultsHave you seen this tension? Have you had conversations about it with your teacher?
Divide group into small groups and assign quotes – explain what teachers meant, which side of the diagram would you place your quote and how it relates to your work – first to your group, then to the whole class.
76% of teachers reported using commercially developed curriculaWhich ones are you familiar with?Where would you place these curricula on the tension triangles?
How do you see curricula used in your work?
Are you surprised at these findings? What instruction do you typically assist with?
Factors affecting decisionsDo you assist with data collection? What kind of data do you collect? How do you assist?
Paras’ involvement – collecting and scoring quantitative data, recording scores.
Based on your work with students, can you think of one example under at least 4 categories in the diagram?
9:20 min – to the end 13:30 (transition, life skills)There are some outcomes you cannon measure.
How important do you think it is for you to know all these contextual factors?