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- 2. Responsivenes by Publishers EffectiveMaterials usually include the following features: • Instructional goals with adaptability to course requirements. • Accurate, relevant, and relatively up-to-date information. • Appropriate reading level and vocabulary. • Real-world applications of informational skills. • Development of insight and thinking skills rather than just memorization of isolated or unrelated facts. • Absence of stereotypes and biases.
- 3. Formats of instructionalMaterials • Specialized formats include Braille, audio, digital text, and large print. • For such materials publishers must meel technical specifications in preparing and delivering instructional materials for review and adoption.
- 4. Textbook Dominance • Textbooksremain the main curriculum guides. • They are the most frequently used instructional material for students and teachers. • The amount of classroom time that students spend using textbooks is estimated at 75 to 90 percent.
- 5. The Teacher´s Manual •It is a key presentationfeature that can be a strong selling point, especially if well designed. • It contains instructional resources to supportinstructional strategies and activities. • Its organization affects how well it can be adapted and used in the classroom. • Teacher manuals and student instructional materials work well when they have the following basic features: practicality, alignment, coverage, readability, methods, assessment, management.
- 6. Technology Changes • Changesin technology over the last seven decades have made visual presentation almost as important as content. • With the expansion of technology, more specialized features have emerged.
- 7. Visual Presentation Presentation • Researchin 1920s found that serif typefaces and read more quickly and easy that sans serif. • In the late 90s, many publishers began investing in multimedia systems. Organization • Any of the materials presented in various media will be more effective than conventional classroom instruction. • Haphazard or poorly designed activities will not be as effective, even if they are computer-simulation activities.
- 8. Challenging in ReviewingContent • Are varied and numerous, including evaluating content that is comtroversial, innacurate, or without scholarship; written by anonymous authors; or misleading. Controversies • Controversy sometimes arise because of different beliefs about how best to approach a specific subject area. • It has also arisen because the policies of other adoption states have created problems that affect instructional materials. Innacurate Content • Research reported that materials often do not give topics the treatment they deserve, contain factual errors, or persist in presenting disproved concepts.
- 9. Misleading Content Anlysis •Publishers must show a correlation between their materialsand the curricular requirements of other states. • The publisher´s approach to correlation analysis may actually be the cause of many problems with content
- 10. Priority Area: Presentation •Presentation review includes teacher and students resources,and alignment of instructional co,ponents, organization, readability, pacing and ease of use. • A major part of presentations concerns how well the student and the teacher resources work together. • Research gives important guidance on how to judge other features of presentation. • Visuals also play a role in readability and too many visuals can distract learners from the lñearning process.
- 11. Comprehensiveness of Studentand Teacher Resources • Resources must be complete enough to adress the targeted learning outcomes without requiring the teacher to prepare additional teaching materials for the course. • These include: Student resources and teacher resources.
- 12. Educational Links Suggested •http://worksheets4teachers.com • http://worksheetlibrary.com • http://educatico.ed.cr