General Notes:
The
content should include, but not be limited to, the following:
- Demonstrating
entry-level skills in digital communication and packaging them across the
platforms/mediums of print, multimedia, online, and broadcast;
- Demonstrating
fundamental skills in social media platforms and their uses; Expressing
social connections with maturity and complexity appropriate to writer,
audience, purpose, and context;
- Using
fundamental research skills and networking formats;
- collaborating
amongst peers; and
- Using effective
listening, speaking, and viewing strategies with emphasis on the use of
evidence to support or refute a claim in multimedia presentations, class
discussions, and extended text discussions
Instructional
Practices:
Teaching from well-written, grade-level instructional materials enhances
students' content area knowledge and also strengthens their ability to
comprehend longer, complex reading passages on any topic for any purpose. Using
the following instructional practices also helps student learning.
- Reading
assignments from longer text passages, as well as shorter ones when text
is extremely complex.
- Making close
reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
- Asking
high-level, text-specific questions and requiring high-level, complex
tasks and assignments.
- Requiring
students to support answers with evidence from the text.
- Providing
extensive text-based research and writing opportunities (claims and
evidence).
