NOTE: The materials below are class handouts that you will use during the term.
- Course Syllabus in MSWord format
- Hoover's Guidelines for Graduate Writing (Please Read)
- Hoover's Basic Grading Rubric for Final Projects
- "The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3" by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley
This is a must-read to beging to grasp why and how advantage-disadvantage plays out in shaping the scores on proficiency tests.
- "School Reform and Accountability: Some Implications and Issues for Democracy and Fair Play"
An article written by Randy L. Hoover and Kathy L. Shook for the journal "Democracy & Education", Vol. 14, No. 4, 2003.
- A short essay on Authentic Accountability versus Pseudo Accountability By Hoover and Shook, 2004. "(Re)Understanding Educator Accountability: Pseudo Vs. Authentic Policies"
- Diagrams: Teaching-Learning Model and Others
- Terms and discriptors contrasting empowering and deskilling aspects of currlculum and schooling.
Curriculum Deconstruction-Reconstruction:
- Final Deconstruction Project in MSWord file
- Example of a well-done Deconstruction Final Project (MS Word format)
- Deconstruction of a Curriculum/Lesson Plan (MS Word format)
- Final Project Cover Sheet NOTE: You are REQUIRED to use this on your final project. If you are working with another person, please attach a cover sheet for each one of you but only one copy of the final project.
- Validating Deconstruction Questions
--> The items below are primarily used in TCED 6922, Principles of Instruction. However, they may be helpful in conceptualizing the deconstruction discussions and assignments in TCED 6936 as they are the logical outcome from empowering curriculum development.
- The Outline for a basic Thematic Unit Plan with Nested Standards (HTML format)
The Outline for a basic Thematic Unit Plan with Nested Standards (MS Word format)
- Validating Questions for Thematic Unit Planning (HTML format)
Validating Questions for Thematic Unit Planning (MS Word format)
- Comp Questions