Digital Media Assignment

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• A group of eight experienced tenure teachers were disappointed by their school's curriculum program, but they stated that they were to exhausted and helpless to fight for a new program.
• Teachers need to be constantly re-evaluating their teaching practices to best assist their students.

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• This quote stood out to me because it is so true! "If we as professionals continue to remain silent and passive, people outside education will continue to determine our reading practices" (Routman, p188).

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• I love that the author made his own chart on page 190 about the topics that the National Reading Panel did not discuss in their own chart.

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• A teacher should not use the program year after year. They should evaluate the effectiveness of the program and make changes as needed.

common problems with program curriculums

• Differentiation for students
• Same pace instruction
• Not enough intervention time
• Low-leveled activities

Direct instruction

• Is a time specifically focused on low-performance readers.
• Could focus on letters, sounds, and sentences.

Questions to ask

• Do research based off of the new adapted program
• Research the researchers
• Does the research support the evidence given?
• Is the research current?
• Does the researchers support my view on the topic?
• What are the long term goals for this project?

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