Talk:Melissa Filotas' Portfolio Page

Instructor Comments on your analyses and objectives -- Jz833665 22:21, 7 March 2010 (EST)

Wow! You've been so productive in the last two weeks in conducting the instructional analysis and laying out the performance-based objectives. Excellent work!

A few comments about the objectives

1. Replace "student" with "participant" to avoid possible confusion (as your learners will be teachers)
2. I guess a top need of the participants will be to understand why these strategies (e.g., promoting cognitive/metacognitive engagement of students in reading and enhance deep processing and understanding). This might be a primary focus of your unit 1, to highlight the overarching idea.
3. It seems that this mini-course focuses on helping the participants (teachers) master various reading strategies; will you also teach them how to integrate these strategies in their classroom (i.e., ways to help their students appropriate these strategies)?
4. Unit 5: "Using the provided elementary book, the student will discriminate the type of reading strategy needed by creating one using Microsoft Word. " Not sure what you mean.

Instructor's comments on your ICM -- Jz833665 15:07, 22 March 2010 (EDT)

Melissa, your ICM and task analysis are very impressive! Great work! My only question for you is that I'm not sure if the participants will know how to "implement reading comprehension strategies in their classrooms" on the basis of knowing what these strategies are. You might be aware it: the classroom process of helping kids using/learning these strategies is a key issue.