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Enhancing Content Enhancement: Discipline-Specific Supplements for Content Enhancement

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The Content Enhancement Supplements provide SIM Professional Developers and teachers with a set of content-specific CER examples and other materials.

Each of the supplements includes:

Lists of courses and information about the kinds of courses typically offered in the given content area
Standards suggested by national organizations for the content area
Concepts - big ideas- from the content area
Information about text structure, knowledge structures, and ways of thinking for the content area
Examples of Content Enhancement Devices created and vetted by content teachers
Information about assessment and examples of assessments (tests, projects, and other types of assessments) that would demonstrate student knowledge.
Teaching Suggestions
Reference list
Content Enhancement Supplements (02:04:24)
Bev Colombo, Leslie Herod
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Looking for ways to enhance Content Enhancement? This session will focus on CE Supplements for elective classes (PE, health, fine arts, industrial arts, family/consumer science, and foreign language) as well as the supplements for math, English/Language arts, social studies, and science. These supplements include research about text structure, knowledge structure and discourses as well as high quality integrated CER examples, assessments, and other resources. SIM PD-ers and content teachers developed the supplements for use in professional development and coaching.

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