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Course Organizer Book
Author(s): B. Keith Lenz, Jean B. Schumaker, Donald D. Deshler, and Janis A. Bulgren

Publication Info: Edge Enterprises, 1998

Course Organizer Resources:

VIDEO

  • How to Build a Course Organizer (22:15)
  • Course and Unit Organizer Research: Video 1995: Keith Lenz speaks about the research behind these materials at the 1995 SIM Conference.​
  • Course Organizer classroom Cue Do Review, Mrs. Robinson  (00:07:08)
  • Course Organizer Teachers Map Critical Content, Gail Cheever (00:03:05)
  • Course Organizer Teachers Identify and Sort Concepts, Gail Cheever (00:03:22)
  • Course Organizer: Teachers Shape Critical Questions, Develop Questions, Gail Cheever: (00:05:37)
  • Preconference 2010: Enhancing CERS: Guidebooks on Integrating CE Routines in Core and Elective Classes
  • Content Enhancement Supplements (02:04:24)
  • Video: Sean Strickland presenta a math Course Organizer

PPTs

  • Course Organizer Routine presentation (ppt)
  • Course Organizer Routine blank device (ppt)
  • Device Google Slide: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g6s-2CZ1RDkSy_xu2A80_1Fx8MCuJOfcqKHCR7JYiYQ/copy?usp=sharing
  • Course Organizer with Course Tracker Google Slide: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t3FbsNYgUBu2dPSxlhAWaJ9__kfxqIoIHTcmziPMkYk/copy?usp=sharing

MORE

  • Access Florida SPDG LiveBinder Assets (Key: CE CO)
  • Access Content Enhancement Routine Checklists
  • Course Organizer and the CCSS ppt
  • Cathy Spriggs  2012 CE and CCSS
    • Day One ppt
    • Day 1 Opening Loop ppt
    • Welcome SMARTER ppt
    • Session Course Organizer
    • SMARTER Planning sheet for CO and UO
  • PD Packet
  • Google slide of CO:
  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uTIL4dmRJzjMiuEvyHgWTj45bJPUC5TCUGvhiTfe8wQ/copy?usp=drive_link
  • Community Principles Section Supports: Characteristics of Good Collegiality Among Secondary Social Studies and Science Teachers with Teaching Academically Diverse Classes 1992 and accompanying ppt: Considerations for Identifying Community Principles for Good Collaborative Work with Colleagues Lenz
  • Description of the Course Organizer from the SIM website
  • Course Organizer examples

MICROCREDENTIALS

  • Professional Learning
  • Fidelity of Implementation
  • Specialist

Stratenotes/Strategram

  • Strategram Volume 15 No. 5, August 2003  Course Organizer Routine, A Clear Road Map for the Journey

Assets from FLORIDA SPDG Livebinders:

Teacher can access Florida Live Binder assets. Share this link and password:
https://www.livebinders.com/play/play_shared_binder/1416600?play_view=play  Password CE CO

Cue Do Review

The overall instructional process that guides use of the CE device with the Routine’s Linking Steps.  This instructional process involves:

Cue:  teacher announces the CE routine and explains its use, how it will help students and expectations for student participation

Do: teacher and class collaboratively construct the device using the Linking Steps that “connect” the content to the needs and goals of students

Review: Information presented in the device is reviewed and confirmed, use of the device is reviewed and confirmed, use of the device as a learning and study tool is modeled

The Cue Do Review Frame

Cue Do Review Checklist

Cue Do Review video https://vimeo.com/104006505/3f4d628af6

The Routine

Teaching ppt

Device Templates

Page 1

Course Map

Device Checklist

Fillable checklist

Examples

Middle School Science with pictures

US History

Language Arts

Biology

Algebra 1

Implementation Checklist

Fillable checklist

Concepts by Subject Area

ELA

Math

Science

Social Studies

Research

Course Organizer Routine Research slide Lenz, B.K., & Adams, G. (2006). Planning practices that optimize curriculum access. In D.D. Deshler & J.B. Schumaker (Eds.), Teaching adolescents with disabilities: Accessing the general education curriculum (pp. 35-78). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. This chapter reviews issues related to planning for students with disabilities, different kinds of planning interventions, and studies on teacher planning, including a review of lesson planning, unit planning, and course planning research. Lenz, B.K., Adams, G., Bulgren, J.A., Pouliot, N, Laraux, M (2007) Effects of Curriculum Maps and Guiding Guestions on the Test Performance of Adolescents with LD

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