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Course: Creating Linkages Between Content
Purpose
Analyze summative questions for pre-requisite skill requirements
Research and analyze possible pre-requisite, current, and forthcoming content linkages
Identify and analyze progression documents to aid in making content linkages
Learn to plan lessons that promote the making of content linkages on the part of students and teachers
Do this if...
Your day-to-day lessons seem disjointed and unrelated
You often discover student pre-requisite gaps mid-lesson
You would like to create an overarching lesson story or theme that unites content ideas
You want to help students understand how mathematical ideas are interrelated rather than unconnected topics
How will this help me tomorrow?
Help you incorporate rigorous, meaning questions into your formative and summative assessments
Aid in conceptualizing assessment questions so that generated data is meaningful
Help you identify high quality multiple choice and free response questions
Create your own high quality questions based off of your students' misconceptions
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