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APPENDIX III EVALUATION SHEET FOR CURRICULUM BLUEPRINT 1. __ Provided a diagram or outline of the unit content and benchmarks. 2. __ Provided an overview of the content, activities, goals and assessments. 3. __ Provided a statement of the “big idea” or key theme for the Curriculum Blueprint. 4. __ Provided a statement of what content standards were drawn upon. 5. __ Specified how students would demonstrate mastery of the big idea or theme. 6. __ Specified grade level and the historical ideas appropriate for that level. 7. __ Activities include worthwhile higher order ability (e.g., oral history, historiography, narrative writing). 8. __ Described an appropriate media stimulus to engage students. 9. __ Learning goals clearly specify expected student behavior or performance achievement. 10. __ Learning goals indicate performances that require understanding of content. 11. __ Learning goals are consistent with the planned activities. 12. __ Specified how understanding is assessed. 13. __ Specified criteria for each student performance of understanding. 14. __ Specified all of the assessments in terms of understanding performances. 15. __ Describes the performances that are assessed. 16. __ Specified the factual/declarative knowledge that is assessed. 17. __ Specified the skill/procedural that is assessed. 18. __ Specified at least one work of children’s literature. 19. __ Clearly indicated how children’s literature is incorporated into instruction . 20. __ Clearly explained how media materials are incorporated into learning. 21. __ Explained the day-by-day instructional sequence. 22. __ Explained what activities engaged students in instructional discourse. 23. __ Explained in the overview how instruction supports participation and engagement. 24. __ Described the indicators to assess student participation and engagement. 25. __ Explained how instruction supports identity development. 26. __ Described indicators to assess student identity development. 27. __ Explained how instructional settings build learning community coherence . 28. __ Described indicators of students’ increase sense of community. 29. __ Explained how/where students’ ability to interpret text and media is developed. 30. __ Explained how instruction builds students’ ability to interpret. 31. __ Described the indicators used to assess each student’s increased ability to interpret. 32. __ Explained how instruction builds critical inquiry skills. 33. __ Work appropriately typed double spaced in manuscript format. 34. __ Work submitted in timely fashion. IMPORTANT: Be sure to attach this sheet to the front of your submitted paper. 180 APPENDICES ...

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