Cynthia A. Wooding
Teacher will discuss the making of the collage, the title and the four components of the collage. The collage will be divided into four sections representing each component. The first component will be: Who I am. In this section the students will have a photograph of him/herself. This photograph will be placed in the center of collage. The left side of the collage will represent what talents the student possesses. The students will demonstrate by selecting one of the three talents of creative, practical, or analytical approach. An example would be if the students like to write. Then he/she will show a picture of the action of writing, or a graphic of a pen. The student will label on the upper left hand corner "My Talent". The right side of the collage will display the career or career-related things that the student wants to possess. An example would be if the student wants to be a musician, then he/she would show a picture of a famous musician, or a profile that would fit that description. The behavioral or action words will be spread out equally around the pictures or graphics. The behavioral words are action words that demonstrate how the student will accomplish his or her goal. A few examples of behavioral words would be as follows: commitment, respect, discipline, patience, and determination. These behavioral words would be put on 3" by 5" index cards and glued around the collage. The Goal Contract worksheet would be stapled to the bottom of the collage. It would then be displayed in the Media Center for the school community to enjoy.
Students Basic Guidelines for Collage
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• Needs to be a Poster Board 3'x 3'
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• Has to have 5 Behavioral Action Words related to students tasks and goal
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• Left side of Poster Board Needs to Have a Title of My Talent
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• Right side of poster board needs to have a Title of Who I Want to Be
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• Main Title Needs to be I Have A Dream to Make (Capitals Letters)
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• Neatness, Clarity, Correct Spelling and Grammar
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• 6 Colorful & Accurate pictures representing My Talent & Who I Want To Be
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• Goal Contract Needs to be attached to Collage
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• Balance
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• Proportional
Closure
Students will discuss collage in front of classmates, parents, administrators, and guest before displaying their work in the Media Center.
Model for the Collage:
The Assessment
The assessment is an important part of the curriculum. It defines whether the goals and the objectives of the curriculum were completed with success. In addition, it shows patterns of change in regards to the implementation of the curriculum. Assessment shows where and when the changes and effects toke place at certain points during the instruction of the curriculum. The assessment monitors the behavioral patterns of the students before, during, and after the instruction of the curriculum.
The assessment is a quantitative study. It is an experimental design determining cause and effect. The students will face the challenge of not knowing how to achieve. The cause is the treatment, the treatment is the African American curriculum; it is the independent variable in the assessment. The effect is going to be based on behavior. The effect will have two dependant variables. The two dependent variables of behavior will be assessed. The first dependant behavior is how many times the students raise their hands during instructional lesson. The second dependent behavior will be how many times do the students shout out the answers to cause disruption during the instructional lesson. This assessment is tested out on two groups. One group will be manipulated with the independent variable (with intervention program), while the other group will be the controlled group (without intervention program). Each group will have a total of six assessment tests. Each test will be focus on the two dependent variables. There will be two pretest, two intervention tests, and two post-tests. There will be a total of 12 sets of data to compare and contrast. This data will be collected, analyzed, and compared from the pre-beginnings of the curriculum to the post-end of the curriculum to determine if behavioral patterns have changed in the 2 groups of classes.
