HI, I am grateful to both you and Bill for your responses to my question. By strategies, I am referring to the instructional strategies that teachers use to teach metacognition. I love the PEBC work in terms of how they relate metacognition strategies (thinking strategies) in reading, writing, mathematics, informational and research.
Since posting my question, I met with my principal and found a text by Heidi Jacobs. We have purchased this. Apparently, she is a "guru" of cross-walking curriculum and her newest book includes Literacy across the curriculum (Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.) I am hoping that it will concretely describe a means to include the HOW of instruction when curriculum mapping. My principal's concern and goal is to curriculum map in order to adjust timelines to better meet the goal of integration. I get it...But my feeling is that at the same time, we need to collect data on the type of instruction students deserve. I find that in some content area classrooms students continue to be "assigned" projects and papers with little explicit instruction. I see and hear way too much "independent research" by students without the explicit instruction of HOW to complete and synthesize research. So, the curriculum is "covered," but often students are not engaged in "learning how to learn." What is the best means of collecting data on classroom instruction - or dare I say the lack thereof? My feeling is that this information might guide our professional development planning. We have had a great deal of professional development in the area of literacy over the last 5 years, yet it seems that there are pockets of teachers who still "don't get it." For some of those folks, it is the drive of looming state tests in science and social studies that seem to be pushing them away from literacy strategy based lessons and pushing them toward instruction that "covers content." Mary Lou _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
