Examining Curriculum Materials: Food For Plants

Examining Curriculum Materials: VA: Encouraging Students to Explain Their Ideas

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Major Criterion	Indicators - What must a material do to meet the criterion?	Yes or No	Justification and Citation How does the material meet this indicator? OR Why does this material fail to meet this indicator? Be sure to give specific examples
Category V: Promoting Student Thinking about Phenomena, Experiences, and Knowledge Criterion A. Encouraging students to explain their ideas Does the material routinely include suggestions for having each student express, clarify, justify, and represent his or her ideas? Are suggestions made for when and how students will get feedback from peers and the teacher?	1. Material routinely encourages students to express their ideas.
	2. Material encourages students not only to express but also to clarify, justify, and represent their ideas (a material is not expected to encourage students to clarify, justify, and represent ideas each time they are asked to express their ideas; however, in the course of teaching a particular key idea the material should provide students with opportunities to clarify, justify, and represent ideas).
	3. Material provides opportunities for each student (rather than just some students) to express ideas.
	4. Material includes specific suggestions on how to help the teacher provide explicit feedback to students or includes text that directly provides students with feedback.
	5. Material includes suggestions on how to diagnose student errors, explanations about how these errors may be corrected, and recommendations for how students' ideas may be further developed.