CURRICULUM REVIEW AND SELECTION

Curriculum Review and Selection

Curriculum Review and Selection

Identification of the group

The group that has been identified for this paper comprises of students from middle school with difficulty in reading. The curriculum that is made for the group shall focus on the fact that their reading skills are weak and need to be brought up to a certain standard. The students in the group are from Hillsborough County School's middle sections. The curriculum has been made in such a way that it shall be beneficial to all students in the middle section of the school, regardless of their background or racial origination. Furthermore, assessment shall be done on periodic basis and also towards the end of the semester so that the committee and teachers know how many the children benefited from the prescribed course and how it enabled the students to speak fluently and gain more control over their English.

Description of the group

The group identified for this curriculum comprises mostly of children from the locality. Hillsborough country is one of the most prestigious areas of Florida. The students come from different ethnic backgrounds, which is one of the reasons why their English differs from each other and some of them face certain problems trying to grasp different accents. This furthermore leads to a problem with their oral language and fluency of speech. This curriculum has been therefore designed in a way that it will handle the fluency and speech problem of most of these students without letting their ethnicity and background affect the learning outcomes.

Demographics information on district

According to the census drawn in the year 2000, the population of the region is around 998,948 with more than 391,357 households and almost 255,164 families in the region. The density of the population was calculated at around 951 persons per square mile. Average density of the households in the region is around 405 per square mile. Almost 76% of the people living in the region are white, 14% are black/African American and the remaining is divided between Asian, Pacific Islander and other races. It is the thirty second highly populated county of Florida More than 32% of the households in the county have children living with them. The percentage of married couples in the county is around 41% and almost 13% of these households have female supporter with no male support. 8% of the houses have old people living in them and these are mostly supported by their children or relatives from a distance. The Average family size of the county is 4 per house. Median age of the household is 35 years. The ratio of male to female in the county is 95.8-100. The median income of the households in the county is 40,663 per annum. Males had a median income of 34,111 and females had an average income of 26962 US dollars.

Review of learning technologies (Fast for word)

What?

Before compiling this report, all those programs that can assist students with vocabulary improvement were studied and ...