Final Project: Diversity Assignment: A Synoptic ...



Final Project: Diversity Assignment: A Synoptic Examination of Literacy

I. Find 5 articles that situate literacies within any combination of the following contexts:

1) social justice

2) in relation to pedagogy/the classroom

3) within school/educational policy

4) in relation to families/communities

Note: These articles should come from peer reviewed professional journals. They may be interdisciplinary, but one article should be from an international journal or written by an international scholar.

II. Synthesize a review of these articles in a 6-8 page paper, APA style, with references from articles. One section of your paper must be devoted to implications for your classroom/instruction/student learning. Again, this is not merely a summary of articles; rather, the nature of the article should emerge through your review of it.

III. Prepare a group PowerPoint presentation in which you demonstrate connections you have made among Personal, Professional, and Political Concepts of Multiple Literacies. Rather than summarize each group members’ articles (an unwieldy proposition!), the emphasis of the presentation should be on synthesis and conceptual frameworks for understand literacies (personal, professional, for teaching & learning, socio-cultural-political, and such concepts). Presentations should consist of a maximum of 8 slides, including the following: introduction 3-4 concepts, implications for teaching and learning, conclusion, bibliography. Please do not crowd words onto the slide and then read slides to the class. Grades will be lowered for this unacceptable infraction.

Diversity Assignment: A Synoptic Examination of Literacy

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Rubric

|Criteria |2 |6 |10 |

|Overall Understanding of |Presentation does not indicate |Presentation indicates a general |Presentation indicates a clear |

|Concepts |understanding of contextualization|understanding of contextualization|understanding of contextualization|

| |of literacy. Little evidence of |of literacy.. Some evidence of |of literacy. Clear evidence of |

| |synthesis of contextualized |synthesis of contextualized |synthesis of contextualized |

| |concepts of literacy with |concepts of literacy with |concepts of literacy with |

| |classroom practice. |classroom practice. |classroom practice. |

|Classroom Implications |Presentation does not address |Presentation generally addresses |Presentation clearly addresses |

| |content in light of classroom |content in light of classroom |content in light of classroom |

| |implications or teaching. |implications, including teaching. |implications, including teaching. |

| |1 |3 |5 |

|Narrative |Narrative shows inadequate |Narrative shows adequate evidence |Narrative shows clear evidence of |

| |evidence of reflection. Inadequate|of reflection and has marginal |reflection and has sophisticated |

| |discussion of contexts of literacy|discussion of contexts of literacy|discussion of contexts of literacy|

| |and practice. Student does not |and practice. Student references |and practice. Student analyzes an |

| |reference an international article|an international article as one of|international article as one of 5 |

| |as one of 5 articles for the |5 articles for the project. |articles for the project. |

| |project. | | |

|Quality of Presentation |Presentation does not include |Presentation includes technology, |Presentation includes technology |

| |technology or is inappropriate for|but there is some question as to |that is appropriate for the topic,|

| |the topic and message. |the appropriateness of the |and message. Presentation is clear|

| |Presentation is lacking in |presentation for the topic and |and organized. |

| |organization |message. Presentation is mostly | |

| | |clear and organized. | |

|Professionalism |Late, does not follow all |On time, follows most presentation|On time, follows presentation |

| |presentation directions, some |directions, some grammatical and |directions, free grammatical and |

| |grammatical and mechanical errors.|mechanical errors. |mechanical errors. |

| |

|Total |

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