Content Enhancement
The Content Enhancement Series
Content Enhancement is an approach to teaching content to diverse student groups. In class, teachers present each content enhancement routine using a series of linking steps paired with a visual device or organizer. Teachers prepare a draft of the visual device in advance, but the final version of the device is co-constructed with the students during in-class presentation. Here are some examples of content enhancement devices created in various content areas.
- Tai-Chi - Unit Organizer and Expanded Map
- Electricity - Unit Organizer and Expanded Map
- Middle Ages - Unit Organizer and Expanded Map
- Haiku - Lesson Organizer
- English 10 - Course Organizer and Course Map
- Algebra - Course Organizer and Course Map
- Chromatism - Concept Mastery
- Pop Art - Concept Mastery
- Slope - Concept Mastery
- Linear Equations - Concept Mastery
- Tectonic Plates - Frame
- Linear Equations - Frame 1, Frame 2
- Article One of the Constitution - Frame
- Cell Function - Question Exploration
- Vocabulary - LINCS
- US Relationship with England - Concept Anchoring
- Models of Light - Concept Comparison
PowerPoint templates of most Content Enhancement Devices can be downloaded here.
Additionally, teachers can use the Striving Readers Content Enhancement Exchange to access even more examples of Content Enhancement Routines created by Portland Public School teachers. Instructions for using the Content Enhancement Exchange can be found here.
