Priority Area: Presentation

Teacher: Licda Cleopatra Noel

A major part of presentation concerns how well the students and teacher resources work together. Visuals also play a role in readability. Too many visuals can distract learners from the learning process. But relevant visuals support readability when integrated with the text in a form different, but explanative, of the content.

Comprehensiveness of Student and Teacher Resources

This include a students resources and teacher resources.

Student Resources

Although flashy, eye-catching materials with easy-to-read lists and colorful illustrations may be attractive, students often consider them dull reading, especially when the materials provide simple tidbits of information without integration of subject matter.
Another danger is that those attractive features used to highlight key ideas often mislead students. Effective instructional materials generally integrate the use of reference aids (index, maps, graphic organizers, and pictures) with the topic studied.

Teacher Resources

Resources for teachers often include a massive teacher's manual that includes the annotated student text, lesson plans, enrichment activities, questioning strategies, tips for varying learning styles. These resources can be so comprehensive that nearly all instructional decisions are made for the teacher, and it becomes especially important to evaluate the quality and implications of those decisions, particularly for teachers who may be teaching a subject for the first time.
The teacher resources include:

• Components and materials that are easy to use.
• Materials to support lesson planning, teaching, and learning.
• Suggestions for adapting instruction for varying needs.
• Guidelines and resources on how to implement and evaluate instruction.
• Resources to use in classroom activities.
• Resources for building relationships with families.

Alignment of Instructional Components

This includes within students materials it has alignment of content, learning activities, tests, goals, and objectives improves learning and with teacher materials they emphasized the importance of alignment of a teacher's manual with students' activities of the content, sequence, pacing, and procedures for teachers. The materials must match in content and progression of instructional activities.

Organization of Instructional Materials

Clear organization of instructional materials supports:

1. Access to Content some features help in searching and locating information, such as a table of contents.
2. Visible Structure and Format placement of information can help students and teachers see structure.

Visual clues signal content and organization examples of these are (font style, symbols to concentrate attention, subheadings, summaries overviews, outlines, and section; color and highlighting, margin comments, text boxes, tables, and charts.

Objectives or a content outline may introduce main ideas provide guidepost to use in searching for key information, or serve as a checklist for self assessment.

3. Logical Organization students need organized knowledge structures to learn new information. Poor organizations is detrimental to learning, while an explicit and teachable content structure can double the amount remembered. Logical information must be unified and consistent.

• Unified the statement of a clear purpose with content organized around main ideas, principles, concepts, and logical relationships supports the unity and flow of information.
• Consistent the pattern  of organization of the content should be consistent and logical for the type of subject or topic. These pattern may include compare and contras, time sequence, cause and effect and so on.

Effective organization include:

1. Simple listing when order is not significant;
2. Comparison-contrast for concepts;
3. Time sequence when timing of events is important;
4. Cause-and-effect to express cause or reason;
5. Problem-solution for reasoning or problem-solving skills; and
6. The setting, characters, conflict, resolution, and inside view in a story.

the more consistent the material prepare for students need with the topic related it is better for the teachers to achieve the goals of a successful classroom.