The World History for Us All Project appreciates your detailed evaluation of the quality of both the model curriculum and the web site. The continuing development and improvement of World History for Us All will depend on your critical and insightful comments.
Please respond to any of the questions below. Keep in mind that because the model curriculum continues to be in development, some elements are not yet available.
1. What computer type do you normally use?
2. What Internet browser do you normally use?
3. Where would you normally view this web site?
4. What access to Microsoft PowerPoint do you have?
7. Have you had problems viewing or downloading the "PowerPoint Overview Presentations?" If so, identify the location of the problem.
15. Have you had problems understanding the meaning of titles, headings, and subheadings anywhere in the site? If so, describe the problems.
19. What suggestions do you have for improving the layout, organization, and navigability of the site?
20. Evaluate the conceptual clarity and content of any or all of the nine sections under Foundations of This Curriculum. Are the materials in this section useful to you as a teacher? In what ways? Are any elements unclear, irrelevant, or not useful? If so, what elements?
Why an integrated world history curriculum?
21. Evaluate the Three Essential Questions element of the curriculum. Does the curriculum make clear the purpose and use of the Three Essential Questions?
26. Evaluate any of the Panorama, Landscape, or Closeup teaching units in the model curriculum. Base your evaluation on all of the ways you examined or used the unit, including your experience teaching the unit and your students' response to the unit.Identify the unit by title and number (for example, Landscape Teaching Unit 4.3). Identify, if appropriate, the subject, grade, and developmental level of the class in which you taught the unit.
A) What problems, if any, did you have navigating or understanding the unit?
B) What problems, if any, did you have understanding the activity instructions?
C) What problems, if any, did you have in adapting this unit to the needs and capabilities of your students?
D) How did your students generally respond to the subject matter and activities in this unit?
F) How much class time did you spend on the unit compared to the suggested time under Time and Materials? Were you able to cover the unit activities in the suggested time allotted?
G) Do you intend to use this teaching unit again? Why, or why not?
28. How useful to you is the model curriculum, or any of its elements, in meeting your state's or district's content or performance standards?