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<h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">4.6.1 Plan to Integrate COR</h2>
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<p>Each of our three previous assignments asked you to assess or teach students using existing COR tasks or lessons. For this final assignment, you have two choices. The first option is to outline how you can integrate COR materials across a whole course. The second is to take an existing COR lesson and adapt it to a specific lesson or unit in your curriculum area. Each of these assignments is best suited for classroom teachers. If you aren’t a classroom teacher, find a colleague to partner with for these assignments, or look at our additional suggestions below. </p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Option 1: Plan Your COR Course Integration</span></p>
<p>1. <strong>Set your COR goals.</strong> What will students be able to do by the end of the course that they can’t do at the outset? Frame your COR goals around the content and goals of your current course. For example, a biology teacher might set the following goal: “By the end of the course, students will be able to read laterally about digital sources of information on climate change.” </p>
<p>2. <strong>Find partners.</strong> If there are other colleagues, whether in this online course or not, who can do this work with you, please include them. As Mark Gomez said, new curriculum development and adoption often works best when you collaborate with your department, grade level team, a teacher-librarian, or other colleagues. </p>
<p>3. <strong>Outline COR instruction for your course.</strong> Examine your course outline and sketch out where you plan to integrate COR materials. As you outline your plan, consider the following:</p>
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<li>What topics in your course align well with COR? You may want to focus on topics for which there are a rich variety of online sources for students to evaluate.</li>
<li>What assignments or projects might align with your COR goals? </li>
<li>How will you sequence instruction? Map out a plan for how you will achieve your COR goals. Consider how each lesson will build on the last and how each activity will contribute to your goal. If you are unsure, we suggest starting your instructional sequence by focusing on teaching students to ask “Who’s behind the information?” and by teaching them to read laterally. You may wish to review the <a href="https://cor.stanford.edu/curriculum/collections/intro-lessons" target="_blank">Intro Lessons</a> and <a href="https://cor.stanford.edu/curriculum/collections/teaching-lateral-reading" target="_blank">Teaching Lateral Reading</a> Civic Online Reasoning curriculum collections.</li>
<li>How and when will you assess student learning? Plan to build in COR assessments to monitor your student’s progress toward the COR goals. </li>
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<p>4. <strong>Identify a COR lesson to adapt.</strong> Choose at least one lesson from SHEG’s COR website that you will adapt for your students in the future. Identify where it would fit in your course outline, brainstorm the kinds of sources you might find to adapt it for your students, and specify how it will help you accomplish your COR goals for the course. </p>
<p><strong>For your deliverable: </strong></p>
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<li>Write a journal entry that summarizes your goals, partners, pacing, and plan for integrating Civic Online Reasoning in your instruction and the COR curricular materials that you plan to adopt. </li>
<li>Briefly explain how these materials will enhance your existing course goals. </li>
<li>Include links to your curriculum outline or syllabus so that instructors and colleagues can see exactly how COR resources will be integrated into your course (and then borrow all of your best ideas!).</li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Option 2: Adapt a COR lesson</span></p>
<p>1. <strong>Examine your course outline.</strong> Examine your course outline and identify a place to integrate a COR lesson. Look for topics and skills you teach that would align well with COR. </p>
<p>2. <strong>Identify COR questions and/or skills.</strong> Which of the three COR questions and/or COR processes will you target? Consider how the lesson will fit into your course when deciding what questions to target. For example, some units might be ideal for a lesson that teaches students to evaluate evidence, while others might be best suited for investigating who is behind a source. </p>
<p>3. <strong>Find a COR lesson to adapt.</strong> Peruse SHEG’s <a href="https://cor.stanford.edu/curriculum/" target="_blank">COR website</a> to identify a lesson to adapt for your students. You can sort lessons by the COR question you plan to teach by clicking the COR question on the top of the Curriculum page. Consider how the structure and goals of the lesson will align with your curriculum. </p>
<p>4. <strong>Find online sources.</strong> Find online sources on the topic you plan to teach. Look for sources that will function like the sources featured in the original COR lesson. For example, if the COR lesson features a YouTube video that is unreliable because it is posted by an unidentifiable person, then begin by searching for anonymous social media videos or images relevant to the topic of the lesson or assignment. As you search, consider whether the content is appropriate for your students and whether your school’s web filters will allow access to the site. Remember to save any media you plan to use, in case it gets taken down. </p>
<p><strong>For your deliverable: </strong></p>
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<li>Write a journal entry that summarizes your lesson goals, the process of adapting the lesson, and your plan for implementing it. </li>
<li>Briefly explain how this new lesson enhances your existing course goals. </li>
<li>Include links to your new lesson and related resources so that instructors and colleagues can review your lesson (and then borrow all of your best ideas!).</li>
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<p><strong>Some ideas if you aren’t a classroom teacher:</strong></p>
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<li>Partner with a colleague to help them think about integrating COR across the curriculum or adapting a lesson for your local context. </li>
<li>You can use course guidelines or curriculum frameworks from your district or state to complete Option 1 or 2.</li>
<li>Develop a curriculum integration plan or adapt a lesson for a course that you’ve taken or taught in the past or one you intend to teach in the future.</li>
<li>Adapt a COR lesson for a professional development activity with your colleagues or other adult learners.</li>
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