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Content Enhancement is an approach to planning and delivering instruction academically teaching content to diverse groups of students.
It involves making decisions about what content to teach, manipulating and translating that content into easy-to-understand formats, and presenting it in memorable ways. The Content Enhancement approach has been designed to help teachers promote deeper understanding of content that is tied to state standards.
The KU-CRL provides films that introduce and demonstrate the
Content Enhancement. These short videotapes underline the processes and purposes of Content Enhancement while offering helpful suggestions for achieving optimum results.
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Authors: B. Lenz, J. Bulgren, J. Schumaker, D. Deshler, D. Boudah
The Unit Organizer demonstrates how teachers can ‘frame” a unit and then organize information into lessons. By framing a unit, the teacher then helps students see and understand the “big picture” of the unit. Specifically, the Unit Organizer Routine is used to help teachers introduce and build a unit so that everyone can: (a) understand how the unit can be part of bigger course ideas or a sequence of units; (b) see a method of organizing knowledge; and (c) monitor progress and accomplishment in learning. This video shows how an elementary teacher and her students use the Unit Organizer Routine to introduce a lesson on conferencing to improve writing. 12:40
 1994, University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities
Authors: B. Lenz, R. Marrs, D. Deshler, J. Schumaker
The Lesson Organizer is used to plan lessons and introduce and connect ideas to the unit and the course. It is used to introduce and build a lesson in which students: (a) understand the main idea of the lesson; (b) relate the lesson to their background knowledge; (c) distinguish the most important parts of the lesson content from the least important; and (d) understand the tasks and expectations associated with the lesson. This video shows how a secondary teacher uses the Lesson Organizer Routine to introduce and support learning in a lesson on alcohol. The Lesson
Organizer visual device is used to display information and guide learning. 20:00
 1993, University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities
Authors: J. Bulgren, D. Deshler, J. Schumaker
The Concept Anchoring Routine focuses on how teachers can help students understand key concepts. This routine is designed to promote increased understanding by anchoring new information to familiar information. Teachers name a New Concept and interact with the students to relate it to a Known Concept. Thus, an analogy is developed between a better-known concept and an abstract, complex concept. In this video, a secondary teacher uses the Concept Anchoring
Routine to help students gain an understanding of the concept oxidization.
She compares the familiar concept of how a washing machine cleans laundry to the new concept of how a liver oxidizes alcohol. 14:21
 1994, University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities
Authors: J. Bulgren, J. Schumaker, D. Deshler

Concept Mastery focuses on how teachers can help students define, summarize, and explain a major concept and where it fits within a larger body of knowledge. This routine is used to identify a target concept, place it within a larger framework, identify prior knowledge of the concept, identify characteristics, analyze examples, and construct a definition. This video shows how a secondary teacher and her students use the Concept Mastery Routine to explore the concept of monarchy.
They show how to use the Concept Diagram, which graphically depicts elements involved in analyzing a concept. 18:00
 1993, University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities