Desktop
Publishing
Competency G - The teacher candidate demonstrates the ability to perform desktop publishing.
Gateway Requirement: Gateway 2 — Admission to Student Teaching (STT Gateway)
See the Competency Homepage for courses associated with this competency.
Authentic Performance Task: To demonstrate this competency, students are required to create a document using a desktop publishing tool (such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Print Shop, or PageMaker), which is designed to be used in an educational setting. The document can be designed as a communication between home and school, or for instructional purposes. The document must include multiple columns, articles, headlines, subheadings and graphics. There should be at least one example of text flowing around a graphic. The document should be easy to read, visually pleasing and free of grammatical and spelling errors. In LiveText students must write a rationale for how this document would be used for an appropriate educational purpose
Criteria: The informational newsletter/flyer/brochure should contain the following elements:
- a title for the informational newsletter/flyer/brochure
- headlines for all information or articles
- at least three (3) original short articles or paragraphs
- use of text boxes or columns to write articles or paragraphs
- at least one image with associated text
- use of a border either around the newsletter/flyer/brochure or around an article
Click here for an example of an informational newsletter that meets these criteria.
Training Resources: Course instructor will provide basic orientation, but students are responsible for learning the required skills using available resources. University computer labs provide hardware and software and access to on-line resources.
Submission Format: Hard copy of publication must be submitted to the course instructor based on instructor's specifications. In addition, the student must submit in their electronic portfolio a rationale stating how this document would be used for an appropriate educational purpose.
Scoring Rubric: A scoring rubric provides definitive criteria for assessing this competency. See the Evaluation web page for required elements.
Passing Criterion: 100% level of performance.
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