Summary of Literacy Vs Content sub titled

00:00:00 - 00:05:00

This video discusses the importance of strong literacy skills as a foundation for success in higher education. The teacher provides results from a study of two students who, after taking a literacy test, were found to be in the top 5 percent of their respective grade levels. The teacher then offers advice to another teacher on how to teach a unit on the circulatory system to a class of students.

• 00:00:00 In this video, Kobrin P12 College teacher Oroville discusses the importance of strong literacy skills as a foundation for success in higher education. He presents results from a study of two students who, after taking a literacy test, were found to be in the top 5 percent of their respective grade levels. The teacher then offers advice to another teacher on how to teach a unit on the circulatory system to a class of students. Overall, the video provides a glimpse into the importance of strong literacy skills in higher education and the lengths to which a teacher will go to provide them.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses how normal classwork reveals that some students are more capable than they appear when it comes to literacy and content-based subjects. The author believes that if content is the focus of instruction, rather than literacy, students will be able to achieve at a higher level.