10/26 Coordinator meeting, Social Studies Network

Started the morning at coordinator meeting:

• Check in
• Swipe cards
• curric plan
• Template
• Resource adoption process

After the meeting I worked on Tuesday's Learning Goal Presentation....

At 12:00 I attended the Social Studies Network meeting at Missouri History Museum:

• Update on a draft framework for state standards for social studies
• Call for proposals open on http://www.mosocialstudies.com/ for the February conference

Model Curriculum Presentation

• Model curriculum will...
• Be a rigorous curriculum based on state standards, GLE< CLE and CCSS
• Present a model to all districts
• MSIP 5 requires
• formative ans summative assessments 
• use of HOTS
• General description for content in an area
• Specific measurable objectives
• assessments that inform
• instructional activities related to student progress toward goals
• Written, taught, and assessed HAD to be the same
• adequate instructional time for implementation
• Aligned to SHOW ME standards
• Components of Model Curriculum
• Unit objectives
• Essential Questions
• Alignments to GLE/CLE and ELA
• Timeline
• activities
• teaching strategies
• Objectives
• formed by GLE/CLE
• are the "to do" statements that drive
• describe what is taught
• guide for instruction
• Essential questions
• BROAD, transferrable
• Assessment thinking
• Examine the objectives
• knowledge and skills will they have to demonstrate
• how will we know?
• EX: Students will evaluate the impact of the Westward Movement on Native Americans in Missouri
• Assessment types
• Formative
• Benchmark
• Summative
• Scoring guides and rubrics
• copyright free materials or permissions granted
• rubrics for performance events
• Strategies and activities
• Integrating CCSS - ELA
• Literature - Teaching civic values, issues
• Informational text - identifying relationships and reasons, similiatiies and differences
• Writing - including opinion, narratives, and informative research
• Speaking and listening - collaborative conversations, asking and answering questions
• Language - Vocab acquisition and use, social studies has more words in its discipline than any other content area
• Piloting curriculum
• Here are the Websites that teachers need to access.
   
  ¨  Teachers pilot and give feedback during the 2012-2013 school year
  ¨  Teachers sign up at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8RJBDN
  ¨  The units can be found at:  https://k12apps.dese.mo.gov/webapps/ModelCurriculum/findunit.aspx
  ¨  Teachers will give feed back after they have completed the unit(s) with their class(es)https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q8YWJ52

How ELA and SS merge: http://sheg.stanford.edu/

Framework for historical thinking:

Elementary History Resources: http://www.bringinghistoryhome.org/