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Balanced Achievement and Accountability

Balanced Achievement and Accountability. Benchmarking to Exemplary Practice in Social Studies. February 2, 2009. Why are you here?. To discuss the Social Studies Departmental role in RSD Educational Strategic Plan for 2006-2012

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Balanced Achievement and Accountability

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  1. Balanced Achievement and Accountability Benchmarking to Exemplary Practice in Social Studies February 2, 2009

  2. Why are you here? • To discuss the Social Studies Departmental role in RSD Educational Strategic Plan for 2006-2012 • To help students obtain skills embedded in RSD mission statement - specifically become a productive and responsible citizen

  3. Vision for Social Studies Department • The Social Studies Department is a learning community united in its commitment to insuring that students develop an understanding of foundational versus issue-based perspectives of human interaction from a world view to a regional view to a national view culminating in its application.

  4. Social Studies Vision Scaffold Application Grade 12 National View Grade 11 Regional View Grade 10 World View Grade 9

  5. What links the curriculum vision? • Commonality of content focus, skills development, instructional strategies and literacy development. • Grade 9- Focus on cultural, political and economic development based on physical characteristics. Emphasis is onexplaining spatial patterns of phenomena that answer the how question. • Grade 10 - Build on geographical knowledge and skills that allow for a focus on regional European development and influences through the millennium. Emphasis is on analyzing spatial patterns of phenomena that answer the why question. • Grade 11 - Continue to build on previous geographic and skill knowledge for a focus on the development of the American experience and character. Emphasis is on analyzing spatial patterns of phenomena that answer the why question. • Grade 12 - Application of knowledge and skills to the understanding analysis of national and world events.

  6. How does the departmental vision connect to the state standards? • The overall vision is based on the collective social studies standards for geography, history, civics and government, and economics. • Within specific grade level content, emphasis is placed on specific domains. For example, the content for grades 9 and 10 draws heavily from the geography and world history standards.

  7. Curriculum priorities • A standard describes the minimal behavior that a student should demonstrate if he or she is to be considered proficient. • At a specific grade level, the strategic plan calls for the development of a curriculum so that all students can demonstrate proficiency in meeting a stated standard. • Leveled curricula must fulfill this need by having all students demonstrate proficiency on essential knowledge and skills. • Because of this need, social studies curriculum content at each grade level will be prioritized into essential, important and compact categories.

  8. Prioritized Curriculum Map of Standards and Objectives H Important Compact Essential Essential Important CP Essential CCP

  9. Prioritized Instructional Time Map of Curriculum Content H 20% I 20% C 60% E 75% E 25% I CP 100% E CCP

  10. Development of Curriculum Map Across Block/Course Every course needs to develop: • A power curriculum that prioritizes instructional design with an accompanying set of instructional objectives and a curriculum map. …So, what is a power curriculum?

  11. High Impact Strategies Literacy Writing Strategies Extended Thinking Skills Summarizing Vocabulary in Context Advance Organizers Non-Verbal Representations Content Vocabulary Writing to inform Summary point writing Distributed summarizing Content Literacy Reading Strategies Main Idea Sequencing Compare/Contrast Fact/Opinion Cause/Effect Inferences Assessment Common Summative Formative Portfolio

  12. The Bottom Line for 2009 • Grade 9 - Course will be Human Geography • Grade 9 will use the TCI Geography Alive! textbook • Grade 10 - Course will be European History • Grade 10 will use Prentice Hall World History: The Modern Era textbook

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