Core Content Coaching Social Studies Grade 6

1. Core Content CoachingSocial Studies Grade 6 Components of Effective Planning 1st 6 Weeks6th Grade World Cultures Unit 1: Understanding Maps and Globes, Arc 1: Maps: Elements and Use Middle School Austin Independent School District CRM TEKS Differentiation Text Selection Best Practice and Assessment

2. What you may need: • School Calendar/Yearly Itinerary (YI) • Curriculum Road Map (CRM) • TEKS/ELPS/CCRS • Adopted Text Book • A resource for quality texts • A resource for higher order question stems • Lesson plan template • Planning for Rigor Document • …and most especially, EACH OTHER!

3. Start with getting an overview of how much time you have….. YI We are working on Unit 1 , Arc 1 Yearly Itinerary information should be used along with school event calendar information to get an accurate picture of available instructional time.

4. Review CRM for Concept, Transfer, Enduring Understandings, Units, Vocabulary, and Arcs, Resources CRM Name and discuss each part.

5. Look at the TEKS verb, words, phrases… Look at the TEKs being taught in the lesson, What students will need to know and be expected to do…. • What TEKS are going to be addressed during this lesson? • What academic vocabulary do students need to understand and use? • What words, phrases in the TEKS may not be understood by the students? • What guiding questions(s) will facilitate understanding and mastery?

6. TEKS: Look at the TEKS verb, words, phrases • Do students understand what they need to master? • Do they understand what the TEKS expect them to learn? • Do the students understand the vocabulary related to the TEKS? • After reading and discussing each TEKS, the student needs to be able to articulate what he/she needs to learn/do to accomplish mastery of the TEKS. (Then you as the teacher know that the student understands the TEKS and is knowledgeable of the task.)

7. TEKS: Look at the TEKS verb, words, phrases… • Think about what the student may now be wondering? Yes, you are competing with all these thoughts, but you must bring them back to your classroom. Direct them back to the TEKS being studies, and what you are preparing to teach, and they need to learn.

8. An activity for students…(Your students will do this activity several different times during the lesson.) • Rewrite the TEKS we are working on in your own words. • List the assignments that we did for the TEKS. Courtesy of Sean Piper 3. Write the verbs from the TEKS you want to perform. Gorzycki MS • Using the assignments, discuss where we performed the verbs in a sentence or two. Explain what you learned based on the TEKS.

9. TEKS continued…Why are we learning about maps? • Why do they need to acquire this knowledge? • Why is it important? Students need to connect to/and believe the information is important to them. Let them come up with some answers. You will need to have some ideas to support or supplement their answers in order to make the learning relevant to them. The answer will depend on the TEKS being studied. (Take a couple of minutes and talk to a partner about some possible reasons why students need to know about maps and their purposes.) Answers can be simple: If I want to know how far a vacation destination is… (map types and map scale). When I go to Colorado I want to know the altitude…(types of maps). Where is the “ring of fire”. (location, coordinates) There are various kinds of maps and uses for them. The information we get from them makes our lives easier because the knowledge gained from maps expands our information about many different people. It is important to know how to use map tools to help us learn about the geography of places and regions and how geography impacts the way people live and interact with each other..

10. Students will Know…Students Will Be Able To Discuss as a group and share with each other

11. CRM Assessment Evidence: What formative and summative assessments will you use in your teaching to check for understanding? • Knowledge level questions • Comprehension level questions • Application level questions • Analysis level questions • Synthesis level questions • Evaluation level Discuss in partners or in a group the formative and summative assessments listed. Are there questions any you might want to add? What questions will you ask that addresses the rigor of the TEKS/SE that extend the learning?

12. CRM: Models/Anchors of Support…, Instruction…, and Student Task…. Your classroom needs to reflect the TEKS and what is being studied. Take a couple of minutes to discuss as a small group/ partners and share with each other. Examples of Models or Examples of Support The TEKS studied need to be written out for students to see and connect to what is being studied. Anchors of support: textbook, other books, resources, websites, newspapers, magazines, posters, word walls, and academic vocabulary and supportive vocabulary, student work, Discovery Education Streaming, Interactive Student Notebook, foldables, etc. of Models or Ex What will your instruction include? Interactive Student Notebook, foldables, graphicorganizers, collaboration: small group and partnerwork, shared and independent, reading, research • TASK • The student task is aligned to the TEKS/SE • The task is aligned to students’ differentiations (SpEd, ELL) • Students are complaint with tasks • Students are on task and able to articulate learning • Students are engaged and learning is student directed.

13. CRM Planning Tools… An exemplar lesson will be lined for teachers to use. The lesson is in a portfolio. Open the portfolio using AcrobatPro 9.

14. Evidence of Learning… • Students can explain the meaning of… and give examples of … using academic vocabulary. • Students can use the tools(maps…) to document their knowledge. • Students have high expectations for themselves to document their learning. • Students can explain and justify their mastery of the TEKS to the teacher and their peers verbally/writing/product. • Essential Questions can be used throughout the unit to measure student understanding. When students know what they are suppose to comprehend, they will be able to articulate when they have achieved mastery. Let them list the TEKS in their Interactive Student Notebooks (ISN) and write what they have learned that demonstrates this mastery. Students will have a documented list of their accomplishments to review.

15. Don’t forget ELPS, CCRS, and 21st Century Framework…. • ELPS These standards are required by law and are not only designed to make content comprehensible and develop academic language for ELL’s but support quality instruction for all learners in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. • CCRS These standards were approved in 2008 to ensure that Texas students are graduating from high school with all the skills necessary to be successful in college. These focus not only on content but the intellectual skills and underlying understandings of the structure of knowledge necessary to be highly equipped for post-secondary education. • Framework for 21st Century Learning This framework is designed to outline the skills, knowledge, and expertise students need to be successful in life, work, and globally. They focus on aptitudes such as, creativity, technology, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, and communication.

16. Academic Vocabulary Academic Vocabulary … 6th Grade • What guiding questions and/or stems are being used to promote the use of academic vocabulary? • Teacher provides questions to promote academic vocabulary • Teacher provided sentence stems • Teacher did not provide opportunities to use academic vocabulary • Use words in reading and speaking context. • Students draw pictures/use graphic organizers to support word meaning. • Students speak in complete sentences with meaning and understanding.

17. Elaboration

18. Elaboration Example: Economic/Resource Thematic Climate Maps Physical Road Political

19. Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions Students will be able to answer these questions after this concept is taught.

20. Selecting just the right resources… • The Social Studies grade level textbook is a great place to start. • The CRM has resources listed under the Unit and the Arc. • Check out the Social Studies Website for more resources in your grade level. • The Library Services Media Center using IBISTRO: The EnclyclopediaBritanica and the World Book are online. Many other District licensed internet resources are also there, along with usernames and passwords, including Discovery Education Streaming. (Go the AISD website, type in IBISTRO, click on Portal Knowledge.) • The school library and if your school has one, the literacy library

21. Planning is the KEY… Planning Instruction: • Read your CRM as a whole document to get the gist of what students need to learn and you need to teach. • Read each separate part of your CRM for background knowledge. • Review the TEKS: Your lesson must be tied to the TEKS. • How will your students demonstrate (assessment) that they have mastered the learning? How will you know they have the Essential Understanding? Are able to answer the Essential Questions? • What strategies, best practices will you use to get the outcome of mastery from each of your students? • What differentiation accommodations will you need to add to your lesson so that all students meet the standards?

22. Addressing the needs of diverse learners… • The first part of differentiating instruction involves: finding out where your students are starting in their knowledge base and anticipating areas where clarification may be necessary. There are formal and informal ways to acquire this information. • What background knowledge, prior learning, and habits do students need in order to be successful with the new concept? • What misconceptions need to be clarified before new learning takes place? • How will instruction be differentiated to address the needs of all learners? • At what level of proficiency (in English/prerequisite skills) are my students? • What supports/scaffolds would support the student understanding? • Who can I ask for help? The school SPED teacher, the District SPED office, ESL teachers at the school, the District Bilingual Dept. and of course the Social Studies Dept.

23. Best Practices applied to teaching and assessing Because Teaching and Assessing have a reciprocal relationship Plan your lessons with these questions… Best Practices: • How will the teacher model/explain clear expectations for the students’ learning? (Such as developing a criteria chart with the students) • What anchors of support can be created to help students in their thinking? • Which 21st Century Skills can be targeted? • How will students be held accountable for their new learning, as well as make their thinking and learning public? • How will accountable discussions and collaboration be encouraged in an atmosphere of mutual respect? • How will students be grouped for rigorous thinking (problem solving)? • What role might technology play in making the learning more accessible and at the same time, more rigorous?

24. Assessment: Checking for Understanding Assessment • Formative-How will I know all students are understanding the new concept as it is being taught? • Scaffolding- What adjustments/reteaching needs to happen as a result of misunderstanding? • Summative-How will I know all students have mastered the new concept? (Performance tasks) • How can the academic testing language be embedded into daily instruction and? • How will the lesson build skills necessary for success on Performance Tasks?

25. Review : Clear Expectations • Knowledge and Skill Statement and Student Expectations posted and referenced in the classroom. • What models or anchors of support will we use? • How will students be held accountable for their learning and make their thinking public? • How will discussion and collaboration be encouraged and expected? • How will students be grouped for rigorous thinking and problem solving?

26. Gradual Release • I Do: Teacher begins with a question, problem to solve, or hook. Engagement -Read Aloud/Think Aloud/Questioning/Text Evidence -Teacher models performance task • We Do: Shared construction of task/task/facilitates class and small group discussion • Develop criteria/rubric for task • You Do: Students read / complete task independently • Judge task based on criteria or rubric

27. Student Engagement/Formative Assessment • Small groups (Distribute to each small group a set of different kinds of maps. The students help each other to identify the defining characteristics of each type of map.) • ISN reflection (After studying the different types of maps students explain which and why certain maps are needed to plan a vacation.) • Exit Slips (As students leave the room, they write a description of the difference between absolute and relative location.)

28. Interactive Student Notebooks Students might: • Write reflections ( In your ISN write a reflection on your ideal location for a summer home.) • Interpret maps(Using a population map, students will research a world location for the specific reason(s) where the urban areas are located.) • Keep graphic organizers (Students create a web of the different kinds of maps and their distinguishing characteristics.)

29. Reminders: Repetition • The teacher ensures that the new vocabulary comes up many, many, many, many times. • Partner Practice/Quizzes • Games • Class and small group discussions

30. Active Use of Vocabulary The teacher finds ways to encourage the students to actively use the new vocabulary. • Praise • Rewards • Use in speaking and writing • Word Walls/Banks • Correct the Teacher • “Give” the word to the student • Use vocabulary in writing tasks

31. Encourage Writing • Expository: Factual writing, cause and effect, summaries, lists, outlines, note-taking for research… • Personal : Reflections on what was learned. Connections made to learning • Encourage your students to write in complete sentences unless sentences are inappropriate for the task such as creating a list.

32. Next Steps… • This concludes your planning for Social Studies Weeks 1 and 2. You will repeat the process weekly for planning the TEKS/SEs for Weeks 3-4 using your YI, CRM, and Model Lessons. • It is a lot to think about, but after you experience it, it will go much faster and become a unconscious habit.