Resources
Below are references to texts and online readings that assisted me in creating activities presented in my social studies kit.
Open Minds to Equality (chapter 2).
Nancy Schneidewind and Ellen Davidson All students should be given the same opportunity to learn and be an active member in the community with the assistance of educators. "By supporting the development of your students' self-worth, competence, and belief that they can make a difference" (p. 26).
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Why Students Should Study History
An Interview with Howard Zinn Students should study history to be able problem solve and solve issues that are presented in our world today. History is not a set of dates and events to memorize. History, if properly instructed, can educate students on multiple perspectives outside of the Western Hemisphere.
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How Do You Teach? Planning for Challenge and Variety
Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchy instructional tool to differentiate lessons and challenge students to participate in higher level thinking. The 6 levels are; knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
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An Assessment Continuum
from Formative to Summative Identifies and categorizes assignments and assessments into formative and summative.
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Active Learning Strategies
Categorize learning strategies that focuses on student learning and assessment.
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Effective Assessment
1. Assess students performance during daily activities. 2. Give both individual and group work to assess group work equitable. 3. Use simple techniques to assess writing assignments efficiently. 4. Simple system to assess student notebooks efficiently. 5. End-of-lesson tests to assess comprehension of key concepts and ideas from the unit.
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Interactive Student Notebooks
Creates opportunity for students to reflect and apply what they learn. 1. Engage students. 2. Make notebooks easy for you and fun for the students, 3, Preview activities that allow students to make personal connections 4. Guided reading through creative Reading Notes. 5. Processing assignments to challenge students to apply their new learning.
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Writing for Understanding
Interactive experiences that allows students to write strongly and in detail about social studies concepts. 1. Using writing to assist students in learning social studies concepts. 2. Rich experiences for students to write about. 3. Prewriting activities to have students document their ideas, thoughts and feelings. 4. Produce authentic writing assignments. 5. Help students through the writing process.
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Carol Ann Tomlinson
Video of Carol Ann Tomlinson discussing: 1. Readiness on differentiated instructions 2. Student Interest 3. Learning Profiles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMvCd5Xafag |