8/23

• Introduction: 
• EDN 405/LIC 505Class List - check

•  Background to the course: 

• Goals of the course:

1) Develop your thinking about teaching social studies

2) Prepare you with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to be a successful teacher.

Employment  Teacher Shortage Report

• Your Role:

        What are your goals for the course?
        What are your goals in teaching social studies?

• Syllabus

• Intros: Name, where you identify with; things about yourself; why teach social studies

• File folders.
• Class list:
• Field Experience Form – my form and forms for Deron Fort (WSE Field Experience Coord.)
• Field Experience: R. Smith will coordinate. Mrs. Dempsey will assist with supervision and grading of assignments for SS, Science, Eng.
• Plan to meet with MAT students at 7:30 each week.
• Peer Teach -sign up for next week

 NC Curriculum, National Standards in Social  Studies. 

• Write paper "My thoughts on Teaching Social Studies."
• Read and respond to the two articles (1-2 pages)
• Read over the syllabus and come ready to ask questions if unclear
• We will use TaskStream as our discussion board. Open a TaskStream account by Sunday (Guidance in opening an account).

TaskStream Training next Tuesday from 5-6 

Assignments Due

8/30

Goals of teaching Social Studies 

Socialization
                                                           

Questions related to course/syllabus?

Business:

• Field Experience: Tentative placements have been made.  Read over the requirements. Professionalism - present yourself as a teacher. Call and leave a message.

• PRAXIS Specialty Test in Social Studies is no longer required for licensure in NC (TF's?- Active link to Syllabus web page for prep. materials)

• Peer Teach sign up.  Format - refer to syllabus Rubric

• Taskstream - Discussion Board is working

Updates:

Sexual Assault: http://www.uncw.edu/news/taskforce/help.html

SAT Results

NC High School Exit Standards

Teaching Constitution

Teacher Salary Supplements

 Course is structured: start off with the big picture: High schools as a learning environment, Goals of teaching social studies etc. move in to more specifics strategies or methods

 Socialization  

Peer Teach: Carl & Robert            

                    Alan & Larry

Discuss Readings

Assignments for next week:

1)Read Sizer and Wigginton, post your response on   Discussion Board for Taskstream 

2)Social Identity Paper  

Thoughts on Teaching SS 

Readings
 1. Defining and Interpreting SS
2. Lost Generation

9/6

High School as a Learning Environment 

Lesson Plans

Business/Updates:

• Peer Teach - follow up

• Resource: Google earth

• 2 Assignments graded and in folder - 6 students got no paper on first readings.
• Homework
• Field Placements: Requirements, professional.

Your Development

• Goals for the course

• Components of Successful Social Studies Teaching

Goals of Teaching Social Studies

• Discussion of Readings - Citizenship

• 4 Goals of Teaching Social Studies

Peer Teach:

  Brooke & Molly

  Nicole & Kerry 

Planning:  Lesson Plans

Discuss Readings:

  High school as a Learning Environment:

Assignments for next week:

1) Two topics for Unit Plan - no justification

2) Print out "Strategies for Reinforcement" - Mrs Dombroski. Focus and Review

Social Identity Paper

Readings
1. What High School is 2. So What Did I Learn in School? 3. Docility

9/13

Planning:
Focus, Review, Closure and Long Range Plan

Business/Updates:

• Social Identity Papers

1.      Grades

2.      Limits of own experience

3.      Messages- some explicit, some "knew"

4.      Social Class and achievement

5.      Teacher background and student achievement NCLB Act.  Local Results

• Unit Plan - 2 Topics

Peer Teach: Brian, Leigh

View the Video and select 2 strategies that you would implement in your own class

 Unit Plan -Step 1

Two Topics
 

9/20

Planning: Focus and Review

Strategies for Teaching US History

High Schools and Reform
                                                            

Business/Updates:

• Social Identity Papers

1.  Grades

2.  Limits of own experience

3.  Messages- some explicit, some  "knew"

4.  Social Class and achievement

5.  Teacher background and student achievement NCLB Act.  Local Results

• SAT Principal

• Field Experience: extend first "round" from Oct 10 to Oct 17. Field log due Sept 26

• High school Reform: 9th Grade Academies; NC New Schools Project - International High School - Jacksonville, Outward Bound - Beaufort

• Goals of Teaching Social Studies:

        NC SS Curriculum Philosophy

        Performance Outcomes

Strategies for Focus, Review,  – Mrs Dombroski

Strategies for US History - Chris Garner

• Peer Teach – Leigh & Brian

                                 Megan & Leah

Assignment for next week: Unit Plan Rationale and Performance Outcomes (Submit via TaskStream. Share with one other person)

Guest Speaker Mr. Adams - print out handouts

Complete Professional Dispositions Assessment

 Unit Plan Step 1 Two Topics

9/27

  Strategies for Teaching Civics and Economics

Mandatory meeting for all secondary students planning to intern Spring 06, Monday October 31, 4:15-5:15pm, Education Building Room 162.

Business:

• Indicate plans for interning
• Unit Plan - Taskstream Assignment Directions
• Field Experience Log - collect
• Change in calendar - Battleship now later

Resources:

 US Strategies - slave advertisements, civil war letters

Video of Matt Stapleton teaching US History, New Hanover High Video Part 1, Video Part 2

2 Sample block Lesson Plans:

Glencoe Resources: http://www.glencoe.com

Assignment: Create a list of characteristics of effective teaching -

Unit Plan - Step 2 Rationale, Objectives and Performance Outcomes

10/4

Assessment, EOC's, Professionalism

Meeting National & State Standards for Licensure

Business/Updates:

• Teachers Pay

• Calendar Update

• Field Experience Logs Needed: Juliana, Robert T., Clay, Arenda

• Feedback forms will be sent to teachers next week – return date Oct 19th.

• Unit Plan TaskStream  Why important? Where are you going with it? Create Relevance - students, family, current events. Examples

        Use the NC curriculum guide

        Next week's Assignment

• Proposed Times for Individual Conferences

• Professional Dispositions

Meeting National Teaching Standards:

 INTASC Standards       

• Reflective Cycle - relate to process for peer teaching

• Assignment: 6 groups of 4. 2 Standards per group.

1. What does the standard mean ie? what do effective teachers do? Identify possible indicators.
2. Identify examples of evidence

• See Portfolio Assignment (Syllabus)

Peer Teach: Jessica & Robert

Characteristics of Effective Teaching.  Peer teach Rubric provides a start. 

Resources: 

Russ Adams: http://www.teacherweb.com/

Simulations Interact web site

Assignments for Next Week:

Unit Plan: 2 complete lesson plans – submit using TaskStream

Read: Ten Thematic Strands in SS; A Vision of Powerful Teaching in SS

 Performance Based Licensure

10/11

Unit Plan: Step 3

2 complete lesson plans

10/18

10/25

Battleship:  Learning Outside the Classroom

 Class

Reminder Orientation Meeting, Monday October 31, 4:15-5:15, Education Building 162 . Essential that you are all there.

Peer Teach next week.

Next week: Lesson Plan and Pre-assessment

Unit Plan -Step 4

11/1

Peer Micro Teaching

Business/Updates:

Battleship: UNCW News

Field Experience

• Partnership Teacher Evaluation - Praises

• Assignments

Unit Plans:- Great Work  TaskStream

Resources: Send to Deborah - dab9292@uncw.edu

Questions about Internship - for 3 Guests -spring 05 interns                              

Peer Teach: Order

Assignment: Article discussion. Improving the Success in School of Poor Black Children. Post response on TaskStream,  Discussion Board, SS Methods 05

Lesson Plan & Pre-assessment

11/8

Teaching Diverse Learners

Guest: Mrs. Gillespie

Business/Updates

Abstinence Only curriculum: 2/3 of NHC sophomores last year reported having had sex

2 Percent

Intern Schedule 06

MAT students to meet at the end of class

Assignments:

Peer Teach Pre, Post, Lesson plan

Next week: Post to Discussion Board -3 articles

 Reading

Improving the Success in School of Poor Black Children

11/15

Perspectives in Teaching Social Studies 
Internship Experience - 3 previous interns

Business/Updates:

Battleship follow up Guns Student Response

New York

Mrs. Gillespie: Teaching Diverse Learners

• Educational Change web site

Resources - lots of opportunities to share

Internship & First Year Teaching - Questions

Peer Teach: Jamie

Evaluating Portfolio Evidence INTASC Standards

Assignment:

• Bring to next class hard copies of 2 pieces of evidence, standards and reflections (for evidence, include only 1 page)

• Article discussion on TaskStream - Columbus...

Readings

1.Culture in Common, 2.Pluralize the      Curriculum

3. Multicultural Education for Freedom's Sake

11/22

Incorporating Technology,

Business/Updates

Resource: Justice Learning

Plimoth Plantation

Portfolio: Peer review

Technology:

Guest: Karen Ragazoo

Guidance in using technology

Peer Teach: Juliana & Clay

Resources:

Mrs. Best's Classroom Procedures

Hill Pearsall, lesson integrating technology Video 

Assignment: Portfolio - final copy,

                       Field Experience Report

Reading

Columbus the Indians and Human Progress

Portfolio - rough draft

11/29

Business/Updates:

Assignments Due (All students):

Field Experience Report and Portfolio posted

LIC 505 Leadership project &  Reading Module

Human Resource Depts.

NC Social Studies Conference - registration

Components of Successful SS Teaching

1) Complete "final" column

2) Citizenship as the goal of teaching social studies.

(The Head, the Heart and the Hand)

3) Whose Story? Perspectives in Social Studies

    Role of Teacher Background

1. Awareness of challenges/biases

2. Strategies to bridge the gap:

Teacher Voices

Research on Achievement Gap. Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress

Peer Teach: Aubrey

SPOTS

Final Reflections

Portfolio- final

Field Experience Report

Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement