SS Instructional Leadership Academy
Meeting 2: December 3, 2014 8:30-3:30
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Icebreaker
Supporting Process Skills
Think-Ink-Pair-Share
What strategies are you using to support your students' acquisition and mastery of these process skills?
Strategy Highlight: Image Analysis
Image Analysis Suggestions
Find the verbs:
- Which verb is largest (and thus appears more times in the TEKS)?
- How might this impact your instruction? assessments?
Find the nouns:
- Which noun is largest?
- How might this impact your instruction? assessments?
Find the process skills:
etc...
Using ArcGIS for Spatial Analysis in All Social Studies Education
TEA Update
Key Points:
- New graduation plans begin with this year's incoming freshmen
- Combined World History/World Geography course not available yet (indefinitely?)
- 2015 STAAR tests will be released
- This year's passing standard is at Level 2, Phase-in 1
- What are the implications of this information for your department?
- If/When your principal asks about how to structure the social studies department for the 15-16 school year, what advise might you give him/her?
Instructional Materials Review
You will have time to review the instructional materials being considered for adoption by the AISD Textbook Committee. Pease complete a feedback form that contains specific information rather than just "Good" or "Great"
Lunch and Learn
Unconference
Assessing Historical Thinking Skills...
"Teaching for transfer, or teaching for meaning, involves enabling students not only to remember and understand but also to use knowledge in increasingly more complex ways (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001)" from Susan Brookhart's How to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills in your Classroom
The AISD High School Social Studies Team
Jessica Jolliffe, Social Studies Supervisor
Melanie Kirchhof, High School Specialist
Amber Rinehart, Curriculum Technology Specialist
Rob Hillhouse, Secondary Social Studies ELL Specialist
Angie Green, Social Studies and ELA Special Education Curriculum Specialist
Email: melanie.kirchhof@austinisd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/austinisd.org/socialstudies/
Phone: (512) 414-1274
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/austinisd.socialstudies
Twitter: @AISDSoc