district social studies training tuesday, july 28 th & wednesday, 29 th

DISTRICT SOCIAL STUDIES TRAINING

Tuesday, July 28th & Wednesday, 29th

Curriculum Coach Role

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Role as Social Studies Curriculum & Instructional Coach:

Curriculum Specialist – work together with you to support and model instruction, develop pacing and training locate effective resourcesCo-Fixer – will help you enhance instruction or solve challenges based on goals you setFacilitate Collaboration – help you build networks with colleagues to meet content and instructional needs

Pathway to Pacing

1. Go to myIPS.org 2. Click on “Who we are” and then

“Divisions” 3. Next, click on “Academics” and then

“Curriculum and Instruction” 4. Locate “Grade 7/8” or “Secondary

Social Studies” 5. Finally, click on Pacing Guides or

Pacing Resources in each content area

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Locating Resources

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Pacing Guide Sample

Consider standards foundation for mastery learning

Breakdown or “deconstruct” standards

• KUD – Know, Understand, Do

• Helps backward design

Use essential questions and target questions to frame learning goal

Pacing Guide Resources

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Session 1: Content Area Literacy Standards Presenter: Bruce Blomberg, IDOE, Social

Studies Specialist Link to Mr. Blomberg’s Literacy

Presentation Drop Box: http://tinyurl.com/p75tyo6

You can find lessons on “needs and wants” under Curriculum and Instruction links as Social Studies Resource Documents

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Session 2: Everfi

Presenter: Ben Gwynne, Everfi School Outreach bgwynne@everfi.com/314-384-3931

Link to Everfi website and registration: http://www.everfi.com/

See Everfi “Quick Start Guide” under Curriculum and Instruction links as Social Studies Resource Documents

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Session 3: Economics Across the Content Presenter: Dr. Mohammad Kaviani, Director,

Center for Economic Education mkaviani@iupui.edu Terry Crews, center coordinator:

tcrews@iupui.edu Link to the Center for Economic Education (IUPUI)

http://www.econed-in.org/center_iupui.asp See calendar at their site for Econ Camp for

teachers: http://www.econed-in.org/econcamp.asp

You can find lessons on “needs and wants” under Curriculum and Instruction links as Social Studies Resource Documents

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Session 4: National History Day

Presenter: Matt Durrett, coordinator, Indiana Historical Society and National History Day mdurrett@indianahistory.org

Teacher presenters: Troy Hammon and Tobi Elmore

Link to NHD site and IHS workshops: http://www.nhd.org/ http://www.indianahistory.org/teachers-stud

ents/history-day/history-day-workshops#.VcTATflViko

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Session 5: Historical Thinking and Essential Questions

Presenter: Eric Heagy, district social studies coach heagye@myips.org

Links to great sites organized around historical thinking and essential questions: Video: http://

teachinghistory.org/historical-thinking-intro Historical Thinking Matters:

http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/teachers/ Reading Like an Historian: https://

sheg.stanford.edu/rlh You can find documents to help create

“essential questions” under Curriculum and Instruction links as Social Studies Resource Documents

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