Session 3: How Do We Get There?

Integrating Understanding by Design and Historical

Thinking

1. Utilize the backward design framework for planning curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

2. Develop a “macro-curriculum” that outlines the big ideas, enduring understandings, essential questions, and effective strategies for 6-12 social studies.

3. Infuse historical thinking strategies to grasp enduring understandings and essential questions.

Strand Benchmarks

Session Three Indicators

Develop strategies for introducing and unpacking big ideas and essential questions

Cultivate skill sets necessary to prepare students for performance-based assessments

Review and revise learning plans that are designed to unpack big ideas and prepare students for performance-based assessments

How Do We Get There?

What content and skills are necessary to master the enduring understandings and complete the performance task assessments? Previewing Content Unpacking Content Developing Skills

Previewing Content

On separate sticky notes, list 2-3 strategies for previewing content

As a group, identify common/similar strategies among group members

Previewing Content

Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers Accessing Prior Knowledge – Cognitive

Learning Theory Essential Questions Advance Organizers

Expository – straightforward description of new content – may be written or visual (e.g. United Streaming)

Narrative – Stories Skimming – quickly reading upcoming

information Graphic – KWL and Modifications

Previewing Content

Anticipation Guides1. Identify the major concepts of the lesson2. Identify ways in which students’ beliefs with

be either supported or challenged3. Create statements for the Anticipation Guide4. Decide how to present the Anticipation Guide5. Assign the reading/complete the lesson6. Students compare initial and final responses7. The whole class discusses the final responses

• As a group, select a unit/lesson and corresponding essential questions and develop an anticipation guide

Unpacking Content

On separate sticky notes, list 2-3 strategies for unpacking content

As a group, identify common/similar strategies among group members

Unpacking Content

Summarizing and Notetaking Requires substituting, deleting – getting

at the essential ideas The selection of readings to summarize is

critical in teaching for understanding Summarizing through a Wiki –

http://www.pbworks.com

Summarizing with a Wiki

http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/~ahistory/apwhreview/

Unpacking Content

Note taking Cause and Effect Organizers Cornell Notes SQ3R

Survey Question Read Recite Review

Similarities and Differences Classifying Analogies Metaphors

Unpacking Content

Discussion Strategies Think-Pair-Share Talking Stick Circles Socratic Seminar Fishbowl Discussion Assertion Jar

Checking for Understanding

Developing Skills

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts Read pp. 63-65; 70-75 What is meant by the concept of “actual

reader” and “mock reader”? How does the “Think Aloud” strategy

enhance understanding of historical text?

Developing Skills

DBQs Analyzing types of primary sources Spiral Questions Thinking Aloud strategy

Spanish-American War Example Scopes Trial Example More examples-

www.historicalthinkingmatters.org Historical Thinking graphic organizer Shaping the Essay

Developing Skills

Primary sources and document analysis do not have to be intimidating Primary source readers “Tampering with History”

Historical Investigation Same source analysis skills required – but

the sources are not pre-selected and summarized

Additional required skills?

Developing Skills

Role Play and Simulation Choices Approach

Same source analysis skills Additional required skills? Scaffolding

Reader’s Theater

Mock Trial/Debate Same source analysis skills Additional required skills?

Refining Learning Plans

Working in grade level teams- discuss each learning plan and how each plan could be adapted in light of the information and strategies presented in today’s session

Reorganize into “Big Ideas” groups and share the newly revised learning plans