curriculum+document+notes


 * Student Performance Summary:**

Teachers will have access to a cross grade level website on which they will share appropriate performance based tasks meant to both contextualize social studies instruction and to act as models of assessment.

Appropriateness of performance tasks are related to the essential questions and enduring understandings specified at a particular grade level in a particular unit of study.

Example of what this looks like? Example: A first grade teacher logs onto the district wiki to better understand the unit of study on "needs and wants". She follows a link to a video clip shared by one member of the social studies committee and shares it with her class.

After students view the film, she holds a small discussion with the students during which she gets a more detailed understanding of what students already know / are able to do in relation to the essential question of this unit and what they are still struggling with.

Based on this contextualized, student centered information, the teacher plans her unit of instruction accordingly, using the materials and suggestions already provided on the wiki. Additionally this teacher accesses shared resources in the bookroom to supplement student "just right" reading opportunities.


 * Process Skills:**

Given the inquiry based approach to social studies put forth in this document, it is difficult to characterize an essential list of skills for all students. However, this list will detail the possible skills and strategies that teachers will utilize when providing differentiated instruction to students in the social studies classroom.

Use the existing list, consider: non-fiction reading strategies: Reading an image Using context clues Reading infographics (charts, maps, graphs) Understanding primary sources

non-fiction writing strategies: Organizing information Understanding Sources Presenting information Awareness of audience

Research strategies Technological Strategies (Creation of presentations via software (e.g: powerpoint, publisher, websites etc.) )

Project possibilities and their accompanying rubrics are currently shared on the district wiki and will be continually added and updated throughout the school year. Teacher generated assessments and rubrics are closely tied to the essential questions and enduring understandings put forth by the committee.
 * Grading Guidelines:**

We can copy and paste the particular enduring understandings for a given grade level into this section. We might consolidate and place the "learning resources" and "technology resources" into this section as well.
 * Goals and Standards:**