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Matt Esterman

National Curriculum - 38 views

In Year 11 students have to complete a research assignment that is mandated by the syllabus, however at our school we basically gave them the list of personalities they could study. I was pushing f...

national curriculum history study research

started by Matt Esterman on 30 May 09 6 follow-ups, last by Matt Esterman on 05 Jul 09
Nick Makin

National Curriculum Resources - 15 views

We are holding off on resources at the moment. I have our faculty working on the unit plans before we look at the texts available. I feel many of the publishers have tried to jump the gun, and publ...

national curriculum nc history

started by David Hilton on 13 May 11 1 follow-up, last by Nick Makin on 14 May 11
Todd Murdock

Power Standards: Focusing on the Essential - 0 views

justaskpublications.com/...power-standards

Power Standards

shared by Todd Murdock on 19 Feb 24 - No Cached
  • Very often, teachers operate under the assumption that all standards are equally important and that they have to ensure that students are taught all of the standards with the same level of intensity each year.
  • The danger of delivering standards that are an inch deep and a mile wide is that students will inevitably leave a grade level or course with gaps in their learning.
  • prioritize certain standards and performance indicators, rather than giving each of them an equal amount of  attention in the curriculum and on assessments.
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  • teachers collaboratively prioritize their standards
  • requires teachers to look at the standards vertically. This vertical alignment allows teachers to identify important prerequisite skills students need
  • higher quality assessments
  • aligned, purposeful, and essential in identifying those students in need of intervention, remediation, or enrichment.
  • If a collaborative approach to prioritizing standards is not used, then teachers are forced to choose what they feel is essential. Often those decisions are based on a teacher’s comfort level, availability of resources, or personal preferences. This approach does not give all students access to a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
  • narrowing the focus
  • It is far easier for teachers to go in depth when they have fewer priority standards
  • deepening students’ understanding of essential content, strategies, and skills
  • debate and discuss the significance of the standards they teach
  • easier for teachers to choose high quality resources
  • teachers have clarity around what is essential to teach
  • We call these prioritized standards “power standards.”
  • distinguishes the standards that are essential for student success
  • “those standards that, once mastered, give a student the ability to use reasoning and thinking skills to learn and understand other curriculum objectives.”
  • support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
    • Todd Murdock
      Todd Murdock on 19 Feb 24
       
      Part of the problem is that the students don't see many REAL world (ie popular in media) examples of this. They have unsubstantiated claims from both side, demonization of the other side instead of discussion and debate over content and ideas.
  • learning that is essential for success
  • goes beyond one course or grade level
  • important in life
  • students will need to read informational texts proficiently and substantiate their claims using evidence from the text when reading, writing, and speaking
  • multidisciplinary connections
  • relevant in other disciplines
  • learning that is applied both within the content area and in other content areas
  • standard represents learning that is essential for success
  • Does this standard contain prerequisite content
  • think of a triple Venn Diagram, and that for the overall success of students each circle in that Venn Diagram has equal importance
  • skills necessary for the next
  • power standards are those that teachers will spend most of their instructional time teaching
  • standards emphasized on state and national assessments
  • focus of teacher assessments
  • If every teacher in the grade level or course is emphasizing something different, you do not have a guaranteed curriculum for students.
  • Not all standards are equally important at every grade level or in every course
  • work collaboratively in vertical teams
Mr Maher

Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving - 4 views

backstoryradio.org/...pilgrims-and-progress.pdf

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shared by Mr Maher on 15 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • Mr Maher on 15 Nov 16
     
    This academically rigorous article may be beyond even the highest functioning AP US History students. But all teachers will find this article aiming a question directly at their curriculum - Do you teach a myth as a cultural affirmation? The essay argues that "traveling home to turkey and all the trimmings was "invented", not in 17th century Massachusetts, but in 19th century Philadelphia in the pages of the nation's most widely circulated magazines and in respond to the changing American scene. Two hundred years after the Pilgrims' quit commemorations, Thanksgiving developed a uniform national profile, impelled by its promoters ideas about republican identity, ideas diffused by a publishing industry with increasingly national reach"
David Hilton

Modern History Draft Summary - 8 views

www.slideshare.net/...modern-history-draft-summary

acara national curriculum nc senior history australia overview

shared by David Hilton on 18 Jul 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 18 Jul 10
     
    This is a helpful overview of the senior years Australian National Curriculum course being introduced by ACARA, prepared by Annabel. Thanks Annabel!
David Hilton

World History Connected | Vol. 3 No. 1 | David Christian: What's the Use of "Big History?" - 9 views

www.historycooperative.org/...christian.html

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shared by David Hilton on 15 Dec 10 - Cached
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  • David Hilton on 15 Dec 10
     
    Our new National Curriculum takes a world history approach, which is a new direction for history in my State. This is an interesting argument for big-picture, as opposed to civilisational or thematic, approaches to conceptualising history. 
David Hilton

National Curriculum??? - 5 views

national curriculum history acara administration

started by David Hilton on 02 May 10 no follow-up yet
Ed Webb

Amid Protest, Hong Kong Retreats on 'Moral Education' Plan - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...n-on-moral-education-plan.html

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  • HONG KONG — Faced with tens of thousands of protesters contending that a Beijing-backed plan for “moral and national education” amounted to brainwashing and political indoctrination, Hong Kong’s chief executive backpedaled on Saturday and revoked a 2015 deadline for every school to start teaching it.
  • For the past 10 days, swelling protests against the plan were the latest sign of a new interest in political activism by youths here, and there were some signs that this activism could be spreading in mainland China for the first time since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
  • The police initially detained 21 protesters but released them a day later as the crowds swelled. The smelting project itself has been canceled and shows no sign of being restarted, several Shifang residents said, adding that the city had been completely quiet ever since the protests.
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  • The national education curriculum — contemporary Chinese history with a heavy dose of nationalism and a favorable interpretation of the Communist Party’s role — was originally supposed to be phased in school by school starting with the academic year that began last Monday. But only a handful of schools have begun teaching the subject.
David Hilton

National Centre for History Education - Commonwealth History Project :: Home - 0 views

hyperhistory.org

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shared by David Hilton on 22 Sep 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 22 Sep 09
     
    Has some relevant curriculum materials for Australian history, however I can't help but feel that this kind of thing is like a shining brand-new horse-drawn carriage at the beginning of the twentieth century, unknowing that it has already been superseded...
Matt Esterman

Curriculum development timelines | ACARA - 5 views

www.acara.edu.au/lum_development_timelines.html

shared by Matt Esterman on 01 May 10 - Cached
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  • David Hilton on 02 May 10
     
    Thanks for adding that mate. I just went to a conference on the National Curriculum and came away less informed on what we have to do than before I went! Come to think of it, I might start a conversation on that.
Kay Bear

Mobile Museum Service - 6 views

I am conducting some general Market Research in relation to launching a new National mobile Museum Service that will provide a dynamic and flexible on-line and remotely accessible Museum service to...

started by Kay Bear on 15 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
Annabel Astbury

School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian - 10 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...school-history-gove-schama-tv

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shared by Annabel Astbury on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • His key episodes are based not around a grand organising narrative but a series of vignettes that make compelling stories.
  • If history is popular on TV, it can be made popular at school.
  • Teachers developed new methods, shifting away from chronology and narrative to topics and themes, where the emphasis was placed on "skills" of analysis over the regurgitation of facts.
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  • . History in schools, they argue
  • without providing any connecting narrative thread that explains their relationship with each other. The solution is a return to narrative history, to a big story that will organise and make sense of historical experience.
  • Nonetheless, it remains an announcement that tells us more about the contradictions of government thinking and its reductive view of the humanities and social sciences than it does about the state of history teaching in our schools.
  • I agree with Schama that the real public value of history-teaching in schools (as in universities) lies in its capacity to re-animate our civil society and produce an engaged and capable citizenry. I disagree that good story-telling will get you there
  • History provides us with a set of analytical skills that are indispensable for citizens who want to understand our present conditions
  • We want students who aren't just entertained, but who can think critically and effectively about the world they live in.
  • For the creative and innovative teacher it may have been something of a constraint, but most now agree it led to a ‘golden age’ of history teaching in primary schools in the 1990s and ensured every child covered a coherent history syllabus from 11-14 without repeating topics. It also spawned a generation of excellent and accessible teaching materials and encouraged heritage organisations to provide for a standard history curriculum
  • Regardless this return to grand narrative and national myth goes against the very progress we as academic historians have made. History is more to do with how we think and evaluate things, the tools we use to come to conclusions than about dates and conveniently accessible stories self legitimatising the status quo.
David Hilton

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time - 3 views

www.usdebtclock.org

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shared by David Hilton on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 12 Jan 10
     
    It's not strictly speaking history-related however most of us also teach social studies or something similar and it was just too cool to pass up. An excellent way of demonstrating to students the issues regarding the current Western economic model and the Chimerica conundrum. Scary.
Sallee Humanities

Why the Black Death was the mother of all plagues - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting C... - 10 views

www.abc.net.au/...3555568

history black-death plague medieval europe c15th c16th ABC National-Curriculum

shared by Sallee Humanities on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
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  • Sallee Humanities on 13 Oct 11
     
    This one is at least recent - some good discussion and links after the article also.
Sallee Humanities

Black death › Dr Karl's Great Moments In Science (ABC Science) - 6 views

www.abc.net.au/...2031252.htm

history black-death plague medieval europe c15th c16th National-Curriculum

shared by Sallee Humanities on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
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  • Sallee Humanities on 13 Oct 11
     
    This one has an audio file - I am using this to help low literacy students with reading comprehension.  Will get them to read the text while I play the audio.
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