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Todd Murdock

Power Standards: Focusing on the Essential - 0 views

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Power Standards

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  • 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
Ian Gabrielson

Classroomtools.com Lesson Idea: Cartoonist for a Day - 7 views

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  • Ian Gabrielson on 12 Dec 12
     
    "Cartoonist for a Day"
Ian Gabrielson

Top Ten Tips for Facilitating an Effective Primary Source Analysis | Teaching with the ... - 11 views

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    "Top Ten Tips for Facilitating an Effective Primary Source Analysis"
Ed Webb

British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg - Telegraph - 9 views

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  • "Other countries could write similar books – but they would be much shorter. I don't think anyone could match this, although the Americans had a later start and have been working hard on it in the twentieth century."
  • The only other nation which has achieved anything approaching the British total, Mr Laycock said, is France – which also holds the unfortunate record for having endured the most British invasions.
  • Mr Laycock added: "One one level, for the British, it is quite amazing and quite humbling, that this is all part of our history, but clearly there are parts of our history that we are less proud of. The book is not intended as any kind of moral judgment on our history or our empire. It is meant as a light-hearted bit of fun." The countries never invaded by the British: Andorra Belarus Bolivia Burundi Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of Guatemala Ivory Coast Kyrgyzstan Liechtenstein Luxembourg Mali Marshall Islands Monaco Mongolia Paraguay Sao Tome and Principe Sweden Tajikistan Uzbekistan Vatican City
Ed Webb

First the Nightmare, Then the News - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 29 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • to get an impression of the nature of a person, one has to see him in motion. So much is contained in the posture of the body, the position of the hands, the movement of the eyes.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 29 Apr 12
       
      I've been turning this over since I first read this last week - on Shakespeare's birthday, actually. How true is this? Can we not get a sense of the nature of a person who existed before video technology existed? Are those who exist for us only as text and artefacts irretrievable? I don't think so. But what, precisely, is missing in the absence of this data of how people move?
Christy Hanna

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/index.html - 13 views

I think this is a great website for learning about the Irish Potato Famine. The information is interesting and consise. A must read!

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Fabian Aguilar

Hijacking History | The Texas Tribune - 12 views

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  • Fabian Aguilar on 12 Jan 10
     
    Texas Freedom Network
  • Nicole Avery on 14 Jan 10
     
    Great article. I find myself everyday in the classroom wondering if my choice of content, my presentation of it, my choices of words, etc. leans to the left or the right. It's impossible to provide unbiased commentary, but I sure do try. Nothing is worse than a social studies teacher who insists on forcing their political views on students!
  • David Hilton on 14 Jan 10
     
    I hear you! I come from a background on the left, and sometimes quite suddenly when I'm explaining something to the class I'll hear my own voice and realise how partisan what I'm saying sounds. I found an excellent diagram of left and right ( http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/left-vs-right/ ) which I put up on the door so that at least the students might become more aware of the political spectrum and how it influences people's beliefs. Perhaps the best we can do is show the students how their political assumptions play out in their opinions so that as self-aware citizens they can at least make conscious choices... The right doesn't have much sway in education in Australia; I think the district board system over there in some areas (if you don't mind me saying...) gets hijacked sometimes by extremists by the looks of it. I've read some fascinating articles on how textbooks are approved in parts of the States which was quite surprising (the Intelligent Design debate I guess is an example).
David Hilton

The History Teacher's Attic - 1 views

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  • Jason Heiser on 22 Jul 09
     
    Materials for SS teacher
  • David Hilton on 09 Sep 09
     
    Contains many interesting perspectives and resources for history and social studies teachers. I use Bloglines to subscribe to blogs like this and keep them all in one place. Google Reader is also popular, I think. If you subscribe to good quality blogs like this then all you have to remember is the address of your blog reader and you can come across many interesting viewpoints from people who are actually in the classroom - not ideologically-driven careerists who publish through official documents from their ivory towers and have long since left the classroom! Long live educational democracy! Viva la revolution!
Daniel Ballantyne

Technology a key tool in writing instruction | Community | eSchoolNews.com - 9 views

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  • Students should have an opportunity to write for a real audience and collaborate on writing projects, experts say—and the internet can help
  • The report found that the use of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and comics-creating software can heighten students’ engagement and enhance their writing and thinking skills in all grade levels and across all subjects.
  • First, every student needs one-on-one access to computers or mobile technology in classrooms.
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  • Second, every teacher needs professional development in the effective use of digital tools for teaching and learning, including the use of digital tools to promote writing. Teachers need an opportunity to use technology themselves so they can share what they learn with the students
  • Finally, all schools and districts need a comprehensive technology policy to ensure that the necessary infrastructure, technical support, and resources are available for teaching and learning.
  • Daniel Ballantyne on 07 Nov 10
     
    Technology a key tool in writing instruction
Aaron Palm

Socialist Party of America - 5 views

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  • Upton Sinclair, letter to Norman Thomas (25th September, 1951)
  • American People will take Socialis
  • m, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to "End Poverty in California" I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use at
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  • tacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.
David Hilton

Slavery in the North - 0 views

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shared by David Hilton on 23 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 23 Jul 09
     
    An interesting resource for the study of African slavery in the northern states of the US. I think they're trying to make a point. It gives secondary source information and also some quotes from primary sources on the topic.
David Hilton

Course: Mrs. Daniels' Enriched World History - 2 views

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  • David Hilton on 22 Sep 09
     
    A very good example (I think) of how lms's (learning management systems - don't worry, I had to google it) such as Moodle or BlackBoard can be used with your history classes. Essentially every history teacher can take on the role of textbook writer, thus returning the teacher to the position of expert. And that's got to be a good thing! Well done Mrs Daniels. You're a trailblazer.
David Hilton

The Staffordshire Hoard - 0 views

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  • Denis MOOTZ on 24 Sep 09
     
    Discovery of largest Saxon treasure hoard...may require rethink of 'Dark Ages'.
  • David Hilton on 25 Sep 09
     
    How amazing is this find! Three times the size of Sutton Hoo. And found by an unemployed bloke with a metal detector. Isn't it about time we stopped using the Gibbonesque term 'Dark Ages'? I think there's increasing evidence that the 'Dark' and 'Middle' Ages (it's defined in terms of ancient & modern - how rude!) were not the backstep that most people have assumed. Feel free to disagree! (Sorry for the continuing bonhomie, I'm still on holidays).
David Hilton

BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Young Minds Force-Fed With Indigestible Texts - The New York Times - 0 views

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censorship textbooks history teaching pc education articles

shared by David Hilton on 09 Jul 09 - Cached
  • As for the teaching of history, Ms. Ravitch argues, the sort of censorship being practiced today by textbook publishers can result in all manner of distortions and simplifications. For instance, to insist that depictions of women as nurses, elementary-school teachers, clerks, secretaries, tellers and librarians perpetuate demeaning stereotypes is to minimize ''the barriers that women faced,'' and to pretend ''that the gender equality of the late 20th and early 21st centuries was a customary condition in the past.''
  • David Hilton on 09 Jul 09
     
    I wonder what everyone else thinks of this type of criticism of education today. Are we watering-down the curriculum due to ideological pre-occupations?
David Hilton

The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960 - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 04 Jul 09
     
    A collection of over 8000 photos from East Africa from 1860-1960. Probably useful for classroom resources (you know, stick 'em on a worksheet, that type of thing), assessment pieces or in student research. I found with my year 12s that they needed some guidance on how to extract historical information from images ('thinking historically') but after that they used images like these well in their research for their assignments.
David Hilton

National Constitution Center: Founding Documents - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 20 Jul 09
     
    A collection of the 'Founding Documents' of the US, which interestingly (and I think accurately) include the Magna Carta.
David Hilton

UK Parliament Debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 04 Jul 09
     
    This site has debates from the UK House of Commons (I don't think The Lords is included) that go back at least to World War II. The purpose of the site is to raise public awareness, however it is useful to the historian as a source.
David Hilton

Early Korea Project: Images - 0 views

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shared by David Hilton on 30 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 30 Jun 09
     
    There's not much here really, just a few images of archaeological sites and artefacts from Korea but given that's not a place you see much about I've included them. When I lived there I visited the significant sites but usually they were uninspiring and accompanied by a sign that read something like: 'This is [insert Korean place name] which was destroyed by the evil marauding Japanese in [insert year]'. No love lost there, I think...
David Hilton

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Collections / Institutes - 1 views

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shared by David Hilton on 30 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 30 Jun 09
     
    A collection of Asian artefacts and documents (I think) provided by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. I guess that's Berlin Museum or something.
David Hilton

The History Place - Child Labor in America - 2 views

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shared by David Hilton on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 21 Jul 09
     
    A collection of photos of child labour in the USA, mainly I think in the C19th and early C20th.
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