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North Carolina Social StudiesEssential StandardsProfessional Development

2012What do you know about the new Social Studies Essential Standards?

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Adoption of Essential Standards+Legislative Changes

A State Led Effort to Develop Common Standards in Social Studies

January, 2010NCSS and the Civic Mission of Schools (CMS) convened a meeting to discuss working together on Common State Standards for Social Studies.

Summer, 2010Professional organizations began to confer with Social Studies Assessment Curriculum and Instruction, a collaborative of the Council of Chief State School Officers

October, 2010Three meetings through There is now a shared framework focused on ways of May, 2011 of thinking about civics, economics, geography, and history. The ultimate goal is to produce a set of fewer, higher, clearer standards that prepare all students for college, career, and citizenship.

Professional Organizations Involved in Developing a National Common Core in Social StudiesAmerican Association of Geographers American Bar AssociationAmerican Historical Association Center for Civic EducationCivic Mission of Schools Campaign National History DayConstitutional Rights Foundation/USA Street Law, Inc.Constitutional Rights Foundation/Chicago World History AssociationCouncil for Economic Education National Geographic SocietyNational Council for Geographic EducationNational Council for the Social StudiesNational Council for History Education

Legislation Impacting K-12 Social Studies

Session Law 2009-504: An Act Requiring Credit Education For All Studentshttp://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1474v5.pdf

Public schools shall provide instruction in personal financial literacy for all students. This instruction shall include: The true cost of credit Choosing and managing a credit card Borrowing money for an automobile or other large purchase Home mortgages Credit scoring and credit reports Other relevant financial literacy issues

The State Board requires that personal financial literacy be included in the Civics and Economics Course. The new Civics and Economics Essential Standards include standards for Personal Financial Literacy.NCDPI Personal Financial Literacy site: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/pfl/educators/

Session Law 2009-236 House Bill 1032: Act Modifying The History And Geography Curricula In The Public Schools http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1032v6.pdf

The standard course of study shall include the requirement that the public schools provide to all students one yearlong course of instruction on North Carolina history and geography in elementary school and one yearlong course of instruction in middle school on North Carolina history with United States history integrated into this instruction.

Session Law 2011-273 House Bill 588: The Founding Principles Acthttp://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H588v6.pdf

Requires students to take a semester/year-long course called American History I The Founding Principles and receive a passing grade as a requirement for graduation. The United States History I course meets the requirements of the legislation. Consequently, the US History I course has been renamed to American History I: The Founding Principles.

Session Law 2011-8 House Bill 48:No Standardized Testing Unless Required by Federal Governmenthttp://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H48v4.pdf

Eliminated statewide standardized testing in the public schools, except as required by federal law or as a condition of a federal grant. This effectively eliminated both the Civics and Economics and the United States History End-of-Course tests beginning with the 2011-12 school year.

Given the legislative constraints, What do we truly want students to learn in social studies?

Discuss

Lets see whats included in the new Essentials.Lets look at the new Social Studies Essential Standards from kindergarten through high school.

Use 2010 Social Studies Essential Standards: Meeting the Needs of All Students in the 21st Century to see the content K-12.

How are the K-12 Social Studies Essential Standardsdifferent from the Standard Course of Study?

Use of five strands

Conceptual focus

Use of Revised Blooms Taxonomy

How are the Social Studies Essential Standards different from the Standard Course of Study?

1st Major shift-Use of five strands

StrandsH HistoryG Geography and Environmental LiteracyE Economics and Financial LiteracyC&G Civics and GovernmentC Culture

What grade is this?Which strand is this?

What grade is this? 7thWhich strand is this? Geography and Environmental Literacy3.C&G.2.2 Exemplify how citizens contribute to the well-being of the communitys natural environment.

8.E.1.1 Explain how conflict, cooperation, and competition influenced periods of economic growth and decline (e.g. economic depressions and recessions).

AH.H.8.1Analyze the relationship between innovation, economic development, progress and various perceptions of the American Dream through Reconstruction.

What grade is each of these?Which strand is each of these?3.C&G.2.2 3rd grade Civics and GovernmentExemplify how citizens contribute to the well-being of the communitys natural environment.

8.E.1.1 8th grade EconomicsExplain how conflict, cooperation, and competition influenced periods of economic growth and decline (e.g. economic depressions and recessions).

AH.H.8.1 American History, History strandAnalyze the relationship between innovation, economic development, progress and various perceptions of the American Dream through Reconstruction.

What grade is each of these?Which strand is each of these?2st Major Shift-A curriculum that is based on concepts and generalizations, North Carolina Essential Standards

27Teachers really need to be involved in this process or nothing will change.Concepts are Timeless Universal Transferable Abstract and broadRepresented by 1-2 wordsExamples share common attributes

North Carolina HistoryU.S. HistoryWorld HistorySociologyGeographyEconomicsSome Concepts:Rules/LawsValuesConflict InterdependenceFairnessDiversityPowerRightsAdaptationMovementDiffusionDemocracyRegionSelf InterestGovernmentCooperationCompromiseAggressionInnovationLeadershipUnderstanding concepts is ultimately what enables students to transfer understandings learned in one time/place setting to a new time and place even a setting with which they have no previous acquaintance. When we teach concepts we allow our students to transcend the settings that we have taught.-John Hergesheimer29The kids already understand these concepts as they apply to family, sports, friendship, education, etc. They have numerous examples already. Our job is simply to help them learn about other examples of the same concept.Principles and GeneralizationsConceptConceptTopicFACTFACTFACTFACTFACTFACT

People migrate to meet a variety of needs.

MigrateNeedsU.S. movement west8th grade or American HistoryManifest DestinyTrail Of TearsGold, furs, and farmingRailroad

ConceptsFactsTopicPrinciples and Generalizations

People migrate to meet a variety of needs.

MigrateNeedsLibyan Conflict 20117th grade or World HistoryGaddafiHuman Rights violationsCivil WarEgypt and U.K.

Principles and Generalizations ConceptsTopicFactsPeople migrate to meet a variety of needs.

MigrateNeedsAge of Exploration6th grade, 7th grade,World History or American History Sir Walter Raleigh Lost Colony freedom money

Principles and GeneralizationsTopicConceptsFactsConcept or Topic?environmentManifest DestinycultureGreat DepressionComputer AgemovementEconomic Systemcivil war

Discuss and categorize each word/phrase as a concept or a topic.

Answers to Activity

CONCEPTS TOPICSenvironmentManifest DestinycultureComputer AgemovementGreat civil war Depression Economic System time specific, not universal

3nd Major ChangeRBTRevised Blooms Taxonomy

Revised Blooms Taxonomy

Provides the cognitive framework used for all of the North Carolina Essential Standards

Provides common language for all curriculum areas

Use of one verb

Revised BloomsNot hierarchical

2 dimensions- knowledge is a dimension

Nouns to verb

Review

How are the Social Studies Essential Standards different from the current North Carolina Standard Course of Study?

Use of five strandsConceptual focusUse of Revised Blooms Taxonomy

Unpacking the New Essential Standards

Vertical AlignmentIn your grade level groups, organize the items in the order you think they occur in the Essential Standards. Begin with the kindergarten level and move through 8th grade.The high school courses may be grouped together and labeled with course names; World, Civics and Economics, American History I and Founding Principles and American History II.

Lets Look Closerat the New Essential Standards

Concepts/Transferable Generalizations / Enduring Understandings

1. Students will understand that Examples:

Systems are interdependent.

People adapt to changing environments.

2. Students will knowFactual knowledge, memorized knowledgeCritical factual knowledge for understanding the unit generalizations.

Critical factual knowledge for competency with the unit topics.

Non-transferablelocked in time, place or situation

Examples:

key vocabulary specific to the topic

the causes of the American Revolution

dates and places

the names and contributions of specific historical figures in our community

3. Students will be able to do(skills)Taken (often verbatim) from the State Skill Standards

Transfer across applications

Not tied to a specific topic (attaching a skill to a specific topic makes it an activity or a performance.)

New literacy skills in social studies

Examples:

Create tables, graphs and charts to display geographic data.

Analyze primary and secondary source documents to evaluate historical information.

Use context clues in reading to determine meaning.

Complete New Essential Standards documentshttp://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/new-standards/Unpacking the Standards documentshttp://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/support-tools/

Looking Deeper

Annotating the Standards 1. Draw a line to separate each strand in your grade level. 2. Underline the verb(s) in each objective.

3. Place a star next to the most challenging objective in each strand. Discussion and Questions

Literacy Standards inHistory/Social Studies, Science and the Technical Arts

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf

Examples of Information Text for Grades 6-8

Comments?

Text Complexity

Grade Old Lexile New CCR Lexile 23 450725 450790 45 645845 770980 68 8601010 9551155 910 9601115 1080130511CCR 10701220 12151355

Lexile ScoresThere are two kinds of Lexile measures: the Lexile reader measure and the Lexile text measure. Students receive a Lexile reader measure as a score from a reading test - it describes his or her reading ability. Books and other texts receive a Lexile text measure from a software tool called the Lexile Analyzer - it describes the book's reading demand or difficulty.http://www.lexile.com/

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What are three things you learned today?What two questions do you still have?What one topic do you need more time to address?