New Ohio Academic Content Standards and

Online Textbook Roundtable

Help us help you!

Megan Wood

Ohio Historical Society

Standards Revision Process

Board of Education adopted revised standards in 2010

Over the summer, teams of teachers will be working on Model Curriculum

Model curriculum needs to be approved by the Board of Education in March 2011

New assessments to be tested (tentatively) during the 2012-2013 school year

Biggest Changes

Vocabulary:

Strands—Topics—Content Statements

Four Strands:

History, Geography, Government, Economics

High School Courses as Syllabi

4th Grade Example

Biggest Changes

Fourth Grade- Ohio in the United States Fifth Grade- Regions and People of the

Western Hemisphere Sixth Grade- Regions and People of the

Eastern Hemisphere

Model Curriculum

Content elaborations Expectations for learning Instructional Strategies Differentiated Classroom Ideas Instructional Resources Connections

Reactions?

When do you think your school will begin to use the new standards?

What has been your reaction or the reaction of your colleagues to the changes?

What are the opportunities/challenges for classroom teachers?

What do you need to make the transition?

4th Grade Online Textbook Project

eTech and OHS Due for release in Fall 2011 Free to all schools in the first year and then

available for a nominal subscription fee Material will update annually Include: readings, instructional materials,

video, audio, primary sources OHS will be hiring teachers to help write

instructional pieces

The Current Challenge

What is the best way to organize information for teachers based on the new standards? Chronological Thematic A combination

Proposed Units

Chronological:

1- Ohio’s Place and First Ohioans

2- Early America and the Ohio Country

3- A Growing Country: Northwest Ordinance and Ohio Statehood

4- A Nation Evolving: American Sectionalism and Development of Ohio

Proposed Units

Thematic1- First Ohioans2- History: Early America-Early Ohio3- Government: American and Ohio

Government4- Geography: Ohio in the United States:

Resources, Places, Environment5- Economics: Entrepreneurs, Innovations,

Financial Literacy

Feedback

Does the draft outline seem reasonable for classroom teachers?

Looking at the fourth grade content statements- do our groupings make sense?

Other comments?

Thanks!

Megan Wood

Ohio Historical Society

mwood@ohiohistory.org

614.297.2343

www.slideshare.net/meganwood