New Mexico School Start Up Conference SREB/HSTW

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New Mexico School Start Up ConferenceSREB/HSTW  
Dr. Michael HickmanMickeymickeyhickman_at_yahoo
.com
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Why Were Here ?
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Why Were Here ?To do business slightly
different(than in the past!)
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Why Were Here ?To do business slightly
differently(than in the past!)To learn about
what is new!
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Why Were Here ?To do business slightly
differently(than in the past!)To learn about
what is new!To learn something new!
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Why Were Here ?To do business slightly
differently(than in the past!)To learn about
what is new!To learn something new! To
understand new foci!
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Why Were Here ?To do business slightly
differently(than in the past!)To learn about
what is new!To learn something new!
(Hopefully)To understand new foci!Enable you to
spread the message!through working with other
Social Studies teachers!
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
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Conference Agenda

• Part I
• Are We Aligned?
• Looking At the New Mexico State Social Studies
  Standards
• Preview of Common Core State Standards

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Conference Agenda

• Part II
• Building Writing Across the Curriculum
• Gates Writing Prompts

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Conference Agenda

• Part III
• Building More Rigor in Our Assessments

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Conference Agenda

• Part IV
• Building Student Engagement
• Practical, Engaging Classroom Strategies

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Lets Get Started!
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Are We Aligned?

• New Mexico State Social Studies Standards

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Are We Aligned?

• Unpacking Standards

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Are We Aligned?

• Choose and think about one unit from a SS
  Course that you teach

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Are We Aligned?

• Essential Questions
• Essential Questions are questions every student
  must be able to answer about the Course/Unit

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Are We Aligned?

• Write 6 to 8 Essential Questions about the unit.
• We will share your questions

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Essential KnowledgeThe FRAME ROUTINE
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Essential KnowledgeThe CLARIFYING ROUTINE
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SUCHMANINQUIRYRichard Suchman
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Common Core State StandardsCCSS
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Common Core Standards

• SOCIAL STUDIES
• The Standards are designed to help students
  prepare for real life experiences that occur in
  college and in their careers.
• Students must acquire and understand knowledge
  they must also know how to apply, work with, and
  re-shape that knowledge and create new knowledge.

EMPHASES Reading (Comprehension) Writing Speaking
and Listening Language Media and Technology
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Common Core Standards

• SOCIAL STUDIES
• The Standards are designed to help students
  prepare for real life experiences that occur in
  college and in their careers.
• Students must acquire and understand knowledge
  they must also know how to apply, work with, and
  re-shape that knowledge and create new knowledge.

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Common Core Standards

• Overview Presentation

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SPEAKING and LISTENING

• THE SOCRATIC SEMINAR

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EFFECTIVE ENGAGING INSTRUCTION

• Sometimes the problem is not a teaching issue
  but a thinking issue.
• In order to get people to think
  create disequilibrium

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EFFECTIVE ENGAGING INSTRUCTION

• Research says
• Make students participate in your class!
  Students who participate more achieve more and
  are more successful

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WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
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WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

• RAFT

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WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

• GATES PROMPTS
• The Write Way

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PART IVAssessing with Rigor and at a Higher Level
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Research saysIf content is truly new knowledge
then it takes

• High Achieving students
• Average Achieving students
• Low Achieving students

• 6 to 8 interactions with that knowledge for
  acquisition
• 8 to 14 interactions with that knowledge for
  acquisition
• 14 to 20 interactions with that knowledge for
  acquisition

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Blooms Taxonomy

• COGNITIVE LEVELS
• Synthesizing
• Evaluating
• Analyzing
• Applying
• Understanding
• Memorizing

Cognition at a higher level means that student
can operate cognitively at all the levels below
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Higher Ordered Cognitive Processes

• Problem Solving Critical Thinking
• Creative Thinking Decision-Making
• Metaphorical Thinking Inquiry Thinking

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Cognitive Processes for Extending Knowledge

• Comparing Classifying
• Abstracting Inductive Reasoning
• Deductive Reasoning Summarizing
• Analyzing/Defending Perspectives

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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose
symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the
Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree
came as a great beacon light of hope to millions
of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames
of withering injustice.
Assessing at a Higher Level
___ This passage is found in the content of which
of the following documents?
A- Gettysburg Address B- I Have A Dream C-
Preamble to Constitution D- Give Me Liberty
(or Give Me Death)
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Halle Berry
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SUCHMANINQUIRYRichard Suchman
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A STUDENT IS MOST LIKE A A
COMPUTER B AUTOMOBILE C FARM D SALAD
BOWLSynectics II Slide
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NAME THAT CATEGORY (Inductive Thinking)
Batman Actors

Tom Cruise Movies
James Bond Movies
Winged Insects
Foreign Automobiles
Pick Up Trucks
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NAME THAT CATEGORY Round 1

Movie Studios
Reptiles
Villains
Middle East Countries
Leading Ladies
Rivers
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NAME THAT CATEGORY Round 2

Sports played without a ball
Magical Characters
Kid Show Hosts
Soaps
Daytime Soaps
Artists (Painters)
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CARTOON CHARACTERS

BORIS NATASHA
Wilma Betty
STEWIE
ELMER FUDD

• SHREK

SMURFS
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TERMS HEARD IN A COURT ROOM
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• Sentence
• Verdict Baliff
• Your Honor Oath Testimony

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WOMEN

• Cartoon
• Wives
• Female Leading
• Comedians Ladies
• Princesses Queens Ladies
• of the Night

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HOUSES OF WORSHIP

• Cathedral
• Kingdom Hall Chapel
• Mosque Synagogue Temple

500
200
100
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A TEACHER IS MOST LIKE A
ELECTRICITY B A CRAFTSMAN C A
RAPPER D THE
STREETSSynectics II Slide
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Suchman Inquiry

• HALLE
• BERRY

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TERMS HEARD ON A TV POLICE DRAMA

• Witness
• Protection
• Hitman Forensics
• Bookie Bust Stake Out

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A SCHOOL IS MOST LIKE A A
FACTORY B CLINICC FARM D
BANKSynectics II Slide
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Suchman Inquiry

• JOHN WAYNE

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Suchman Inquiry

• AMAZON
• RIVER

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Suchman Inquiry

• LIBERTY BELL

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Suchman Inquiry

• LEANING
• TOWER
• of
• PISA

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Name that category ____________________

• Witness Protection
• DNA
• A professional hit
• Miran-dize
• Stake out
• Collar

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Name that Category _____________________________
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Synagogue
Temple
Cathedral
Chapel
Mosque
Kingdom Hall
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HOUSES OF WORSHIP

• Cathedral
• Kingdom Hall
• Chapel
• Mosque
• Synagogue
• Temple