Quick Recap:
- Break down of History/ Common Core reading Standards
- We read over the 10 standards
- Discussed strategies and examples of how teachers are helping students master each standard
- Looked for areas that we needed to focus on
- Sample SBAC Performance Task
- We looked at a practice exam
- Talked about the correlation of this ELA test to History
- Looked at the types of skills students were being assessed as a means to guide our curriculum building
- Sample Lessons
- Each grade level looked at sample units from New York Department of Education to get ideas
- Socratic Seminar
- As a group we discussed the importance of academic conversations to help students formulate, and work through, claims and supporting evidence
- Looked at the fundamental differences between dialogue and debate
- Watched a video of a Socratic Seminar
- With the middle school group we had time to engage in a Socratic Seminar
- We also looked at rubrics for accountability during the seminar and language tools to help students engage in dialogue
- Breakout time
- Each grade level worked together to find documents in an effort to create a mini unit that would emphasize reading standard six
- The goal was to end with a writing piece as a summative assessment