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3rd Grade Social Studies/ CBA Training

3rd Grade Social Studies/ CBA Training. Nancy Lenihan Kellie Fremont Tracy Davis. Introductions/ Overview Cultural Universals Activity Break Article Discussion GLE Overview Lunch. CBA Overview Break Curriculum Map for the Year Bringing this Back to your Building Wrap Up.

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3rd Grade Social Studies/ CBA Training

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  1. 3rd Grade Social Studies/ CBA Training Nancy Lenihan Kellie Fremont Tracy Davis

  2. Introductions/ Overview Cultural Universals Activity Break Article Discussion GLE Overview Lunch CBA Overview Break Curriculum Map for the Year Bringing this Back to your Building Wrap Up Session Overview

  3. Introductory Task On the template, describe your life and culture Put your details in this section Save for later

  4. Cultural Universals are useful for understanding a given society or making comparisons across societies. • The human experiences have existed in all cultures, past and present though the activities may not have the same form or meaning in each society.

  5. Food Clothing Shelter Family structures Government Communication Transportation Science and Technology Money or other forms of economic exchange Occupation Religion Recreation/Entertainment Cultural Universals

  6. Activity - Westlandia While listening to the story, use the template to analyze how the boy in the story incorporates the cultural universals into his world. Use this section

  7. Food Clothing Shelter Family structures Government Communication Transportation Science and Technology Money or other forms of economic exchange Occupation Religion Recreation/Entertainment Cultural Universals

  8. What students should know: • How our social system works (with respect to each cultural universal) • How and why it got to be that way over time • How and why related practices vary across locations and cultures • What all of this might mean for personal, social, and civic decision making

  9. Issues to be aware of: • Zone of Proximal Development • The information students won’t naturally acquire • Teachers need to use a standard set of vocabulary • Presentism and Chauvinism • Ideas that the people of the past are ignorant • Ideas that we are “better than” other cultures and civilizations • Students need to appreciate that all people are “players” in history and that hindsight is NOT the only lens for viewing the past.

  10. Break

  11. Article Discussion Social Studies and the Young Learner - Students at the Center

  12. Overview of GLEs • EALR 1 Civics • EALR 2 Economics • EALR 3 Geography • EALR 4 History • EALR 5 Social Studies Skills

  13. Looking at the New GLEs Compare the GLEs with what you are doing

  14. Exit Note to Lunch 1 idea about the GLEs 2 ideas about concept development 3 ideas about cultural universals

  15. How do we fit it all in? • Cultural Universals • Five Themes of Geography • GLEs • CBAs

  16. Why CBAs? • 16

  17. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. National Council for the Social Studies • 17

  18. Goals of the CBAs = Authentic Intellectual Work Construction of Knowledge Disciplined Inquiry Value Beyond School • 18

  19. CBA - Humans and the Environment • What is it? • What does the rubric look like? • How is it given? • How is it scored? • How is it reported? • Where are the resources?

  20. How do we get there?

  21. Realistic Expectations • 2008-2009 School Year - Focus on the CBA and do what you can to work through the process • 2009-2010 School Year - • Teach social studies throughout the school year • Next year, the CBA scores will be on the report card and reported to parents Social Studies Curriculum Guide

  22. Taking this back to your school… • How and when will you share this information with your colleagues? • What other support would you need to accomplish this?

  23. On your way out… • Fill out your clock hour evaluations • Have a great weekend!

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