High+School+Agenda+2011-2012

= High School Agenda 2011 - 2012 = = = UbD || # Pacing guides for core content areas revised and uploaded. http://maldenneasc.wikispaces.com/ || Next week content teams will meet in designated rooms to begin NEASC work on curriculum and instructions. Groups were formed and rooms were selected. NEASC process was reviewed || || Lesson #1 identified for each core course Model Lesson for Ubd developed thru stage 1 Pacing Guides update and on historypage || Submitted by Mrs. Gordon - Grade 6 http://mrsdesantis-socialstudies.wikispaces.com/Pumpkin+Projects || 7:30 9:15 || **Topic:** Organization of NEAS Page for curriculum and instruction || Reviewed Grading Policy - the following suggestions was made: 1. have a separate grading policy for Honor and CP classes 2. combine Class Notes and Class discussions 3. raise at CLT and bring back to department for consensus 4. Place grading policy on High School History Homepage Check to be sure all Course pages have the same links Format NEASC page for submitted lessons and student work. || ||  || || 2:00-3:00 || **Topic:** Goals and inquiry based learning Add Primary Source to the agenda Bring Save the Last Word Protocol || Members of the department agreed to meet in content teams one day per week according to the following schedule: Grade 9: During Content Time and as needed Grade 10: U.S. History II - Wednesday's Grade 11: World History - Tuesday In content teams. . . * **Check in on the pacing guide** - where are we? Where will we be by mid-terms? * **Power Standards must meet three criteria** || || 2:00- 3:00 || ||   || Early Release ||  || 2:00 - 3:00 ||  || **Individual Data Analysis due onTuesday, February 29** **Schedule for GC Mentors is option A** Teachers reported on thier NHD status UbD Curriculum mapping:
 * ==Month== || ==**Location**== || ==**Time**== || ==**Agenda**== || ==Outcomes== ||
 * August
 * PD Day #1** || Malden High School - Room J 272 || 8:00 -11:00 || **Topic**: Welcome back
 * 1) UbD - stage one started in each core course
 * 2) NHD will begin Q1 and timeline was reviewed
 * 3) Model UN will begine in October with a simulation on Congress of Vienna
 * 4) Generation Citizen curriculum was reviewed and is set to begin Q3 ||
 * September 12, 2011
 * Early Release** || MHS - Room J 272 || 2:00 - 3:00 || **Topic:** Curriculum & Instruction for NESC
 * September 19, 2011
 * Early Release** || MHS - Desginated rooms || 2:00 - 3:00 || **Topic**: Identify lesson #1 to be submitted for October.
 * October 17, 2011
 * Late Entry** || J 272
 * Directions:**
 * November 1, 2011 || Malden High School - Greg's Room, J364 || 9:00-11:45 || **Topic:** Collecting student work and submitting lessons for NEASC
 * November 7, 2011 || Malden High School - Carol's Room
 * **Discuss Project based learning** - How does this work align to the Common Core?
 * **Curriculum Design**
 * Consider how our reading today on "Inquiry in History," impacts our curriculum units
 * 1) __Endurance__: Standards whose importance lasts longer - beyond the test
 * 2) __Leverage__: The success in one standard is very likely to be associated with success in other standards
 * 3) __Essential:__ Is it essential for the next level of instruction?
 * Full Outcomes:**
 * December, 2011 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * January 30, 2012 - Early Release || Malden High School - Room J 272
 * February 13, 2012
 * Grade 9 Content Team **
 * Please confirm schedule with college mentors on a weekly basis
 * Stick with the mentor assigned to your group
 * Begin with lesson 3
 * Introduce students to rubrics in the back of the interactive student notebook
 * Contact GC to get 6 more GC Curriculum Guides Printed
 * GC Civics Day will be held at the State House on Friday, May 11 from 11:00-2:00
 * Grade 10 - U.S. II Content Team **
 * __Discussion topics:__ What is keeping up from doing NHD in the first half of the year? Let's look to adjust for next year. Content crunch, what else? Can use NHD for skill development toward start of year? Goal for next year is to start much earlier.
 * "Heavy Lifting" of the work done in class time, draft revisions, edits, some research, finalizing the projects, good examples of work to be done independently
 * Lucia should be utilized. Also resources like easybib for works cited and sweetsearch.com for finding vetted sites.
 * Key step: post our plans, documents, directions, rubrics to our own wikis and then link those pages to USII NHD page...in the table set up here: https://historymalden.wikispaces.com/National+History+Day - Key thing is for everyone to share the outline of how they implemented NHD step-by-step and any important documents we used with students. Goal for next year will be to combine/compromise our different ways of doing things and do much of this in common.
 * __Shared resources__ - anything people want to add can be send to this group via email AND put into the learning plan (Phase 3) section of the Unit III UbD outline here: https://historymalden.wikispaces.com/America+in+the+%2720s+and+%2730s :
 * Rick - video on living in the 1920s - good intro - jazz music background, overview of key developments - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n8FO68LU
 * Mike - Scopes Trial handout available for anyone interested - gets kids to take notes and be the judge - will send as an attachment
 * Kevin - has a History channel documentary DVD on the Scopes Trial, very informative and useful, as well as the DBQ assignment that many of us are already using or planning to use
 * Ben - video - intro to Ken Burns' jazz - can be a great intro to jazz and the "roaring twenties", we showed it and asked how jazz might have symbolized/exemplified a new era for American society - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITbuFIG4Xvc
 * Here's the great site mentioned that is also linked in the dept wiki under content resources: http://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com/home
 * Modern World History: Discussion on Model UN work : **
 * Jamie and Greg shared their evaluation of the mini-sim on terrorism provided by UNAGB
 * It was suggested that the silly-sim be completed first so that students feel more comfortable with the UN procedures and protocols before the mini sim.
 * Request was made to ask Rebecca and Jen for more detail on each country's position on terrorism in the mini sim because students at this point know very little about most countries utilized in the mini sim. Geographical information is essential
 * More student prep time by teachers must be provided before the mini sim is conducted.
 * Greg suggested that the mini be conducted over several days rather than one. In one of his classes, students did not get beyond the speaker's list in terms of protocol.
 * A request was made to Rebbecca and Jen at UNAGB to provide more assistance in preparing topics such as maternal health and with the writing of position papers and resolutions before the March Simulation at Northeastern University. ||  ||