Social Science Department

Meetings

Date: / Monday, September 20, 2010
Time: / 2:00-3:00
Selected classrooms by content team
Attendance: / Mastromauro, Carol / Kilbride, Kevin
Bendle, Wendy / Max, Ben
Brown, Dana Marie / Pember, Ann
Green, Jamie / Tivnan, Rick
Healy, Marsha / Veritas, Kerry
Hurley, Greg
Legare, Coryne
Lightbody, Michael
District Goal: / Student Achievement:
Goal: All students are knowledgeable, collaborative, independent learners who:
·  achieve at a level required to access higher education and pursue a career
·  meet or exceed established benchmark standards on all required state and district assessments
·  “got grit” (set goals and relentlessly pursue them)
·  seek challenges
·  discover and develop their individual talents
·  strive for academic excellence
·  demonstrate personal and social responsibility
·  are prepared to be active participants in our economy and democracy
Instruction:
Goal: Students will be independent learners. They will interact thoughtfully with text, data, number and word problems, visuals, and phenomena, on their own and with one another, to build new knowledge, skills and understanding.
Agenda:
2:00 -- 3:00
2010-2011 / Thank You . .
§  for your understanding and flexibility with the renovations, technology issues, and books.
§  for supporting the assembly on Friday, students were well-prepared for the topic.
§  to Greg Hurley, Ann Pember, and Dana Marie Brown for their help with the historypage. They will email you whenever additions or revisions are made.
§  to Carol Mastromauro for organizing and accompanying the selected James Otis Scholars.
§  to all of the 9th grade teachers who attended the middle school PD. Your enthusiasm for CSL and your questions served to motivate and inform middle school teachers.
Members of content teams should meet in the designated room.
In content teams identify key questions and topics that reflect the ''big ideas" that every student should understand and can be included in district assessments.
1.  Narrow down the topics for Q1 that will be taught for this year due to PBLs and model 21st century classrooms.
2.  Identify key questions.
3.  Align the assessments.
4.  Identify common assessments.
5.  Reach consensus on the above.
6.  Revise and update skill section - use district strategies (content/response notes, Think/write/pair/share, visual discoveries, APPARTS, 3-Minute Pause, Get the Gist, Save the Last Word, etc)
7.  Include links to favorite websites and links to wikipages
8.  Divide remaining work for Quarter 1 amongst Content members.
9.  Use template, save in a word document, send to me for feedback before uploading.
10.  Revise pacing guide to reflect changes
11.  Begin work on Quarter 2…Q3…Q4
12.  Additional time will be provided
Content Teams:
U.S. I / U.S. II / Modern World
Ann Pember / Rick Tivnan / Carol Mastromauro
Dana Marie Brown / Mike Lightbody / Kevin Kilbride
Coryne Legare / Jamie Green / Greg Hurley
Kerry Veritas / Ben Max / Marsha Healy
Wendy Bendell
Department Focus:
"Reflect, reorganize and improve" on implementation of the district teaching and learning strategies to build students' comprehension and vocabulary skills.
·  concept of the Gradual Release of Responsibility
·  Think Aloud
·  Two-column notes (Content/Response Notes)
·  Think-Write-Pair-Share-Revise
·  Summarize
Integrate project learning into core social studies and history content to increase student engagement and deepen understanding.
·  U.S. I--CSL
·  U.S. II--History Day Theme
·  World--History Day Theme and pilot Model UN
·  AP World--pilot Model UN
In an inquiry based environment teachers will provide opportunities for students to develop key 21st century skills and to apply those real-life skills in the context of a project. http://historymalden.wikispaces.com/