Birmingham Public Schools A K-12 Narrative of Social Studies Education in 2015
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Sixth Grade Jacob is a 6th grade boy who comes to class with reading difficulties. He lacks motivation to read and write and for anything related to traditional school. He is ADD. His organizational skills are lacking. Although he has resources at his disposal, he doesn’t want to use them for fear of looking different. He does enjoy building and constructing. He is currently working with his dad to restore a 1970’s corvette. Jacob, age 11
Conditions Resources are aligned to standards. Jacob comes to class 5 days a week for 55 minutes a day for social studies class. Materials and resources: TCI Ancient World online text book and materials, Discovery magazines videos and movies related to the curriculum, ipads, laptops, Google Classroom Resources are aligned to standards. Online TCI can be challenging for the students. The reading level is high.
Major Units of Study Beginnings of Human Society Early Civilizations and Early Pastoral Socities Ancient Civilizations/Empires and Religions The Americas
Foundational Skills & Concepts Finding main idea and details Summarizing content Come writing a 3 body paragraph Use maps and other geographic tools Basic geography
Assessment Strategies In this box, share any connections that your social studies curriculum has with… Skilled learners apply knowledge Social Studies learning should be meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active. Build global competence All four dimensions of C3 have strong implications in the classroom. We apply disciplinary concepts and tools in civics, economics, geography, and history. Takes responsibility for learning. We use 3 common assessments are written by teachers and based on the assessments provided by TCI. All 3 assessments are on Atlas Rubicon. If Jacob were to take the test as written, he would fail and has. However, when modified in length, in format, in time and setting, he meets success.