1. A Tool Box of RtI Strategies for Social Studies Teachers
Presented by Marianne Kenney, Secondary Social Studies Instructional Specialist

2. By the end of our time together, you will:
Acquire information and practice active social studies strategies
Gather some tools for differentiating in an RtI environment
Gain some ideas for getting kids to think critically and participate

3. Metaphorically Speaking
Choose one tool at your table that most closely expresses your feelings…
“How does this tool represent a concept I could use for good instruction in my classroom?”
Introduce yourself to the people at your table and share your metaphor

4. Common Ground
Prioritize where you think your greatest challenges will be in teaching this year based on the list provided on the half sheet of paper
Now….
Red dot = greatest challenge
Blue dot = 2nd greatest challenge

5. Four Square Allows students to:
See multiple opinions and connections between answers
Retell or share information on the subject to others
Synthesize information in a different format

6. Relevant Connections Allows students to:
To significant connections between people, places, and events
Practice critical thinking skills to make connections
Practice writing

7. Summarizing/Main idea Strategy
Allows students to:
Learn summarization techniques
Easily find the main point of any passage

8. Concept Attainment What is it? Why?
An inductive process that helps bring meaning to concepts by looking for common understanding
Why?
To engage student thinking and assist own knowledge

9. Graphic Organizers Using graphic organizers
They convert complex and messy information collections into meaningful displays
They compress
They focus
They make interpretation, understanding, and insight easier

10. Choice Boards Allows students:
The opportunity to decide what projects he/she will complete during the unit
The chance to work on independent research skills
The ability to use his/her preferred learning style

11. Showdown Allows the student: Time for individual processing
Collaboration with others for information
Gets immediate reinforcement or correction of knowledge
Let’s give it a try…..ready?

12. Showdown Explain what the following places have in common.
Kashmir Palestine
Tibet Former Yugoslavia

13. And the Answer Is…
In all these places, long-standing conflicts occurred over land with strong cultural, ethnic and/or religious meaning.

14. Showdown Explain what the following events have in common.
The requirement that South African blacks carry passes.
The encomienda system in colonial Latin America.
Ukrainian collectives under Josef Stalin.
Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China.

15. And the answer is…
All are ways that one group ( a minority) dominated and/or subjugated another group (the masses) in order to keep control and power.

16. Showdown Explain what the following people have in common.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Adolf Hitler
Mao Tse-Tung
Kim Jong Il
Saddam Hussein

17. And the Answer Is….
All of these are leaders who have used propaganda and the media to create cult of personalities, to gain or maintain power.

18. Marianne Kenney, Secondary Social Studies Instructional Specialist
What is it that you do?
I’m here to support you and help your students succeed!!
Please call on me…
Marianne Kenney, Secondary Social Studies Instructional Specialist
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