WELCOME! Week 1

Teach Baton Rouge Content Area: Social Studies
Master Teacher: Patricia Koksal

Contact: pkoksal@ebrschools.org
Blog Title: If I Had Only Known…
Web address:
http://tbrcontentss.blogspot.com/

Session Objectives:
o Looking at the Comprehensive curriculum for content area
o Differentiating instruction o Instructional strategies/best practices for content area
o Assessment, how to use assessment to guide instruction, pre-and post- testing, Edusoft
o Classroom management with particular emphasis on how it relates to a particular content area or grade level

Schedule of Activities:
Week 1- Introduction
Week 2- Lesson Plans/Curriculum (Am. History), Differentiation, Application
Week 3- Lesson Plans/Curriculum (Civics), Project Based Learning, instructional strategies/best practices
Week 4- Lesson Plans/Curriculum (World Geography), Assessment
Week 5-Curriculum Reflection, Portfolio Presentations, GradeBooks, EduSoft, TAC
System

Session 1 Description:

9:00-9:20 Introductions, preliminary needs assessment activity
9:20-9:30 Schedule of Sessions Overview, Writing Across the Curriculum
9:30-10:15 Looking at the Curriculum as a Whole. Participants will be introduced to the blended nature of the Social Studies discipline as an introduction to exploring each separate entity in following weeks' sessions.
10:15-10:30 Questions/Class Discussion
10:30-10:45 Introduction of Compacted Curriculum, Differentiation in planning and lesson delivery, and Blooms Taxonomy Wheel Handout
10:45-11:15 Planning and Technology, Implementing online resources
11:15-11:30 Assignments, BLOG participation requirements, Specific Requests by participants, Closing

Sessions 2-5 According to Schedule as listed above with participant specific requests addressed