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I believe my role as a member of the textbook adoption committee is to review different curriculums and study them to find the best fit for elementary schools across the district.

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There are several that I believe will lead to changing Social Studies teaching.  First and foremost that SS IS NOT meant to be teacher presented, student memorized, regurgitated on HW, quizzes and tests.  The fact that we agree that SS should be experiences, relatable, engaging and integrated is a major turning point in the teaching of SS.  Inside of this belief we see the roll of the teacher changing from “monkey see, monkey do” to more of a facilitator, mentor, guiding presence while student immerse in the content/concept to develop their own ideas about our world and curiosity about why/how our world interacts.

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I see my role as a member of the textbook adoption committee as a liaison who can bring the collective needs and opinion of teachers to the group when exploring new possible curriculum.

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I enjoyed getting to learn about the differing perspectives of grade levels. Taking on the perspectives of our students is very helpful in creating meaningful lessons that allow students to connect, reflect and apply the content they are exposed to.

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By selecting quality resources that will align with our district vision and provide learning opportunities for our students.

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I grew in my thinking about the “higher order” questions and the application of social studies skills. I, of course, will still teach the basic skills, but I will also reach higher to apply those basic skills in a “real” way.

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What the vision is that Edmond has for Social studies curriculum and how we have come to a common vision for social studies instruction.

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The role of the teacher is to assist learners to understand and apply the concept of culture as an integrated whole that governs the functions and interactions of language, arts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behavior patterns. If all teachers did this, then we would have a much more peaceful and understanding society.

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The role of the teacher is to assist learners to understand and apply the concept of culture as an integrated whole that governs the functions and interactions of language, arts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behavior patterns. If all teachers did this, then we would have a much more peaceful and understanding society.

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Although we come from many different areas, grades, and needs across the district, we have the same goal and ideas of how to reach that goal.  I was surprised at how the different grade levels have a common vision of a hands-on, meaningful curriculum that impacts a student and helps them to develop a connection to what is taught... not just a ‘sit, git, and forgit ‘ approach.

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One area in which I grew was noticing and acknowledging the differences in the teaching practices for social studies in different grades. Teaching a concept in high school is going to look very different than the same concept in elementary and will be important when choosing a curriculum that works for everyone.

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Students can learn SS through exploring and solving contextual and real world problems will help me the most when selecting the new textbook because students need real
world application and relevancy to their lives in order to be actively engaged and bought in to their educational process.

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We are the voices of our school and of our students. We need to remember the ways our students have changed over the years. We need to adopt textbooks that they can understand and help them grow.

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By honoring our common vision that includes our experiences, best practices, and research.

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I grew as an educator today by collaborating with others from all grade levels and realized that although our opinions will differ on many ways, we do agree that our role as a teacher is to help facilitate our students learning by helping them make connections to their life and how to take that knowledge and apply it outside of school.

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Mix of the first 2 that were discussed. Different levels and subjects require different amounts or prior learning and application. Have to remind experience, best practices and research on a constant basis as to what does this look like in _____grade subject.

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It will be important to find the right curriculum to help all grade levels accomplish their goals. It needs to be a tool that will need needs for testing as well as creating life long learners and good citizens.

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I grew in my thinking about vertical alignment beyond just the elementary grades. Having active conversations with teachers of drastically older students opened my mind to thinking about more of the long term affects of the foundations of social studies and how it is taught in the early years than is typically discussed in elementary.

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It stretched my thinking for a K-12 vision for an adopted curriculum.

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Learning through exploration and solving contextual and real world problems will be an important part of the selection of the adoption. Textbooks that are current and up-to-date with modern technologies and ideas for real world issues would be helpful to teachers. Collaboration with other schools has revealed the need for ways to implement cross curricular examples to maximize instruction.

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Understanding more about the role of the student I think will help greatly

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I’m so glad we had both Elementary and Secondary present. It’s so good to hear the other’s perspective.

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Without good primary sources we're in trouble.

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The role of the teacher as a facilitator of learning and providing meaningful, engaging opportunities for students to interact with the content will help shift the role of the student to a curious and engaged learner.  These shifts will lead the change in the way Social Studies is taught in our classrooms.  Providing primary and secondary sources for students to interact with, and helping students find real world applications will also change the look of our learning environments.

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I think this belief will be the most beneficial when selecting a new textbook beacuse it speaks on how students are to be actively involved while learning! I think students will appreciate and relate more to a curriculum that is engaging and one that uses varied strategies!

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The role of the teacher is to assist learners to understand and apply the concept of culture as an integrated whole that governs the functions and interactions of language, literature, arts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behavior patterns. I like the fact it states to assist learners in a variety of ways to understand and apply the knowledge.

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I will look for a curriculum that offers experiential learning for our students.

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To keep in my the whole of Edmond Public schools and not focus on just one grade level.

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To keep in my the whole of Edmond Public schools and not focus on just one grade level.

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In selecting new textbooks, I want to focus on the belief that an effective teacher provides challenges, encourages problem solving, and productive struggles. Additionally, I think the belief that students memorize facts and information are an important aspect of a social studies curriculum especially in terms of standardized testing.

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I believe that focusing on problem solving, reasoning, and discourse as the method to develop understanding of concepts and procedures will lead the change in Social Studies. Problem solving, reasoning, and collaborating with others are skills that transcend Social Studies but are still applicable. Additionally, focusing on the why instead of the what will help students even as they move past our class and into reading through opinions, and news stories, and stances. I also believe that problem solving helps to teach students how to accept failure and how to grow from it. 

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I believe that focusing on problem solving, reasoning, and discourse as the method to develop understanding of concepts and procedures will lead the change in Social Studies. Problem solving, reasoning, and collaborating with others are skills that transcend Social Studies but are still applicable. Additionally, focusing on the why instead of the what will help students even as they move past our class and into reading through opinions, and news stories, and stances. I also believe that problem solving helps to teach students how to accept failure and how to grow from it. 

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The role of the social studies teacher is to assist learners to understand and apply the concept of culture as an integrated whole that governs the functions and interactions of language, literature, arts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behavior patterns.
I like the big picture and integrated nature of this philosophy.

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Social Studies learning should engage the students in active and critical thinking.

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Understanding role of the teacher will have an impact.

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To keep in mind that the goal is help align the district vertically from a K-12 Level.

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An effective teacher provides students with appropriate challenge, encourages perseverance in solving problems, & supports productive struggle in learning social studies

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Being open to social studies concepts.  Also doing best practices which we didn't really discuss even though it is mentioned in goal.

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Being open to social studies concepts.  Also doing best practices which we didn't really discuss even though it is mentioned in goal.

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As a secondary teacher, I don't get that enough.

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I enjoyed getting to see different teachers at different grade levels. Seeing their take over each question.