Success driven

Can collaborate

Detailed

Editor

Supportive

Goal-driven

Communicator

Analyze

Self-directed

Curious

Ability to Research

Learning can be fun

Sets goals

Questions

Confidence

Organized

Self-Advocates

How much direct instruction

How much higher order abstract thinking

How to chunk activities

Differences in gender development

Social media influence

How to give meaningful feedback

How much tech in the classroom

Providing individual feedback - time consuming

Time to create

Gamification of instruction

Collaboration time with teachers to co-develop lessons

Instructional time with students

Location - physical proximity for classrooms

Need to know "what is the job"

• Life skills

• Cultural literacy

• Personal development

POG

Civics

Aligned with adolescent neuro-science

• The purpose is for students to understand our past, connect to today and bceome citizens who are informed and active

• To ensure that students have access to a variety of experiences that prepare them to engae with the modern world

• The ability to read, analyze, think, collaborate and communicate

• Passion, desire and confidence to engage as citizens

Purpose

• Content (tied to standards)

• POG

Concepts

Guiding Questions

• Factual

• Conceptual

• Provocative

• Consistent for all teachers

• Instructional practices may vary?

Skills

• Reading

• Research

• Inquiry

• May add more here

Assessments

• Designated formative and summative

Standards

Sources

Use backward design in the revision process

Keep current unit progression

Option 2

7th Grade

• America before and after colonization

• Revolution and the colonies

• Forming a new nation

8th Grade

• Launch of the new republic

• Expanding nation

• America mid-1800s

• Union challenged

Option 3

8th Grade - To have students engaged in their learning by having them be a stakeholder in their learning.

• Identity - Who Am I?

  • What makes me who I am?

    • 1789-1824

• Character

  • What do you do when no one is looking?

    • Jackson

  • Change/Conflict/Growth

    • How does change and conflict allow us to grow as individuals?

      • Industrial Revolution

      • Immigration

      • Westward movement

  • Decisions

    • How do my decisions affect myself and others?

      • Slavery

  • Courage/Resiliency

    • Are courage and resiliency traits innate or acquired?

      • Civil War

      • Reconstruction

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