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Welcome To Back to School Night!
February 2010
Miss Potter's ClassUnited State's History
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The BasicsWhat will MY student be learning in this class?
As we explore multiple time periods in United State's History, your child will learn about great wars, famous figures, momentous happenings, politics, and current events. I hope to help each and every one of my students learn about the importance of studying history. I hope to challenge them to think beyond their "comfort" level, to make connections between the past and present. I hope they will use everything they learn in my class to help them establish their OWN personal ideologies and positions on history and political world events. To me, its not about how much they learn in a 45 minute class period, but rather, their ability to critically think about a subject to gain a unique understanding that no text book could ever offer them alone.
In Addition to Learning History...Your students will learn through multiple technological sources.
History (the main content) and technology will be presented to
your students as a mutli-purposeful learning experience. One major 21st century technological skill that will be
covered in this class:
Learning
and Innovation Skills!
How students will use technology to learn to their full potential:
What are Learning and Innovation Skills?Create ideas and analyze.Work with others.• communicate new ideas • understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas• make mistakes• learn from them
Implement your innovations.• make useful contributions to the field of your innovation
Critically Think and Problem Solve.• reason
Use "Systems Thinking".• "Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes
in complex systems"
Continued...Judge and Decide.• analyze and evaluate all claims/points of view• make connections between information and arguments• Interpret , make conclusions, reflect.
Solve.Communicate and Collaborate. • explain ideas orally and in written form. • listen, inform, instruct, persuade. • use multiple forms of media• be flexible • share responsibility in groups
Taken from Link: Learning and Innovation
Example Activity: Part 1:Students will be given a history based research topic where they need to resolve a problem. The problem that needs to be solved will be offered in an open-ended question so that students can produce multiple answers and learn through multiple sources. Students will be given the freedom to make their paper topic general or very specific. The format of the paper (such as compare/contrast, informational, etc.) would be based on what type of information each student finds during their research. One example of a research topic would be, “Pretend you are a member of the jury for the Brown versus Board Supreme Court Case. Explain the case. What are you hearing? On what information will you base your decision? What will you decide? What would you recommend is the next best course of action. ”
Example Activity: Part 2:
Students will be expected to back their opinions and facts with research. They will be required to explore multiple websites and be asked to use a variety of websites and web-applications such as “add-ons” and “news sources” and “social networking sites” to determine their trustworthiness and dependability. After collecting their information, drawing conclusions, and formulating a paper, they will discuss their ideas in a class discussion/debate. This will give them an opportunity to bounce ideas off each other and learn from one other.
Teaching others= 90% Learning!
I hope I offered each of you "a good idea" of what we will be
learning in United States History!
Any question/commentsNever hesitate to contact me
Miss [email protected]