The Uthman Dan Fodio Institute has just begun a Common Core State Standards Institute to teach teachers how to introduce CCSS to teach their students Social Science/History.
In
Common Core State Standards teaching Social Studies/History student
participate in a number of learning activities. Students individually or in
collaborative groups, manipulate knowledge, emphasizing the idea that
they are “learning
to learn”
.
In
CCSS History students make inference about informational text to solve
problems.
In
CCSS History students use Annotations to master the text
In
general in CCSS
History students utilize, access & evaluate informational text
In
CCSS History students synthesize info and use key details to write a
compelling
narrative like historians.
CCSS
Institute
Program
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Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are NOW.
Today schools are
focused on preparing students for the World of
Work and College. The
varied States have chosen CCSS to drive and deliver this
educational reform.
CCSS
demands that Elementary and High School students become actively
involved in
their own learning.
The CCSS demand that students become
actively engaged in their own
learning while they generate their own learning
products. As a result,
students are expected to seriously think about what they
are learning while
they generate
knowledge answering rigorous questions. During this process
it is important for
teachers to remember that
good teaching requires explicit
teaching of academic content across the
curriculum so students will have the
background
knowledge to analyze, compare and contrast historical
documents, informational
text and artifacts.
In this program teachers learn how to
encourage their
students to use
CCSS to identify primary and secondary sources;
and be able to make
inferences based on the relationship between these diverse
sources of
information to understand
historical events and ideas.
Teachers learn how to guide their students
to use details
from the text
they read and analyze to support their conclusions.
Teachers will learn how
to use use CCSS to create
social science lessons and thematic units. These
social
sciences lessons will demand that students individually or co-
construct their
own knowledge as they work to
explore the significant
changes that have occurred in the world, the nation and
their
neighborhood or community
over time.
Making inferences and drawing conclusions will
be an integral part of any
unit of study. Using CCSS students will
become
involved in uncovering
information that will be used to develop and produce
creative projects that
