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TEKS Tool: World History and World Geography

Overview and Rationale

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Use data to make decisions about the effectiveness of social studies curriculum, instruction, and assessment, and their alignment.

Identify common or similar TEKS in Grade 8, World Geography Studies, and World History Studies.



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Compare the common/similar TEKS for Grade 8, World Geography Studies, and World History Studies to the TAAS II objectives.

Identify characteristics of effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment, as well as characteristics of the effective alignment of these three elements of an instructional system.



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Outline strategies to help students

master TEKS that might be included in the TAAS II social studies examinations.

Develop an example of an instructional sequence that focuses on both the common TEKS for World History and World Geography and the TAAS II objectives.



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How do you make decisions about the effectiveness of curriculum, instruction, and assessment in your classroom?

Making Data-Driven Decisions


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What role does experience play in your decisions?

What role does research play in your decisions?

What role does data play in your decisions?



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You worked through the Data Driven Decision-Making TEKS Tool?

What data sources would you use now?



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We will examine U. S. History End- of-Course Exam, TAAS, and TAAS II Objectives and determine their relationships to the Social Studies TEKS.

Relating TEKS and TAAS


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Read through the TEKS for World Geography Studies and World History Studies.

Make a list of those TEKS that are common or similar for the World Geography Studies and the World History Studies courses.



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Now read through the TEKS for Grade 8 U.S. History. Are there any TEKS in this course that are also similar to those shared by World Geography Studies and World History Studies?



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Compare your results with those of your colleagues.

What common/similar TEKS did you find? What does this mean for curriculum?



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Examine the TAAS II objectives. Around what themes or concepts do

the TEKS intersect with the TAAS II objectives?



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What themes, topics, and concepts must be included in the curriculum to prepare students for the TAAS II exam?

What skills must be included in the curriculum to prepare students for the TAAS II exam?



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What knowledge is a necessary prerequisite for students to learn the curriculum?

What skills are a necessary prerequisite for students to learn the curriculum?



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When do students learn the prerequisite knowledge and skills?

Select a topic at the intersection of the TEKS and the TAAS II objectives.

Search for prerequisite knowledge and skills across the grades.



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In which grade levels were prerequisite knowledge and skills found?

What does this suggest about the importance of the social studies curriculum in the elementary and middle grades?



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Curriculum is like a skyscraper.

It takes a solid foundation to reach the highest levels.

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What are indicators of effective

curriculum? What are indicators of effective

instruction? What are indicators of effective

assessment?

Designing and Aligning Learning and Assessment


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Why is it necessary to look at curriculum, instruction, and assessment together?



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What criteria would you use to evaluate a C-I-A system?

Make a list.



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Curriculum is TEKS based. Instructional strategies are appropriate

to the type of knowledge or skills being taught.

Assessment is frequent and is performance based.

Curriculum, instruction, and assessment are tightly coupled.



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Using your criteria, evaluate the two examples of the teachers’ performances in “What’s Wrong with this Picture?”

Which was the better of the two? Why?



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Examine the lesson “A Tiny Flea is a World Affair.”

Use your criteria for effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment to determine what you like about the lesson and what you would change.



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Using the Texas Social Studies Framework K-12

Using the Texas Social Studies Toolkit (CD ROM)

Social Studies Center Website



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SSC TEKS Tools PDAS Five Models of Staff

Development



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Stage 1: Identify desired results of instruction.

Stage 2: Determine evidence to judge whether results were achieved and how well they were achieved.

Stage 3: Plan learning experiences and instruction.

Stage 4: Evaluate the system and use the results to plan improvements.



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What do you need to do in your room, your school, your district?

How will you accomplish your work? What resources do you need? What is your schedule?



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