In Section Three: Connecting to the Framework / Standards, the adoption committee members will have the opportunity to look at the Criteria of the SSCE and the HSS Framework and Standards. Tracing Standards will help the district understand the ways that Civic Education and Engagement can be woven into the classrooms in a way that will help students become an active part of their communities, while teaching them the skills and knowledge that will help them become successful and productive members of society.
Tracing Standards is an opportunity to identify some priority standards deemed critical to student achievement in the district. Priority standards are those that students struggle to learn, teachers find difficult to teach, or those that thread through several grade levels. Priority standards can be determined based on the findings in the district lens. Many districts may have also already established “power” or “essential” standards that could be used in this section.
Please take a moment and think about the HSS Framework and the ‘98 Content standards. Then answer these questions to the best of your ability either on your own or with your discussion group.
Please take a moment and think about the HSS Framework and the ‘98 Content standards. Then answer these questions to the best of your ability either on your own or with your discussion group.
Please read the appropriate chapter in the new framework that corresponds to your grade span Once done please take a moment to fill out the discussion guide and talk to your table groups about your impressions of the information.
Read the appropriate chapter in the new framework that corresponds to your grade level Once done please take a moment to fill out the discussion guide and talk to your table groups about your impressions of the information. Then move onto the next part of the activity.
Directions: Use the documents provided to begin to map out how the SSCE will connect to the HSS that is being taught in the classrooms. Remember the work that you have done up to this point and find those areas that might provide challenges and begin to brainstorm ways to overcome these to make sure that this program has a successful implementation.
Use these document to work in your grade level groups to review and brainstorm possible pathways for each of the grade spans, focusing on Criteria 3-5. Think about how this would impact each of the grades in the span.
All Grade Level Groups should have a copy of all the work that is completed by the other groups.
Once you have went through this section and completed the activities and reviewed the CA History / Social Studies Framework and Connected it to the Criteria for the SSCE and planned for the activities and work that the students will be responsible for for each of the grade levels, continue on to the next section.