Knowledge Accumulation
The primary purpose of social studies instruction is ensuring that students attain________.
What is new knowledge-facts, events, places, dates, people, and the connections between those things.
Give an example of how students may need to apply their schema to understand a historical event.
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Make a claim that is supported by evidence
What is making evidence based claims?
Charlie is departing on the last day of school to visit this country.
What is Kenya
Tells us that we must first overcome our students attention barrier to so they can receive new information into their working memory.
What is information processing model
Students apply knowledge to evaluate new information
What is evaluating and analyzing information?
Students develop a critical perspective, questioning the validity of information and looking for potential biases
What is critical lens?
Who won our icebreaker 30 second commercial pitch?
Who is Ms. Mika!
After new information is presented to students, they should be asked to recall it at increasing intervals (i.e. each day, then once-a-week, then once-a-month), in order to facilitate the process of storage in long-term memory
What is spaced retrieval?
Students apply new knowledge to information they already have in order to better understand the meaning of the new knowledge and therefore remember it.
What is making meaning?
Students can draft the written or verbal argument to select the strongest evidence and show how it supports the claim
What is supporting evidenced based claims?
Most popular dream job of most of our PLC colleagues
What is travel around the world
Teachers should create an experience with in the classroom or school cultivated around a unit (events, people, places) to create connections between information.
What is creating an immersive experience?
Students are frequently using their newly acquired and previously acquired knowledge by__________ that knowledge to new scenarios and applying it to understand or add to their knowledge framework.
What is transferring?
Social studies instruction should provide an opportunity for students to practice decoding, reading fluency and expression, comprehension and monitoring strategies, and close reading strategies
What is reading practice?
Provide opportunities for students to make meaning with new knowledge and store it when it organized around an overarching concept
What is organization of knowledge around big ideas
Students apply previously learned information as they read a text, view a presentation, or look at a picture or artifact
What is using schema to apply knowledge?
Providing students with opportunities to create complex sentences and organizing paragraphs for a specific purpose
What is writing skills?
Pick anyone and recall their first job (hint: this was the icebreaker from our first in person PD day)
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