World+History+EOC+Day+2

**DAY TWO- REGION IV ISC**
Tom Wurst Ashley Petry
 * TRAINERS:**

__**RECONSTRUCTING THE TEKS**__
 * PERIODIZATION
 * DEVELOPMENT OF CORE CIVILIZATIONS 8000 BCE-500 BCE
 * CLASSICAL ERA
 * POST-CLASSICAL ERA
 * CONNECTING HEMISPHERES
 * AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
 * 20TH CENTURY TO PRESENT
 * CUT OUT TEKS ON SMALL SQUARES AND COLOR CODE EACH STRAND. WHEN YOU DEVELOP A LESSON, CROSS CHECK THAT A TEK EXIST TO SUPPORT THE LESSON OBJECTIVE. ALSO LOOK AT THE CCRS AND ELPS
 * GOVERNMENT: BLUE
 * CULTURE: PINK
 * ECONOMICS: GREEN
 * GEOGRAPHY: BROWN/TAN
 * CITIZENSHIP: RED
 * SKILLS: WHITE
 * THREE BROAD SKILL CATEGORIES
 * CRITICAL THINKING
 * COMMUNICATION
 * PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION MAKING
 * THINK ABOUT HOW THE STUDENT EXPECTATION (SE) VERB HELPS YOU SHAPE THE SKILLS YOU UTILIZE IN CREATING THE LESSON

__**DIFFERENTIATION**__
 * How can we find out a student's reading level?
 * We can differentiate **CONTENT, PROCESS, PRODUCT** according to students' **LEARNING PROFILE, INTERESTS, READINESS**
 * MODEL FOR DIFFERENTIATING CONTENT MOVES FROM
 * FACTS, DETAILS, RULES, CONCEPTS to ISSUES, PROBLEMS, AND THEMES
 * CONCRETE (KNOW UNDERSTAND, USE) TO THE ABSTRACT (CREATE, ANALYZE, PROBLEM SOLVE)
 * ADVANCED LEARNERS
 * Strategies for GT Classroom: [|Texas Performance Standards Project]

__**STAAR OVERVIEW**__
 * **STRUCTURE & RIGOR**
 * STAAR: State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness--> Testing program
 * 76 questions; 68-Assessment/8- field test
 * 8000 BCE-1750: 18 questions
 * 1750-present: 20 questions
 * Geography & Culture: 10 questions
 * Government & Citizenship: 10 questions
 * Economics, Science & Tech: 10 questions
 * Skills will be integrated into at least 30% of the questions
 * Negative qualifiers in questions: not, except--> not bolded or underlined
 * Skills and Content are integrated
 * Questions may have multiple data inputs: maps, graphs, readings etc
 * Readings may be longer (could be as long as a page, but no more)
 * Multiple questions per stimuli (map, chart, graph, reading)
 * Chicago Style/Turabian documentation style
 * 4 hour time limit (students with extended time will most likely get it)
 * State accommodations will be applicable for STAAR/EOC
 * **READINESS & SUPPORTING STANDARDS- page 12 in DAY PPT Notes**
 * TEKS- 127 Student Expectations
 * 35-40% are READINESS STANDARDS---> will comprise 60-65% of the STAAR/EOC
 * 60-65% are SUPPORTING STANDARDS---> will comprise 35-40% of the STAAR/EOC
 * 10% Knowledge & Comprehension
 * 45% Application
 * 45% Analysis
 * 14 SEs are not assessed (30B is one of them; most of them are skills questions; 18F--> b/c if there is a set answer, then you aren't letting students formulate generalizations; also opinion based)
 * PERFORMANCE CATEGORIES
 * PASSING RATE: not set yet, but it will be set before the exam; should be set by December; said that the passing standard would be set for 3 years (commissioner can reassess and raise/lower the standards as needed)
 * passing standard will have a ceiling and a floor. If they fall in that range, then they don't have to retake. However, there will be a cumulative Social Studies total score that they must meet.
 * LEVEL III: Advanced Academic Performance
 * LEVEL II: Satisfactory Academic Performance
 * LEVEL I: Unsatisfactory Academic Performance
 * TEA STAAR WEBSITE: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/staar/
 * [[file:Blueprint-WorldHistory.pdf]]
 * [[file:AssessCurr-WorldHistory.pdf]]
 * [[file:STAAR-AssessingProcessSkills.pdf]]
 * No released exam until 2014
 * May have some sample questions in August or September

__**PROJECT SHARE**__

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