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Mumbleypeg 2015

9/16/2015

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Get set for the 6th annual Pacific Slope Retreat and SD13 AGM.  This year, we take to the shores of Purden Lake and the "Lewis-Spike Conference Centre" for a plenary session on Thu., Sep 24th starting at 6:00 p.m. and seminar sessions on Fri., Sep 25th from 9:30-2:30.

Once the traditional knife-tossing game and steak dinner are out of the way, we have an ambitious agenda.

This year we will explore design aesthetics for courses under the new curriculum.  What elements of design should guide us as we put the new BC Social Studies curriculum through its paces?  What kind of frameworks can we use to make sense of the swirling mass of competencies, skills, and content?  Is it that easy to pick and choose from among the (vast) content areas (now even vaster with the curriculum re-org)  in order to address competence, or is SS more like Math in that there is some core content that is necessary for students to encounter in sequence? Can we map this out using the "juggernaut" of the new SS9 as a test case? What's the difference between history and SS? What if we used a geographic framework to understand our role as SS teachers, or sociological, philosophical, ecological, anthropological for that matter? What does the new focus on Aboriginal content actually mean when it comes to course design? How do we broach the subject of historical revisionism as we look to a post-colonial curriculum and pedagogy?

When that whole business devolves into a cage match, we have a practical topic to go to -- an evaluation of the teaching resources posted at http://historyskills.jimdo.com/ including a document on written essays.

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Fred
9/24/2015 07:09:54 pm

A little more heads-up and I'm there. Who could refuse a knife throwing pro-d opportunity? Any Admin or MYBCED folks involved? If I start packing the camper now....

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Michael link
9/30/2015 03:51:03 am

I would be interested in knowing the results of your discussion regarding the evaluation of the history website.

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Glen Thielmann
9/30/2015 01:16:29 pm

Hi Michael. I poked around the site a bit. I especially like the source criticism -- it gives students some concrete things to aim for when decoding sources. I found the site would be a bit tough for our (Canadian) grade 8-10 students to follow, but certainly our senior students and beyond could find this useful. For our group discussion we only used the essay writing guidelines -- we talked about how to teach research essay writing and about what steps from the guide would be useful. We found the examples a bit hard (for use with students), and figure we'd have to make up our own that use much simpler language and topics (e.g. one of our group used "Why Bobby Orr is the greatest hockey player ever" as his teaching example to show how to structure an essay). JP, a member from our group, may have more to say about the site as it was his idea to use it. Follow him on twitter @jpmartin70 or email him jpsd13@gmail.com if you want to continue the discussion.

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Michael link
9/30/2015 11:15:10 pm

Thanks Glen. I really appreciate the feedback. I always like to find ways to improve the content on the site and I will definitely take the group's feedback on board and see what I can incorporate to benefit the younger grades. Thanks again for taking the time to reply and I hope all is going well in wonderful Canada. I hope to visit there one day.

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Michael link
2/10/2019 12:14:19 pm

I know it's been over two years since I last commented, but I have not forgotten the feedback provided. I thought I would let you know that I wrote a blog post regarding this and hoped it might prove helpful to you and your peers. https://www.historyskills.com/2019/02/11/a-guide-to-teaching-essay-structure/

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Sophia
4/21/2019 12:34:16 am

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