TLT 431, Spring 2024 - Course record

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Week 01 - Monday, 22 January 

During class (ppt)

• Introductions, overviews

  • As a demo of the wiki, and as a follow up to our intro bit, here are a couple resources that might help you engage with getting-to-know-one-another routines for your classroom

    • https://psychlearningcurve.org/10-tips-for-creating-rapport-in-the-classroom/

    • https://smartclassroommanagement.com/2015/08/08/how-to-build-rapport-on-the-first-day-of-school/

• Social studies as a job: Take a look at job openings in Allentown SD (click on HS or MS links): https://www.applitrack.com/Allentown/onlineapp/jobpostings/view.asp?internaltransferform_Url&category=High%20School%20Teaching&subcategory=Social%20Studies

• Looking at some local(-ish) courses of study in social studies

  • Allentown SD program of studies – link to pdf at bottom of this page: https://www.allentownsd.org/parents___students/student_resources/program_of_studies

  • Bethlehem Area School District 2019-20 (start at p. 23): https://basdwpweb.beth.k12.pa.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/11/FINAL-District-POS-2019-2020.pdf

  • Southern Lehigh 2023-24 (: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NoL31ds_XugRLTI9LfxOIE__0BRdXaaW/view

  • Kutztown Area School District (K-12): https://www.kasd.org/academics/curriculum-assessment-and-professional-development/social-studies

• Frameworks & illustrating activities

  • Built environment scavenger hunt / community resources

    • This can be done a lot of ways. We’re doing something super simple (just photos and a paper checklist), but you can also do it (or do variations of it) using…

      • ArcGIS Online: https://lu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=e949efad87e142ef924c49d6617bf0de

      • Google Earth

    • Demonstration lesson #2: “Whose Land?” reflection & investigation

      • I’m going to ask you to use your ArcGIS Online account: lu.maps.arcgis.com

      • And here are the instructions (and example): https://docs.google.com/document/d/13pYrJPimsRVzk2W8ugmYA8-qL_T-us_Z8o1DCCpAmvo/edit?usp=sharing

• Goals for the course, last framing metaphor

• Syllabus review, looking over assignments

• Closure

After class

• Assignments

  • Starting working on your first Original Instructional Material (OIM)

  • Writing-to-Learn (WTL): Complete your 'Social Studies Autobiography' (just a webform): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdX5krCKkfRd3h8VFFkuUZMhS71cLnW8xZQy4yt9ve9MHTYnA/viewform?usp=sf_link

  • Download all of the standards in the folder in CourseSite. Save them on your computer in an easily-accessible space

• Reading

  • Skim the C3 standards ('College, Career, and Civic Life') from the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

  • Chapin, Ch. 1

  • Read NCSS, 2008. In fact, the whole list of NCSS position statements is probably worth bookmarking!

  • Read Gaudelli & Laverty, 2017 (find it in the 'Copyrighted readings' folder in CourseSite. FYI: Gaudelli is the dean of Lehigh's College of Ed, so give this a think!

  • Optional – again, you can find these in the 'Copyrighted readings' folder in CourseSite: Mehlinger, 1988; Crocco, 2004

Week 02 - Monday, 29 January 

Before class

• Complete reading

• Fill out your 'Social studies autobiography' 

• Download & organize standards documents

During class (ppt)

• Brief re-visit of frameworks from last week

• New framework: Goals / stances for teaching social studies

  • Illustrative activity: Image markup, looking at branches of government

• Purposes of social studies; what kind of citizen?

• Eco as a starting point for discussing civics & the civic-focused mission of social studies: 

  https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/  

• Civics standards (light touch)

• Pedagogical strategies for teaching civics – let's mess around on the JamBoard here: 

  https://jamboard.google.com/d/1Z5Bgz3_SqYV1Wb0KzVQ9KntoOiGsW-NyRGXJZMFJ7o0/edit?usp=drive_link

• Closure

After class

• Read civics standards: PDE + C3 civics section 

• Westheimer & Kahne (‘What kind of citizen’) – skim; go in depth if you wish

• Chapin, Ch. 7 (“Civic Education & Global Education”, in the 4th edition; note that I’m not fully engaging with the global ed part, but please do read it)

• Complete & bring to class your first Original Instructional Material (OIM)

• Writing-to-Learn (WTL) in CourseSite on standards & question of ‘What kind of citizen?’

Week 03 - Monday, 5 February 

Before class

• Complete & bring in your OIP #1

• Complete reading

• Complete WTL

During class (ppt)

• Current events??

• OIM show-and-tell

  • TCH sharing his OIM: Government Game (Southside Bethlehem edition) – see ActionBound.com to learn how to build this type of game

  • Connecting OIMs to TPACK…

  • Connecting OIMs to standards, particularly civics standards

• Standards in social studies – I’m about to say something dangerous, or at least contestable….

• Act 35 in Pennsylvania: Civics, authority, and a permission structure for professional disrespect

• Instructional planning: FRAMES for planning instruction

  • Giving-prompting-making (for any content area)

  • Self-others-action (particularly for civics?)

• Closure

After class

• Reading

  • Chapin, Ch. 2 (instructional planning)

  • optional: Hammond & Manfra, 2009 (giving-prompting-making)

• Assignments

  • Create & turn in HTCE image set

  • WTL on civics (two-parter!)

  • Think about OIM #2

Week 04 - Tuesday, February 12

Before class

• Create & turn in HTCE image set

• WTL on civics

• (Thoughts about OIM #2? We’ll want to discuss in class)

During class (ppt)

• Current events? I’m thinking about news.google.com – can you curate a version of the news feed to give you what you need for a civics class??

• Housekeeping

• Sequencing – civics-first is a relatively recent move for me…why??

• And a warm up civics activity: let’s have a debate!

• Rationales for the emphasis on civics

  • NCSS

  • (vs. the usual inertia)

  • my evolving rationale

  • re-thinking some classic civics moves

    • Re-thinking debates: Who gets to call too-close-to-call elections?

    • ‘Structures of government’ lesson – re-build this to emphasize democracy & its virtues?? (stand-alone Jamboard)

  • Attempted social frame for my civics rationale

• A special case: Games & simulations for civics; games = civics …and civics = games??

• A very special case: Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes simulation (start at 5:00; trigger warning for language depending on how far we get!)

• More games (& simulations) for civics: iCivics.org/games

• Closure

After class

• Reading: Chapin, Ch. 3

• Complete & turn in OIM #2

• Complete WTL on iCivics games

Week 05 - Tuesday, February 19

Before class

• Complete reading

• Complete OIM #2

• Complete WTL

During class (ppt)

• Housekeeping & framing ideas to date

• Touching some final resources / activities for civics

  • iCivics: https://www.icivics.org/games

  • Project Citizen: https://www.civiced.org/project-citizen

  • Street Law: https://store.streetlaw.org/lessons/

  • Current events! Suggested principles

    • Local > non-local

      • https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-school-religious-garb-ban/

      • https://www.phillyvoice.com/pa-senate-reverse-religious-apparel-ban-teachers-classroom/

    • Engage students: Seek relevance; leave room for voice/choice

    • Link to civic knowledge / skills / dispositions

      • PA Constitution: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/00/00.HTM

    • Set up routines

• Civics as the integrative discipline

  • Legislated civics

    • Constitution Day / Citizenship Day: https://www2.ed.gov/policy/fund/guid/constitutionday.html

    • PA Act 70 of 2014: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/li/uconsCheck.cfm?yr=2014&sessInd=0&act=70

  • Civics & geography

    • Water infrastructure: https://lu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=e4f2cc5fe9ce443cbf617166780b5153

    • What's in a state name

      • Spreadsheet

      • Map

  • Civics & history

    • Signers of Declaration of Independence: https://lu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=e4f2cc5fe9ce443cbf617166780b5153

  • Civics & economics

    • Food supply chain (rare complete example): https://aihstigers.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=455d0839ee4b4e2cb92978c8b9b38807

• Closure

After class

• Read Chapin, Ch. 4

• Complete & turn in Course Plan #1

• Write the history of the world...in 30 minutes or less

Week 6 - Monday, 26 February

Before class

• Complete reading

• Turn in Course Plan #1

• Complete WTL

During class (ppt)

• Housekeeping

• History ed – time to get started!

  • Opening activity: "Story of Aaron", using info drawn from http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/

    • De-brief...

  • A couple of frames for history ed

    • "History for democracy"?

    • History vs. history ed

  • Activity #2: Jewish populations before vs. after Holocaust

    • Starting point

      • https://www.yadvashem.org/IMAGE_TYPE/8381.jpg

      • https://www.yadvashem.org/IMAGE_TYPE/8380.jpg

    • So I put it on a map

      • Using contemporary boundaries...  https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=0f952aee6f1142f3a36577c1c3fa81c3&extent=-16.7872,36.2982,69.3457,63.7343

      • (Need something that is accurate to 1933 ... or 1936? 1939? 

  • An attempted contrast

    • Virginia Center for Digital History at UVA: http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.php?page=VCDH

    • Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond: https://dsl.richmond.edu/index.html

  • Three tactics for teaching history while engaging civics

    • Putting a lamp on the pluralism / emphasize the inclusion / wave the diversity banner

    • "So what?" strategy

      • I did this via a digital documentary tool, PrimaryAccess, but you can do it with anything: https://stagetools.com/vis/pa/

    • "Doing history" via Wikipedia...which I think is the best platform for it

      • Frederick Winslow Taylor; we'll dip into his Principles of Scientific Management (1912) just briefly: https://archive.org/details/principlesofscie00taylrich/page/44/mode/2up?view=theater

      • Entry on Henry Noll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Noll

      • Demonstrating read vs. write vs. talk vs. history: Use the Wikipedia Main Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) and explore the 'In the news” and “On this day” and “Did you know” features to pick an article to demonstrate…

      • Example of growth in a Wikipedia entry

        • From 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Over-the-Rhine&oldid=11921580

        • Current: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Over-the-Rhine 

• Closure

After class

• Reading

  • Chapin, Ch. 6

  • Read history standards (PDE, C3)

  • Skim Hammond, 2010 if you want to read more about ‘So what?’ activity 

• Assignments

  • Think about Course Plan #2…but it’s not due!

  • WTL: What is your current pattern of use of Wikipedia? Is there a topic in the history curriculum for which you think you might find it useful?

Week 07 - Monday, 4 March 

Before class

• Complete reading

• Think about Course Plan #2!

• Complete WTL

During class (ppt)

• Housekeeping

• History education - 'Signature pedagogies'; we'll be dipping in and out of our JamBoard for this

  • Chronology

  • Sourcework

    • From DocsTeach at the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets

  • Narrative...but this needs some help

    • Frameworks: One is good, two is better? 

    • Periodization

After class

• Reading

  • C3 standards: Read the section on the Inquiry Arc

  • Catch up on anything in the textbook or standards that you didn’t get to from previous weeks

  • Optional: For the historical thinking nerds, you have to read Wineburg, 1991

• Assignments

  • WTL post to warm up to Course Plan #2 (please do before spring break!)

  • Complete & turn in Course Plan #2 (after spring break)

  • WTL on history ed resources (whenever)

Week 08 - Monday, 11 March – No class! Lehigh is on Spring Break! 

Week 09 - Monday, 18 March

Before class

During class (ppt)