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Week 01 - Monday, 22 January 

During class (ppt)

After class

  • Assignments

  • 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)

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

  • 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)

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)

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

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

  • Complete & turn in Course Plan #2

  • Complete WTL

During class (ppt)

After class

  • Reading – none

  • Assignments

    • Complete and turn in curriculum map

    • Complete WTL on Wikipedia and/or generative AI

Week 10 - Monday, 27 March

Before class

  • Complete curriculum map

  • Complete WTL

During class (ppt)

  • Microteaching demo (sort of)

  • Sorting / scheduling our microteaching

  • Big Brain Thought #1: Wikipedia, generative AI, and the Inquiry Arc

  • Big Brain Thought #2: Pitching a 'pro-democracy' goal for history education, starting with a clumsy parallel with Ibram X. Kendi's work

  • Time permitting: Some playing around with images

After class

  • Reading

    • Wineburg, 2004

    • Optional: ISI, 2006

  • Assignments

    • Think about your unit overview – it is due next Mon (8 Apr)

    • Come to class prepared to go outside! We'll be doing a scaffolded geocache to get started on geography ed

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