Elementary Social Studies Update

 Elementary Social Studies Update April 9, 2021

The first Elementary Social Studies Pilot is complete!  

Dedicated teacher leaders from all grades, buildings and teaching contexts (Dual, ESL, Special Education too) engaged in facilitating this first pilot.

The Results of the Pilot of TCI Instructional Materials are IN!

Highlights of the pilot!

• Teachers loved having a resource, rather sources to use for teaching!  Vibrant primary sources like photos, maps, graphs and tables really hit a home run for our staff!
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Continued needs from the pilot:

• Lesson resources for instruction were not strong.  Significant re-working of the compelling questions, supporting questions and learning tasks made the resource challenging to use.  Significant planning would be required to ensure a tight alignment to the Arc of Inquiry.
• Little to no assessment opportunity that is aligned to the skills required of our Wisconsin students in terms of Inquiry and Argumentation. Teachers had to design this
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• Resources to effectively engage families would need to be developed in SDW
• Little to no recommended resources for engaging students who are learning English or who might have diverse learning needs
• Wisconsin requires an integrated approach to addressing standards (ie. no more geography or economics stand alone units), this resource was not integrated sufficiently without our reworking.

Our SECOND PILOT will start on April 19th!  We will be piloting the Impact Social Studies Resources through May.  Updates on the progress of the next Pilot will be communicated early May, and the results of our teachers experience will be gathered via survey to inform next steps.

Check out the Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting from April 6th

Here Hadaasa Robinson and Lucia Torres present with the team on the pilot 1 experience.