History 420 SyllabusPeters Spring 2012 P 1

Course Number: History 420, Summer 2012 Course Title: Teaching the Social Sciences Credit Hours: 3 hours undergraduate/4 hours graduate Department: History Catalog Description: This course focuses on acquiring and practicing the skills for teaching the social sciences at the secondary level within the context of history. Authorized Instructor(s): Prof. Julie L. Peters Office: 926 UH Office Hours: 12-1 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Contact Information: jlpeters@uic.edu/312-413-9163 Prerequisites: 9 hours of credit in social science at the college level; approval of instructor Required Textbooks, materials, and readings: There is no assigned textbook for this class. However, a collection of readings is required and may be purchased at the UIC bookstore. In addition, you will need to join the class Wiki page (instructions to be provided) Methods of Instruction: Lecture, discussion, student presentations, group activities, guest speakers, computer lab presentations. Course background/purpose: The aim of this course is to prepare you to become a social sciences teacher. We will examine the specific areas included in social sciences: political science, economics, geography, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Although history is certainly the main topic we associate with social sciences, we will leave history behind for this class and take a closer look at the other subject areas you may be asked to teach. We will also focus a great deal of time on the art of creating lesson plans, activities, and assessments. We will spend time learning about scaffolding lesson plans using elements of Universal Design and strategies for English Language Learners. You should leave this class with a lot of ideas as well as some tools you can use as a teacher, both those youve created and those your colleagues have shared with you. We will also focus on using technology in the classroom. Course Schedule: History 420 Course Calendartentative dates Topic(s) Readings Assignments Due Syllabus and Course Schedule Purchase your reading packet Discussion of expectations, etc. What are we doing and why are we doing it? Who are the stakeholders in the process? Citizenship Building Illinois State Standards and Common Core Requirements Illinois Professional Teaching Standards How do we do it? Goals and objectives, units, enduring understandings, essential Reading: pp. 1-17, p. 19, pp. 21-24 as review.

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questions, elements of lesson plans. How clear objectives keep learning fair for all students How will they learn? Creating engaging learning activities for individual, partner, and group learning. Including All Learners using Universal Design for Learning

Read pp. 25-44/4556 pp. 57-104. Assignment #1 due

pp. 127-145 watch UDL video tutorial pp. 147-154, 213256 Readings as assigned pp. 57-75

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Teaching English Language Learners and Using Reading Strategies Differentiating lesson plans and using technology Assessment: using formative and summative assessments. MEMORIAL DAY---NO CLASS Teaching Geography

Assignment #1 revision due

Revised #1 returned Assignment #2 due

May 29

Teaching Political Science: Citizenship

Reading Packet materials Teaching Geography Reading Packet: Teaching Political Science

Post resource on teaching Geography. Assignment #2 returned Post resource on teaching Political Science/Civics/Government Assignment #3 and #2 revision due

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Teaching Psychology

Reading Packet materials: teaching psychology Review materials in packet

Assignment #3 returned Post resource on teaching psychology Assignment #4 and #3 revision due Post resource on teaching sociology or anthropology Visit wiki page on economics resources and report on what you found most useful Assignment #4 returned

June 1

Teaching Sociology and Anthropology

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Teaching Economics

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June 7

No Class: work on annotated lesson plan and/or meet individually with Prof. Peters Peer edit annotated lesson plan

Revised #4 due: electronic copy to jlpeters@uic.edu Bring rough draft and extra copy of annotated lesson plan Final: annotated lesson plan due in 926 UH

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Course expectations and grading: I expect you to come to class ready to discuss the readings, to share your lesson plans, and to constructively assess your colleagues work. Please read the syllabus closely so that you are familiar with my policy regarding attendance, late work, and grading. Do not hesitate to ask me questions or to speak with me about this class or about your teaching of history program. Participation and Attendance Attendance is required. As a professional courtesy, please try to let me know ahead of time if you will be absent for any reason. If you miss more than 2 classes you will be unable to earn an A in this course. Participation will be assessed on such factors as your ability to discuss the readings, your willingness to take part in group activities, and your willingness to actively listen to your colleagues. I do not give specific points for participation, but this is subjectively factored into your grade. Please make every effort to be on time. Because it is important to me that you master the skills of writing good lesson plans, I will give each of you the opportunity to resubmit work for partial additional credit if you make arrangements with me. When you turn in your revised work, please include the original graded work along with the revision. Assignments are due at the start of class. Work turned in after it is due will be considered late. Late work will be deducted 10% of the points earned PER DAY and will not be accepted after the next class date. If you send a copy of your assignment via email it will be subject to a 5 point printing penalty (unless you were sick or had another similar reason for missing class). If you are going to be absent, please email me your assignment (see comment above about printing) or send it with someone from class. All work must be typed, proofed for spelling errors, and free of grammatical/mechanical errors. Please see UIC policy regarding plagiarism. Grading UIC does not allow me to give + or grades. Therefore, although the scale below is quite generous for determining letter grades, I will balance this with high expectations for each assignment: A=100-90% B=89-80% C=79-70% D=69-60% F=59% and below Points Assignment #1: Objectives Assignment #2 Activities Assignment #3 Assessments Assignment #4: Lesson Plan Annotated Lesson Plan draft Annotated Lesson Plan Final Project Total Points: 200

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Summary of Assignments: Rubrics to follow Assignment #1: Using your chosen area of social studies, you will create enduring understandings, essential questions, and objectives for a particular lesson you will begin to develop. Assignment #2: Using the same subject matter, you will create learning activities to address the essential questions, teach the enduring understandings and teach the objectives you created in Assignment #1. Assignment #3: Continuing with the same subject matter, you will create assessments to find out: have your students learned the objectives? Are they are working toward learning the enduring understandings? Can they begin to answer the essential questions you created in Assignment #1? Assignment #4: Putting it all together. You will combine and fine tune everything you have created in Assignments #1-3 and create a one-day lesson plan. Final Project: Annotated Lesson Plan. Using your one day lesson plan, you will annotate it to show where you taught objectives, how you assessed learning, how you differentiated the lesson to include diverse learning needs and styles, etc. A rough draft of the lesson will be due on June 7 for peer editing

History 420 SyllabusPeters Spring 2010