Sharing our experiences from TAH4 Petaluma (CA)

March 2012CCSS Conference.

Teacher Leaders: Leslie Ihrig, 5th gr., Petaluma City Schools

Lisa Beaudry, 5th gr., Old Adobe Elementary School District

Joan Newcomb, 5th gr, Cotati-Rohnert Park School District

Shirley Jenner, 5th gr, Bellevue ElementarySchool District

Tracy West, 5th gr, Wright Elementary School District

Christina Lunde, 5th gr, Novator School District.

TAH Petaluma Project Co-Directors: Nancy Case-Rico, Sonoma State University

Sue Olds, Petaluma City Schools.

Elementary consortium project with Sonoma State University History and Education professors.

8 district partners; 47 upper elementary teachers; 8 teacher leaders.

Three-year cohort (kept 44 for 3 years)

3 Saturdays within year; two-week institute each summer including a field trip.

• Drs. Margaret Purser and Michelle Jolly wove together the fabric of our history using three overarching themes.

• Through lecture and hands-on activities, with rich content, teachers made the connections that bring history to life for students.

• All content was driven by the HSS Standards

Year one - “ethnogenesis” -first contact and exploration.

Year two - “palimpsest” –colonial communities.

Year three - “heritage” -revolution and constitution

o Ethnogenesis describes the process that occurs when two or more cultures come together.

o In TAH, teachers used this term to analyze the continued process of combining cultures, starting with “first contact” between Europeans and Native Americans.

o The two-week institute culminated in various, teacher selected field trips (i.e., Fort Ross, Angel Island, and San Francisco Maritime Museum)

Palimpsest is a parchment (or the like) from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.

Teachers used this term to think about the layers of history that have not been entirely erased, but are just below the surface.

The two-week institute culminated in a trip to Monterey, where palimpsest is evident at every turn; early Native Americans, Spanish missions, Mexican and American influences abound through architecture, culture, and environment.

Heritage is the stories we tell today about events that occurred in the past.

Teachers used this term to examine familiar and unfamiliar American stories.

This institute culminated in a field trip to Philadelphia, Plimoth Plantation, and Boston.

Themes helped to structure the year and cover all the HSS content standards.

Focus on rich history content allowed teachers to use district purchased curriculum and “bump it up a notch.”

Understanding the “big picture” made it easier to help kids make connections.

Deeper knowledge of history created teacher “history geeks” and infectious learning for kids!

Provide a pedagogical framework for classroom adaptation.

Nancy

Consider content goals for each session;

Careful selection of strategies to use;

Each presentation was designed with the (content) standard first;

How to use and model the appropriate pedagogical strategy;

And then, how to scaffold the lesson further.

THE SIOP MODELSheltered Instruction Observation

Protocol•A lesson study for creating the bestlesson for your ELL’s.

•Disclaimer.

* A 30 point check list for teachers toassess their lesson.

Content objectives

Language objectives

Content concepts

Supplementary Materials

Adaptation of content

Meaningful Activities

CONTENT OBJECTIVES LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES

TO ID TERMS-

TO SOLVE-

INVESTIGATE-DISTINGUISH-HYPOTHESIZE-

CREATE-

SELECT-

DRAW CONCLUSIONS

LISTEN FOR-RETELL-DEFINE-FIND MAIN IDEA-

COMPARE-SUMMARIZE-REHEARSE-PERSUADE-WRITE

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Cave Time

Planning Time

Institute Projects

Implementation To The Classroom

Before TAH

State Expo Project

- tri-fold poster

-research the state

-focused on state facts

-present the facts

-hand-drawn brochure

-checklist for grading

After TAH tri-fold poster maps - salt dough map state research on themes -

culture, economy, society, politics, environment

Word Brochure character study/biography

role-play Powerpoint State Tour Palimpsest Project scaffolded for various

language levels rubric gradesheet reading lessons using

encyclopedias

tri-fold poster maps - salt dough map state research on themes -culture,

economy, society, politics, environment

Word Brochure character study/biography role-play Powerpoint State Tour Palimpsest Project scaffolded for various language levels rubric gradesheet reading lessons using encyclopedias

Students will select one historical landmark or town from their state, then identify the themes, society, culture, environment, economics, within that location. Students will focus on how the location has changed, stayed the

same, and been used by the different people who have been there.Modeled after the RL Crumb Comic Strip “Short American History”

Literature Circles

Field Trips

Graffiti Walls

Picture File Cards

Comic Strip

Powerpoint Presentation

Tea Parties

Write Around

Consistent academic staff – professors, teacher leaders, grant directors commit for three years.

Teachers felt honored as professionals who understood needs of classroom.

Teacher leaders included as equal partners in planning

US History -- local, relevant, meaningful

Lesson plan template

Agendas

Lessons developed by participants

Professor resources

Links include◦ Teaching History Resources

◦ Reading and Writing Strategies

◦ Grant Generated Lesson Plans

◦ Current Calendar of Events

◦ Past Institutes and Activities

Lisa Beaudry, La Tercera Elem, Old Adobe ESD, mandlbeau@comcast.net

Leslie Ihrig, Grant School, Petaluma SD leslieihrig@comcast.net

Shirley Jenner, Meadow View Elem, Bellevue ESD sjenner@bellevueusd.org

Christina Lunde, Olive Elementary, Novato SD clunde@nusd.org

Joan Newcomb, Monte Vista Elem, Cotati SD, joan_newcomb@comcast.net

Tracy West, Robert L. Stevens, Wright ESD twest@wrightesd.org