Essential-Agreements

National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines Site: www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docld=5006534395

=Essential Teaching Agreements Social Sciences=

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SAS Educators of the Social Sciences and Sciences will…

 * 1) Create student assessments and activities that demonstrate critical, creative, and ethical thinking.
 * 2) Provide frequent opportunities for students to communicate ideas and understandings in writing.
 * 3) Assess student skills and understandings using at least one common assessment per semester or trimester within each grade level or course.
 * 4) Plan collaboratively across and transcending grade levels
 * 5) Align instruction with SAS adopted Standard and Benchmarks at the appropriate grade level.
 * 6) Provide students with plentiful opportunities to make authentic connections to the world around them.
 * 7) Integrate media and informational literacy targeted toward proficiency in methods of inquiry, analyzing, organizing, and using data into planning and instruction
 * 8) Incorporate a variety of primary and secondary resources which accommodate a wide range of interests and reading abilities.
 * 9) Integrate current and valid social science concepts, principles, and theories with the broader curriculum (art, music, P.E., global languages, etc).



Teachers of Social Sciences at Shanghai American School will ensure that…

1. They teach the agreed upon Standard and Benchmark for their grade level and subject. 2. They give at least one common assessment per quarter (teachers of the same grade level, class/subject). These assessments will be based upon common agreements). 3. They intergrate a media-tech unit (information skills with tech skills) in coordination with the librarian and technology integrationist, ie digital literacy once per semester. They will develop proficiency in methods of inquiry, analyzing, organizing and using data 4. They plan together, vertically and horizontally, using the UbD template. 5. They provide the opportunity for students to make connections to themselves and to the world around them. 6. They use a variety of primary and secondary resources that accommodate a wide range of interests and reading abilities. 7. They create opportunities to demonstrate critical, creative, and ethical thinking. 8. They integrate current valid social science concepts, principles, and theories with the larger curriculum (art, music, P.E., global languages, etc). 9. They provide opportunities for students to communicate social studies ideas and understandings in writing.