Evaluation Strategies (LEARN & Partners)

PACC Adult Education Evaluation Support materials
Teachers Matthew Taddeo and John Mackett, working alongside Pedagogical Consultant Shiela Sachdeva, have produced a series of sample questions and a complete review test with curated documents.  These tools effectively support the intellectual operations for the Adult Contemporary World 1 course (Environment Population, Wealth).  Their working Google Doc folder is available now!  Go to site

Learning Situations (LEARN & Partners)

Tensions & Conflicts - Rwandan Genocide Learning Intentions document collection
A working set of documents and other curated resources in support of program-specific learning intentions (targetted knowledge in the precisions).  Also, this collection uses three Model Teaching strategies suggested in the MEES C.W. training sessions in 2018. 
To access working Google Document:   Go to site 

Tensions & Conflict: The Rwandan Genocide through graphic novels and interviews
An examination of history through media, using interviews and video testimonials of survivors, and through use of the graphic novel Smile Through the Tears. 

Teacher's Guide Word doc:  Download  PDF version:  Download  
Student Booklet Word doc:  Download  PDF version:  Download 

Wealth:  Distribution of Wealth and Emerging Economies
(Balancing social justice with economic development)
An approach that looks at poverty and economic disparity around the world, examines causes and reflects on our own role as consumers.  Students look at products we use in everyday life, media representations of those products, and consider real responses from youth in the emerging economies where those products are produced.  Archive of older Google Doc version:  Download

Power:  The sovereignty of states and economic or political associations 
The case of Turkey and the European Union
LES that examines economic and political associations.  Focus on European Union, history and issues in general, then interpretation specifically around the entry application of Turkey to join the EU.  Link to archived Google Doc version:  Go to site

Tensions and Conflict: Behind and Beyond the Oil Barrel
LES on the theme Tension and Conflict, focussing on present-day issues surrounding oil production and related foreign interventions.
Student Logbook PDF:  Download   Teacher's Guide:  Download

LEARN Web-based tools

Cartograf Mapping and Drawing Application
LEARN-RECITUS open-source, interactive web-based mapping and drawing application. It allows students and teachers to create and share maps, collect and analyze images, and work collaboratively on class projects!  Go to page

LESSONS ONLINE RELATED TO C.W.

Making Sense of World Conflicts
Teach about war and conflict using this free resource for teachers Oxfam.
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/making-sense-of-world-conflicts

Teaching Divided Histories - International Conflict from Schools Online.
five lessons that describe and summarise conflicts that have taken place in Northern Ireland, India, Lebanon, Sierra Leone and South Africa https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/classroom-resources/list/teaching-divided-histories-international-conflict  

Section under construction. 
Send lessons you have found or made for CW to prombough@learnquebec.ca

UDL in a Social Sciences Context:  
Resources and Challenges in a Digital Age

Thinking about how you might adjust your History content and practices for all learning styles and experiences?  LEARN online resources, in line with the secondary and new adult education history courses, can help you engage your students, explore, use and also interpret events for a variety of situations.  Recently I shared a presentation on new templates structured around UDL with some teachers at the ACE Online summit.  A video presentation on the First part on Engage is available at https://youtu.be/p5uS6IxKjfk   

Social Sciences Online and in a Digital Age

Follow along as new learning scenario examples are added throughout the year.  You will find tips, tricks and tools to help you teach online and in a digital age, using LEARN’s various resources, in response to the QEP program's approaches and according to an inquiry learning model.  Visit the Secondary version   Visit the Elementary Version   (Note too that in 2020 Paul Rombough also presented these strategies in an information online session available here.)

LEARN Blog entries for Social Sciences teachers

The LEARN blog is full of fascinating articles, all of which can contribute to your development as a teacher... and they are fun to read!  Here are a few especially for us Social Sciences folk:

• Learning in Place: Working towards a local history learning toolkit Go to page
• Native-Land.ca - First Stop on a Journey Through Territory & Time Go to page
• Teachers as Cultural Facilitators in the Social Sciences Go to page
• Beginners No More: Social Sciences Online in a Digital Age Go to page
• Podcasts for Professional Development  Go to page 
• Feedback Street: Formative Assessment in History.  Go to page 
• Flipped History: A new approach for a new curriculum.  Go to page
• History of Quebec and Canada – Planning for a new curriculum.  Go to page
• Rapping Across the Curriculum.  Go to page
• A Time and a Place for Elsewhere: The Role of Context...  Go to page
• Geolocalize it: The global context of everything.  Go to page
• iPadding… upstream! How do you manage it?  Go to page
• 3 a.m. blogging, and why social sciences should be social, & public! Go to page
• Cartograf: Taking time for power mapping.  Go to page
• Imagining a more meaningful and contributive future for education.  Go to page
• History, reality…. and parties.  Go to page
• Life stories in the classroom, and beyond!  Go to page

Media and Podcasts in Social Sciences

After posting the excellent blog post by Matt Russell on Podcasts for Professional Development on the LEARN main blog, we started up a section dedicated to online media for PD for the Social Sciences teacher.  Go to page

Learning Communities & Professional Associations

Various associations and groups allow SocSci teachers to communicate and share, and to develop as professional learners.  Here is a list of few key groups:

• Secondary 3 History Professional Community
  Commununauté Histoire du Québec et du Canada. Go to site 
• Quebec Association of Geography Teachers and Global Educators Go to site 
• L'Association Québécoise pour la didactique de l'histoire-géographie. Go to site 
• Association québécoise pour l’enseignement en univers social. Go to site 
  Visit and join their Facebook page and group too!  Go to site 
• Société des professeurs d'histoire du Québec. Go to site 
• Le groupe des responsables de l'univers social. Go to site 

Our Presentation on Historical Thinking (Matt R and Paul R)

Matt R. (WQSB) and I (Paul R from LEARN) presented on HIstorical Thinking concepts and strategies at LCEEQ a few years back.  Here are a few ideas and resources we presented: 

• Key links we mentioned:
  • Main Historical Thinking Site on Historical Thinking.ca.  And to order the book The Big Six
  • The Historical Thinking concepts and specifically their guideposts document 
     
• Our Google Slide documents 
  • Our Powerpoint temporarily available here
  • Historical Event cards created with screenshots from Canadian Encyclopedia timelines
     
• Graphic Organizers:   
  • (Remarkable and Reveal)  Single page and Huge Electronic versions for online collaboration are available below and in main-page Graphic Organizers section for Situate in Time and Space (Long version contains link to event cards)
  • Consequences Placemat for Degree of Influence (and similar for Relevance).  Available below and in main-page Graphic Organizers section for Cause and Consequence
  • Historical Collection and Consequence Cards: Historical Collection #26 on American Revolution consequences.  Including consequence cards to print (Note:  Many other doc. collections via History of Quebec & Canada and the Communauté)
• A few video suggestions:
  • What is Historical Thinking:  for Historical Thinking skills, especially Evidence and Perspectives by @teachinghistory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJLmWnxrPg … Many of our "Intellectual Operations" involved. Good (U.S. History) examples
  • The Importance of studying History:   Historical Thinking Concepts overview and notion of a Growth Mindset, looking in the future.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iehEwDvwTfg

Paul Rombough

My main dossiers at LEARN include:

Social Sciences (CW, History, Geography)
Ethics and Religious Culture
Physical Education and Health
Education for Reconciliation
Sexuality Education

Paul Rombough @paulrombo

Some other Twitter folks worth following

Emilie Bowles @ebowles_RECIT 

Matt Russell @historyrussell 
Craig Bullett  @RECIT4ESSB 
Dan Hedges @dhedgegrove
Joan Zachariou @SSLBPSB
Maureen Baron @maureenbaron

RÉCIT de l'univers social @recitus

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