14 January Meeting Minutes
Minutes for TAH meeting held 14 January 2005 at CATE.
Present: Mark Horney, Lynne Anderson-Inman, Dawne Huckaby, Cathy Chenail, Marsha Santos, David del Mar, Kevin Hatfield, Mark Spence & Lizzie Reis
We discussed three topics at this meeting. First, Cathy Chenail led a discussion about the Oregon state standards and how they will impact the project. We examined the history standards and noted the distinction between those related to particular historical events, and those more processed oriented. Cathy pointed out the importance for incorporating Language Arts standards in our plans. This is especially important for elementary teachers since so much of their curriculum is dedicated to reading and writing. Cathy argued that elementary teachers would be hard pressed to join the project if the focus is exclusively on the History standards.
These points were reinforced by Marsha Santos, a middle school social studies teacher from Glide, joining us for the first time. It was decided that Cathy will recruit a team of teachers such as Marsha, from across Douglas County to assist with planning the project. This group will meet for the first time with the rest of the project staff on 1 February at the ESD at 9am for an all day work session.
Dawne pointed out a new set of Oregon standards that will be coming into use in the next year. These are the standards for "Social Science Analysis." These standards require students to submit work samples demonstrating their skills in Framing, Researching, Examining, and Drawing Conclusions about issues arising from social science. If we can use incorporate these standards as central to TAH, teachers will have a strong motivation to participate in the project. There will be video conference on this topic on 25 January. There is information about accessing the video feed online in a previous posting.
The second part if the meeting was given over to discussing the lists of themes that have emerged from the Historians. In this discussion Mark Spence ask about how teachers describe the different strands that make up a year's curriculum. In thinking about this we decided to adopt a new strategy for using historical themes in the project and for guiding the work of the historians in gathering historical resources. This involves creating a chart crossing the time periods, topics, and Common Curricular goals used by teachers on the one hand or organize their classes from week to week, and historical themes on the other. The contents of each cell in the chart will be particular topics and resources that fall within the given time period and which illustrate the given theme. The TAH Teacher Advisory group has been charged to generate the time periods, et al. generally used to organized their curriculum. Once this is available, the historians will generate themes that are generally applicable across most of each curriculum item. More about this in later posts.
The third topic of the meeting is a problem with the scheduling of the summer institute. It turns out that the Douglas County Fair falls during the week of 8 August, which is the first week of the institute as now scheduled. This conflict will likely cause severe problems for participating teachers. We didn't come to any decision about what to do about this.
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If anyone has corrections or additions to these minutes, please email them to me at mhorney@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Present: Mark Horney, Lynne Anderson-Inman, Dawne Huckaby, Cathy Chenail, Marsha Santos, David del Mar, Kevin Hatfield, Mark Spence & Lizzie Reis
We discussed three topics at this meeting. First, Cathy Chenail led a discussion about the Oregon state standards and how they will impact the project. We examined the history standards and noted the distinction between those related to particular historical events, and those more processed oriented. Cathy pointed out the importance for incorporating Language Arts standards in our plans. This is especially important for elementary teachers since so much of their curriculum is dedicated to reading and writing. Cathy argued that elementary teachers would be hard pressed to join the project if the focus is exclusively on the History standards.
These points were reinforced by Marsha Santos, a middle school social studies teacher from Glide, joining us for the first time. It was decided that Cathy will recruit a team of teachers such as Marsha, from across Douglas County to assist with planning the project. This group will meet for the first time with the rest of the project staff on 1 February at the ESD at 9am for an all day work session.
Dawne pointed out a new set of Oregon standards that will be coming into use in the next year. These are the standards for "Social Science Analysis." These standards require students to submit work samples demonstrating their skills in Framing, Researching, Examining, and Drawing Conclusions about issues arising from social science. If we can use incorporate these standards as central to TAH, teachers will have a strong motivation to participate in the project. There will be video conference on this topic on 25 January. There is information about accessing the video feed online in a previous posting.
The second part if the meeting was given over to discussing the lists of themes that have emerged from the Historians. In this discussion Mark Spence ask about how teachers describe the different strands that make up a year's curriculum. In thinking about this we decided to adopt a new strategy for using historical themes in the project and for guiding the work of the historians in gathering historical resources. This involves creating a chart crossing the time periods, topics, and Common Curricular goals used by teachers on the one hand or organize their classes from week to week, and historical themes on the other. The contents of each cell in the chart will be particular topics and resources that fall within the given time period and which illustrate the given theme. The TAH Teacher Advisory group has been charged to generate the time periods, et al. generally used to organized their curriculum. Once this is available, the historians will generate themes that are generally applicable across most of each curriculum item. More about this in later posts.
The third topic of the meeting is a problem with the scheduling of the summer institute. It turns out that the Douglas County Fair falls during the week of 8 August, which is the first week of the institute as now scheduled. This conflict will likely cause severe problems for participating teachers. We didn't come to any decision about what to do about this.
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If anyone has corrections or additions to these minutes, please email them to me at mhorney@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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