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Essex County Vocational & Technical Schools

Social Studies Department Meeting

September 17, 2014

Teacher Survival Kit

Keep Calm and Carry on...

Miscellaneous

Welcome Back Teachers

Diagnostic Assessments

Social Studies Dept.

Vision and Goals

Grab a partner and discuss the following and write your responses on one post-it note for each..

1. What are your goals for the department?

2. What are your goals for your students?

3. What does student success look like?

Administered this week

  • Data and scantrons due to Ms. Smith by Thursday, Sept. 25
  • Spreadsheet will be emailed out on Monday.
  • Feedback should consider strengths and weaknesses
  • Evaluations and Walkthroughs
  • Book Inventory per building
  • Hispanic Heritage Month Activity or Lesson-collaborate
  • AP US History-approval, books

Differentiation

  • Introductions

  • Welcome to our new staff members:
  • Lynley Grezlak
  • Gerald Kollath
  • James Fleming

James Popham suggests that assessment is a "tool used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or by students to adjust their current learning tactics” (6).

ELL Resources

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

http://www.elcivics.com

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/004/740/NYU_PTE_SocialStudies_for_ELLS_Oct2009.pdf

  • http://www.udlcenter.org/implementation/examples

What is EdConnect?

EdConnect is an online platform developed by the NJDOE that provides educators with a suite of tools in lesson planning, assessments and data analysis creation and sharing.

EdConnect

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https://edconnectnj.schoolnet.com/

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