November 4, 2010

How can you use the following resources to help your students develop and carry out their action plan?

• Learn and Serve Packet
• Centers in Lesson 5
• OCON Away website

The great flood learning experience in the purpose of goverment lesson will be really interesting for the children and myself. I have only lived here for a couple of years, so I will be learning with the children.

September 29, 2010

Which lesson are you looking forward to teaching and why?

The Bridge to Civility: Empathy, Ethics, and Service

How do you see the vision in the article come to fruition in the classroom through the OCON Curriculum? Use some specific examples from some of the lessons you reviewed the past few days.

Follow Up Day 1 - July 28, 2010

The role of teacher is crucial to empowering students. Describe some of the effects you believe the OCON Curriculum will have in helping students address social justice.

OCON Training Day 4

We have covered a lot of material in the past four days! Today we spent the morning looking at formative and summative assessment strategies embedded throughout the curriculum and continued our conversation on sensitivity issues.


Please respond to the following:

1. How can the seven strategies of Assessment for Learning enhance student understanding of social studies?

2. Which civic disposition(s) do you think will be useful in addressing sensitivity issues in your classroom?

Also, if you need to revisit the Day 3 comments please do so.

OCON Traiing Day 3

Today we discussed the Learn-and-serve component of OCON.
What are your first thoughts about the Learn-and-serve component of OCON?

We also discussed sensitivity issues that may come up during the year.
What is the primary insight that you gained from looking at the Comprehensive School Survey data?

OCON Training Day 2

Today we discussed features of a lesson plan, strategies used in OCON lessons, and lesson feedback. Choose one of the following to respond to.

1. Which strategy are you most excited about using? Why? Which strategies do you have more questions about? What are some strategies you have used effectively in your social studies classroom?

2. What do you think about the Feedback Form? Do you think you will use it? Why or why not? Do you think it will be easy to complete? What suggestions do you have for improving?

OCON Training Day 1

Which civic disposition do you think will be the easiest and which will be the hardest to teach to kids? Explain your choices.