Protected: Sample Curriculum Map
Week 2 Celebrations & Summary
Wow! This week presented a big task and shifts in thinking, and you have faced them head on with gusto and fortitude! It is so wonderful to see the way your thinking around the Standards is shaping your curriculum map. Thank you for engaging in this deep thinking. You are creating solid foundations for your course design.
New social studies courses available!
IUHS has recently opened several new social studies courses that will count as elective credits. They include:
- Indiana Studies
- Ethnic Studies
- Civics
These are one-semester courses and you can find out more about them by visiting the IUHS course catalog: https://expand.iu.edu/browse/iuhs
To see only the Social Studies courses in the catalog, go to: https://expand.iu.edu/browse/iuhs/socialstudies
Virtual College Fair!
Are you thinking about going to college? Indiana University is holding its first Virtual College Fair this Thursday, February 25, 2021 from 4:30-7:00p EST! Register here to explore what IU has to offer across its campuses!
Wherever you are in your studies, it is never too early to begin exploring what life might look like after high school. We encourage all IU High School students to attend this Virtual College Fair!
Dr. Itow Speaks on Whole-School Wellness
Our Principal recorded an episode on the Wellness for Educators Podcast!
Click here to listen to Dr. Rebecca Itow and Dr. Kathryn Kennedy discuss issues around wellness for students, families, staff, and faculty in schools!
Be sure to also check out other Wellness for Educators Podcast episodes and the to learn more about keeping educators healthy so that we can serve our students with vibrancy and excitement.
Educational Eavesdropping: What To Do When Business As Usual Doesn’t Work: Rethinking Teaching Strategies In Response To The Pandemic
Educational Eavesdropping episodes offer webinar-style resources, guidance, and food for thought from experts in the field. Listen in on conversations about relevant topics between practitioners, researchers, and community members.
This presentation is sponsored by Indiana University’s Office of School Partnerships and IU High School.
In this episode of Educational Eavesdropping, David Pace, Emeritus Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington teaches us to Decode our Disciplines.
In the midst of a pandemic, teachers are being asked to make unprecedented changes to the way that they teach – changes that involve far more than the mastery of new technologies. In most situations, it will be impossible in the new environment to cover everything that was included in traditional courses. Teachers will need a strategic framework for deciding what is most essential to teach to their students and for creating the most effective environment for deep learning.
The Decoding the Disciplines approach to increasing student learning can provide such a framework. Created on the IU Bloomington campus in the late 1990s, this approach is now helping teachers increase student learning in at least fifteen countries. It begins by focusing attention on the most serious bottlenecks to learning in particular courses and then systematically explores what students need to be able to do get past those obstacles to success.
Participants in this webinar will be introduced to the decoding process and will have hands-on experience in identifying crucial bottlenecks to learning in their courses and in making explicit the steps that students must master to overcome these difficulties. The session will be led by David Pace, professor emeritus of the IU Bloomington History Department and co-creator of Decoding the Disciplines. Professor Pace has almost fifty years of teaching experience and is a recipient of the American Historical Association’s Eugene Asher Award for teaching excellence.
Those who are new to this approach can find more information at http://decodingthedisciplines.org/.
Please watch the video and then join the conversation below!
Educational Eavesdropping: Experiences and Expectations in Online Learning: How To Prepare Students, Families, And Ourselves for Learning in a Digital Space
Educational Eavesdropping episodes offer webinar-style resources, guidance, and food for thought from experts in the field. Listen in on conversations about relevant topics between practitioners, researchers, and community members.
This presentation is sponsored by Indiana University’s Office of School Partnerships and IU High School.
In this episode of Educational Eavesdropping, Rebecca Itow, IU High School Principal and Adjunct Professor in the School of Education at IU Bloomington facilitates an overview and discussion of what to expect in an online course setting and why learning in digital environments feels so foreign. We will examine four major areas of concern: (a) Is online learning as valuable as brick and mortar learning?; (b) How can teachers, students, and families build meaningful educational relationships and support systems if they cannot see each other?; (c) How do we know students are learning?; and (d) What does learning look like online and how does this differ from our conceptions of brick-and-mortar learning environments?
Please watch the video and then join the conversation below!
Educational Eavesdropping: Engaging Parents in Supporting Virtual Instruction
Educational Eavesdropping episodes offer webinar-style resources, guidance, and food for thought from experts in the field. Listen in on conversations about relevant topics between practitioners, researchers, and community members.
This presentation is sponsored by Indiana University’s Office of School Partnerships and IU High School.
This episode of Educational Eavesdropping features Tommy Renfro, Lecturer in the School of Education at IU Bloomington. Tommy offers strategies to equip teachers with skills to help parents understand that partnerships with the teacher and school leads to success. I will cover communication with parents, techniques for gathering information before making an opinion/criticism, community building activities, and autonomy and belonging.
Please watch the video and then join the conversation below!
Screenside Chat: Transitioning to Online Teaching with Tools We Already Possess
Screenside Chats feature online practitioners as they discuss their experiences, strategies, and tools building and interacting in pedagogically sound online learning environments.
In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, discusses how teachers can use their existing experiences, expertise, and tools to transition from brick-and-mortar to online teaching.