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Critical Teaching Strategies

Alix's Critical Teaching Strategies: History

1. Analyzing historical documents
-ex: pictures, primary sources, secondary sources

2. Taking on multiple perspectives of historical events
-ex: slave vs. slave owners

3. Determining facts in history vs. perspectives influenced by experiences/beliefs

4. Note taking
-ex: PowerPoint, articles, books

5. Group work
-ex: listening to peers’ ideas, development collective assessments, dividing up labor in projects equally

The Boston Massacre UbD Stage 1

Alix Powell
The Boston Massacre
July 13, 2011

The Boston Massacre UbD

Summary of Curricular Context: (consider including what prior knowledge students might need for this lesson)
*events that happened prior to the Boston Massacre (the Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Quartering Act,and Townshend Act)
*who were the colonists?
*How was Great Britain related to the colonists (what type of relationship did they have?)
*what does the word “tension” mean?

Standard / Objectives for Unit or Lesson: (Illinois and, or ISTE NETS)
Illinois State Standards:
-16.A.3c Identify the differences between historical fact and interpretation. -16.B.2a (US) Describe how the European colonies in North America developed politically.
-16.B.2b (US) Identify major causes of the American Revolution and describe the con¬sequences of the Revolution through the early national period, including t he roles of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
-18.A.2 Explain ways in which language, stories, folk tales, music, media and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture.

Objectives:
*Students will be able to distinguish between facts about the American Revolution versus propaganda and media

Lesson Goal:
-Students will understand causes that lead up to the American Revolution
(the Boston Massacre)


Stage 1 Enduring Understandings What are the overarching enduring understandings for the unit/lesson? (big ideas that transcend the unit)
1. Because of the Boston Massacre (cause), the tensions between colonists and Great Britain increased (effect).
2. Media and propaganda influence the way we perceive the world and may construe our beliefs.
3. The tensions that continued to grow because of events such as the Boston Massacre (cause) eventually will lead to the American Revolution (effect).


Essential Questions What are the essential questions you can ask to guide inquiry?
1.What was the Boston Massacre? What caused the Boston Massacre and what was the result of it?
2.How did media affect perspectives on the road towards the American Revolution? How do different types of media affect our own everyday lives and perspectives?
3.Overarching- How did this further tensions between the colonists and Great Britain?

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge
-The Boston Massacre affected relations between colonists and Great Britain
-Paul Revere’s picture “Engraving of the Boston Massacre” inaccurately depicted history
-Actions/events have causes and eventually lead to other events which we call results or effects
-similar to science:
For every action there is an equal or opposite reaction

Skills
-define tensions
-analyze media/propaganda (Paul Revere’s picture)
-read
-take notes from PowerPoint

Xtranormal Video

Example of Bad Teaching For Dr. Price's Class

Lesson Plan: Voices of the American Revolution: Who supported the war and who was against it?

Here is the link to my Google Document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MYK3K3NjyXk4NmKrNatkpCawDHxdK_PP35SCcXPeaAI/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CP2S6ZcD

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Alix's Philosophy of Education

Education is a very complex entity; however it has one very important component which is that students and their academic and social growth come first. As teachers, it is important that we set the goals high and guide students to achieve them. Students should also have the opportunity to self assess themselves. They should monitor their own goals and progress throughout their educational experiences.

A classroom is a community of learners including the teacher and everyone in it must be willing to learn from each other. It is essential that the teacher promotes respect within the community. Collaboration among students as well as the teacher will help create this type of learning environment. Another important part of education is the support that students receive from parents, family, friends, and community members. Students should be supported in and out of the classroom and part of a teacher’s responsibility is to ensure that there is open communication with the people outside of the classroom.

Teachers must also be able to assess students’ individual needs and interests. In doing so, students should be given chances to express their own feelings, experiences, and perspectives in a way that shows the teacher what knowledge they have gained. Children are the future and it is up to us to guide their path and prepare them to succeed in it.

My 1st Blog

I am sitting in tech class and am pretty excited that it's Friday! Although this has been a long week, I have definitely learned so much about myself and my teaching skills.