Announcements
Econ Lessons for Our PLC
Law of Diminishing Returns: Space Aliens
PLC Level Team Training:
Unpackng the Standards Keynote exported as a PDF
CC ELA Standards History:Social Science
Social Science Analysis Skills Standards LetterUS 11.6 Letter
PLC San Diego My notes from the conference October 2015
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CUE Rockstar Teacher Camp Manhattan Beach, 8-3-15 to 8-5-15
School Funding The SSC, Title I, EIA, and LCFF
Google Classroom Basic activities you can do tomorrow
Sample ExamView Test in HTML: APUSH Chapter 33 Quiz
On March 4th, during the faculty meeting, I will give a brief presentation on Kahoot.it. Bring your mobile device and play along with the faculty.
Google Classroom meeting on 2-18-15, 7:30 AM, teachers interested in starting Google Classroom will meet in my room, C-4, during Wednesday’s collaboration.
On Wednesday, 2-11-15, ILT members began a book study: The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders by Thimonthy D. Kanold.
Demo Days are back at Los Amigos. They are scheduled for March 9th and 10th. ILT members and volunteers will demonstrate lessons based on Thinking Through Quality Questioning by Jackie Walsh and Beth Sattes. Please stop by my room, C-4, and observe my lesson periods 1-5.
Orange County CUE held its annual Techfest on Saturday, 1-31-15 at Serra Catholic School
in Rancho Santa Margarita. It was great success with lots of innovative ideas.
Instructional Strategy Screencasts and Slide Presentations Created by William Hawley
Interactive Notebook Screencast
Interactive Notebook PowerPoint
Cornell Notes Screencast
Cornell System of Notes PowerPoint
Checks for Understanding Slide Presentation in PDF
Thesis Statement Screencast
Thesis Statement Slide Presentation in PDF
Essay Structure Screencast
Essay Structure Slide Presentation in PDF
FRQs and DBQs Screencast
FRQs and DBQs Slide Presentation in PDF
World Cafe Slide presentation in PDF
Intelligent Eye Slide Presentation in PDF, “Learning to Think by Looking at Art”
Learning Goals Slide Presentation in PDF
Metaphor and Analogy Slide Presentation in PDF
Flipped Classroom Screencast
Traning 10-15-14 Slide presentation in PDF, Backward Planning from a Writing Rubric, a training for the social science department
Video Clips I have used in Staff/Department Training
Why We Need Common Core: I Choose C.
First_Follower Leadership: Lessons_from_the Dancing_Guy
Useful PDFs
Social Science Training Session, 2-11-15 How to get started with kahoot.it and Google Classroom
Guidelines for the Interactive Notebook
Kit Supplies needed to create an interactive notebook
LAHS Close Reading Guide A joint English/social science department creation
World Café Flyer
wc-guidelines-mini Activities Menu for Wold Cafe
Expectations for Student Teachers by William Hawley
Direct Instruction Site training developed by William Hawley
Combining Instructional Strategies District in-service given by William Hawley
Intelligent Eye (Learning to Think by Looking at Art) Site training developed by William Hawley based on the book
CUE 2014 Notes CUE Conference Palm Springs, CA.
LEQ Rubric Writing Rubric
Rubric for DBQ Writing Rubric
Today’s Specials Flipped Classroom Informational Poster
Learning Walk Observation Tool
Thinking Maps not in A Language for Learning
CCOT Thinking Map by William Hawley
Periodization Thinking Map by William Hawley
Agree Disagree Including opposing views in writing
Pyramid Prioritize
FDR Pyramid Prioritize the New Deal
Dam A Dam Metaphor for the 1st New Deal
SOLO Squares (A demonstration lesson for visiting teachers, Los Amigos Demo Days 2014)
SOLO Squares Lesson Plan by William Hawley
SOLO Squares handout
SOLO Squares II handout
Students teams create large solo squares as part of a text-based lesson
Handouts I created after reading Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners
Making Thinking Visible Overview/Notes
See-Think-Wonder Handout
321 Handout
CSI Handout
CSQ Handout
Great Books that Influenced My Teaching
Pauk, Water. Essential Study Strategies. Princeton, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 2000
Marchland-Martella, Nancy E., et al. Introduction to Direct Instruction. Boston: Pearson Education. 2004.
Engelmann, Siegfried. Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System. Eugene, OR: ADI Press, 2007
Lobdell, Jim, and Sherry Owens Bert Bower. Bring Learning Alive! The TCI Approach for Middle and High School Social Studies. United States: Teacher’s Curriculum Institute, 2005.
Bergmann, Jonathan, and Aaron Sams. Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. United States: International Society For Technology In Education (ISTE), 2012.
Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. United States: Basic Books, 1984.
Gardner, Howard. Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century. United States: Basic Books, 2000.
Perkins, David. The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art: 1st ed. United States: Getty Education Institute for the Arts, 1994.
Stigler, James, and James Hiebert. The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World’s Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom. New York : Free Press, 1999.
Keenan, Diane. Economics Live. United States: McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing, 1999.
Phillips, Kevin. Politics of Rich and Poor. United States: HarperCollins, 1991.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States. United States: Seven Stories Press, 2004.
Arnove, Anthony, and Howard Zinn. Voices of a People’s History of the United States. United States: Seven Stories Press,U.S., 2004.
Fiege, Mark. The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. United States: Weyerhaeuser Books, 2012.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. United States: New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.
Brown, Juanita et al. The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005.
Bache, Christopher. The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness. United States: State University of New York Press, 2008.
Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2011.
Safoks, Mitchell, and Mitchell Sakofs. Into the Classroom: The Outward Bound Approach to Teaching and Learning. United States: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996
DuFour, Richard, Rebecca DuFour, and Robert Eaker. Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work. 2nd ed. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press, 2010.