- Rosemead HS
- Department Goals
Social Science Department
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Goals:
- Common lesson planning: (essential questions, writing prompts, research, projects, tests, etc.) in each grade level. Noted on Curriculum Maps (living, working document, updated as the year progresses):
- Update Social Science Model Google Classrooms with common lessons, assessments, and projects in accordance to the curriculum maps.
- Focus curriculum around these four skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Research (CAASPP Claims).
- Administer one course-level common assessment (FIAB) each semester:
US History: Research: Evaluate Information and Sources (Fall), Research: Analyze and Integrate Information (Spring)
World History: Language and Vocabulary Use (Fall), Research: Use Evidence (Spring)
Ethnic Studies: Listen/Interpret (one semester) - Support RHS and its students outside of the classroom
- Be Awesome
Plan of Action:
- Delegate 3 department late starts per semester to serve as a Course Lead meeting. Review and compare assessments and data. Continue to update team drive with a shared curriculum. Progress measured with a common assignment per unit.
- Create assessment windows and administer common assessments, data reflect at Staff PD sessions
- Students in World and US History will use their Essay Organizer and write a minimum of 1 structured paragraph to answer an essential question per unit.
- Attend one extracurricular activity per semester