Hello, I am Teaven Barnum the District Instructional Specialist for Secondary Social Studies. I'm excited to help you in any way that you need. You can reach me at teaven.barnum@killeenisd.org, text at 254-446-2873 or call my desk phone at 254-336-0253.

Description: Student responds to a two-part question where Parts A and B are scored separately. In many cases, Part B asks students to give evidence or explain their thinking for their answer to Part A.

Point value: These questions can be worth a maximum of 2 points with the possibility of receiving 1 point for a partially correct response.

Social studies tests that may include these questions: Grade 8 and EOC

Suggestions/Classroom Connections

Multipart questions are two part questions where the answer for the second part is dependent on your answer provided for the first part. These questions are very similar to hot text questions in the fact that they are looking for justifications as to why the initial answer was selected. One resource that I recommend for this is Stanford History Education Group. The 'Reading Like a Historian' history lessons help students learn how to make historical claims backed by documentary (primary and secondary source) evidence. Access to the fully provided lessons is free with a login. Materials are available for US History and World History.

➡️ Consider how often you ask students to explain why. Can they explain what evidence led them to their answer?

Description: Student can select more than one correct answer from a set of possible answers. Student will not be allowed to select more than the specified number of correct answers asked for within an individual question.

Point value: These questions can be worth a maximum of 2 points with the possibility of receiving 1 point for a partially correct response.

Social studies tests that may include these questions: Grade 8 and EOC

When I look at multiselect questions it reminds me of multiple choice on steroids. One, make sure students pay attention to the fact that the test will indicate how many answers should be selected. Two, reading carefully will be important for this question. Encourage students that reading the question aloud often helps the brain think through the answer choices. Students will receive credit for a partially correct answer. These questions will often use Why or Which as their stems, indicating more than one correct response. It is important through our instruction to indicate when there are multiple factors impacting a decision or event.

Please make sure that if you have not already taken the practice test that you do so. This will help give you the perspective the students will have. The test can be found at www.texasassessment.gov

This website is a resource for you to create new question item types. This is the same system that STAAR questions are built from. The goal is to have a work group in the system for 6th, 7th, 8th, and 11th (U.S.) grades where teachers can contribute questions to a bank that everyone can pull from. The team leads were trained on how to login and create new items. You can also go to www.texasassessment.gov and click on the LMS (Learning Management System) tab to access online modules. From there you will click the course link and that will bring you to a place where you can learn about the website at your own pace. I will post a picture of the button you are supposed to click. Mrs. McClish also created an easy to follow video on how to create, share and publish items. Multi-Select Question - TFAR.mp4

Summer has also created a step through guide on how to create, share and publish items. Links to those documents provided below.

In an effort to reduce cheating amongst students and campuses on the Common Unit Assessments, we will not enable students to view their correct and incorrect responses in Eduphoria. This includes during bridge week, since not all campuses test at the exact same time.

However, we recognize that teachers may like to review the test questions with students as part of their bridge week protocols so that students may examine the questions they missed without the correct answer displayed. If this is something you would like to do, you can follow the directions included in the attachment below to print student test summary reports and display questions and answer choices for your students/class to examine or discuss.

As you remember, we had Lowman Education come out and present. While we loved their free resources of the frequency charts and the framework, I heard a resounding desire from all of you to purchase more. When looking at what product could give us the biggest bang for our buck, I decided that the warm-ups and the assignments would be the best decision. These products were purchased and a big shout out to Dr. Buckley for pushing it through!

Who can use the products?

​Lowman only has their products available for 6th, 7th, 8th and 11th (U.S.) grades.

​How do we accesses the products?

Go to LOWMANEDUCATION.COM

CLICK ACCESS PRODUCTS

CREATE ACCOUNT (claim campus)

LOGIN WITH EMAIL AND PASSWORD

DOWNLOAD ANY ITEMS LABELED "OPEN"

​Now most of you will already have a login because you created one during Job-alike.

​Why should I use the product?

Lowman has created these warmups and assignments based off the frequency of tested TEKS. They also have new question item types. However, these resources are not interactive. For example, students would not actually drag and drop an item on the drag and drop questions. These products are available to you through word and PDF, so they do not have interactive quality. However, they do explicitly explain to the student what question type it is. If you would like to make them interactive, you could take those questions and plug them into Schoology or TFAR. I believe the purpose is the same because we want to focus on the skill of how these new question types are tested.

If you have any questions please let me know.

The history you hear depends on who is telling the story. History is about perspective and point of view. Join us for all four sessions or sign up individually as we look at digital resources for uncovering forgotten history. Each session will feature a different topic.

Sessions include:

February 21 - Trail of Tears and Cherokee Culture in the 21st century

( https://txr10.escworks.net/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=2649349)

April 11 - Pullman Car Museum

**ESC Region 12 teachers may register for the Forgotten Voices in History sessions HERE.

Presented by the National Museum of the Pacific War

Grades: 5-11

Cost: FREE

Date: February 24

Time: 10:00 a.m. CST

Celebrate Black History Month by joining the National Museum of the Pacific War and the National Museum of the Marine Corps as they recognize the struggles and contributions of some of the estimated one million African Americans that helped the United States achieve victory in WWII. Participants will hear about individuals and groups such as Dorie Miller, U.S. Major Charity Adams, the Montford Point Marines, the Tuskegee Airmen, and more.

Register at Connect2Texas.net

Concept Circles

• Developing Vocabulary
• Identifying Key Ideas & Details
• Summarizing

1. Select a Discovery Education video, audio, or text related to your unit of study. Identify four concept-related vocabulary terms for the lesson.

2. Provide students with a copy of the graphic organizer. Share the four vocabulary terms with students and have them write a different term in each inner ring of the circle.

3. Explain that students will use the Discovery Education media to define the vocabulary terms and, ultimately, determine the concept that connects each of the terms.

4. Engage in vocabulary development discussions to ensure that students have a foundational understanding of the terms.

5. Have students view the media, pausing occasionally for students to add notes to the outer rings of the vocabulary terms.

6. Ask students to work with a partner to discuss word meanings and commonalities among the vocabulary. Together, the pair should come up with a concept and write it in the center ring.

7. Have students share their concept connections between the words, supporting their thinking with text-based evidence.

If you are looking for fresh, innovative ideas to use within your history classrooms, look no further than 'The Week That Was In 505'. Teacher Adam Moler outlines his lessons from the week prior and provides great insights on tools and techniques that are working for him and can be adjusted to fit most history classrooms. Here's this week's blog post: https://molersmusings.wordpress.com/

AI just stormed into the classroom with the emergence of ChatGPT. How do we teach now that it exists? How can we use it? Here are some ideas. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot. Drawing on tons and tons of data and massive processing power, it uses GPT3 technology to let users talk to the AI about practically anything. https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai/

Did you know??

Retro Report and Pear Deck have partnered to help teachers give historical context to today’s most important stories. With these ready-to-teach lessons students learn how journalism and storytelling allows us to better understand the lessons of history and apply them to today’s world.

Kennedy and the Cold War: Berlin to Cuba and Beyond

Join Retro Report and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza for Kennedy and the Cold War: Berlin to Cuba and Beyond. This free educator webinar will feature films, lessons and resources. A new Retro Report film about the Cuban Missile Crisis will be screened, and we will share resources for approaching the global Cold War.

When: Tuesday, Feb. 28 from 7-8 p.m. ET.
Register today: bit.ly/RR-ColdWarWebinar
Questions? Reach out to Director of Education David Olson (dolson@retroreport.com).

Also, don't forget to sign up for Retro Report's weekly newsletter to stay in the know about other great resources and upcoming events! 🔗 https://sparklp.co/512e071c/

A Schoology course has been created to help spiral high frequency TEKS and concepts to our 8th grade students. There will be one lesson a week posted in Schoology to be delivered through the intervention period. The goal is for the lesson to last no longer than 20 minutes and be completed without the need of a content expert. If you are interested in helping contribute to this effort, please contact me for more information.

Congratulations to our very own Keina Cook at KHS for getting some very well deserved recognition!

(October 2022 Newsletter) https://www.smore.com/5xkvg

(November 2022 Newsletter) https://www.smore.com/akyd6