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.

Here is a great example of students creating a lap book to further their knowledge on Australia. This idea can be adapted for many subjects. Click the picture for a link to the resources.

Choice Boards are a great option to provide for classes where you have a lot of varying interests. This allows for differentiation of low and high performing students.

This project requires students to create a year book of the people in History that they have learned about. Students create a biography page for each person to include what they might think their interests are. Students can create a superlative page where they assign certain historical figures a superlative and writes a short response on why they should have that superlative.

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.

Don't for get to sign up for your summer PD! There are lots of different opportunities for you to further your knowledge. Only few spots available for each session.

Join us this summer via zoom meetings on a June or July book study to further your knowledge.

https://killeen.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=17751 (A History of the World in 6 Glasses)

https://killeen.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=17752 (Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression)

There are three broad ways of grouping students. We can let the students choose who they wish to work with, the teacher can make the groups, or we can group them randomly. This post shares a wealth of ways to organize your students into pairs or groups.

https://oupeltglobalblog.com/2018/11/13/25-ways-grouping-students/

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

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

(February 2023 Newsletter) https://www.smore.com/28pcj

(March 2023 Newsletter) https://www.smore.com/yge4w

(April 2023 Newsletter) https://www.smore.com/rfs32