If you haven’t noticed most of the performance assessments for the social studies courses in the TEKS Resource System start with the verb, create. Students get a lot of practice creating during their school years,Continue reading
Month: October 2019
Tough TEKS SEs WG.17B and WH.22B
Teaching about religious institutions in history has its challenges. Most of us were not taught with depth about the intricacies of various religious doctrines in our education preparation. While some see any teaching about religiousContinue reading
Performance Assessments vs. Performance Tasks
After working with Jay McTighe a few years ago we were inspired by what we learned about performance tasks. As many of you know, we started adding performance tasks to the middle school courses first.Continue reading
Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day
For many next Monday is just another day off from school, yet a reflection on the Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day brings to light some important social studies concepts. For one the debate aboutContinue reading
FREE Elementary SS Resources
It was really a pleasure to have so many elementary teachers attend the TEKS Con session about elementary social studies resources this past summer. Obviously, not everyone using the TEKS Resource System gets to attendContinue reading