In California the law talked re so many minutes a week per month. So I always taught social studies for two weeks, then science for two weeks. In order to give more depth! Then always found ways to itnegrate that ss and science into my language arts. I do realize that HM and OC (and other basals) control language arts many places but if you sor tout their themes, and then look at your sss and science themes you can often "arrange" overlaps. That's what we did witht he culturally relevant pedagogy we created for Native American schools. I think it is possible to subvert the current paradigm at least some of the time! Let me know if you'd like to see what we did.
sally On 3/31/07 5:30 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 3/30/2007 9:56:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example, in NYC the 3rd grade S.S. > curriculum calls for the study of communities around the world. Our SS > textbooks (bought recently) are way offline in discussing communities WITHIN > the US, NOT the world. It is because of this that I DO NOT teach from this > textbook. Rather I look for whatever books I can on the country we are > studying and teach from there (the basics, geography, history, people, > they¹re culture, etc.) I only have an allotted time designated ³Science² and > ³Social Studies² 2 hours COMBINED per week (two 30-min sessions each). > And somy question is.how can I HAVE such a powerful science/social > studies unit with such little time and restrictions as to what and when I > can TEACH within that subject? I MUST make those 2 sessions on each subject > VERY powerful to be able to have the kind of outcome that I want and that I > see you¹re achieving with your kids! Hi Maria, I teach in NYC. We are > not a Reading First school so I am not totally familiar with your > restrictions. Are you able to double up your sessions? Instead of having > them on separate days in the week, can you combine them into one day? That > would lengthen the amount of time spent in sessions enabling you t o work > through cooperative learning activities. Can you tell us a little more > about how these restrictions are monitored. Laura > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Mosaic > mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your > membership please go > to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. S > earch the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
