Best Practices in History/Social Science

Response Sheet #1
Activating Prior Knowledge:

What did the teacher do to activate students’ prior knowledge?

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Response Sheet #2
Activating Prior Knowledge:

How did activating prior knowledge support student learning?

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Activating Prior Knowledge:

What strategies did you see that support instruction for English Learners?
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Response Sheet #4
Activating Prior Knowledge:

What strategies did you see that will work well with your students? How will you
incorporate these strategies into your instruction?
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Vocabulary Development:

What did the teacher do to develop new vocabulary with the students?
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Response Sheet #6
Vocabulary Development:

Why is vocabulary development critical to student learning?

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Response Sheet #7
Vocabulary Development:

What strategies did you see that support instruction for English Learners?
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Response Sheet #8
Vocabulary Development:

What strategies did you see that will work well with your students? How will you
incorporate these strategies into your instruction?
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Guided Practice:

How did the teacher guide student practice?

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Response Sheet #10

Guided Practice:

How did the guided practice support student learning?

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Response Sheet #11

Guided Practice:

What strategies did you see that support instruction for English Learners?
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Response Sheet #12

Guided Practice:

What strategies did you see that will work well with your students? How will you
incorporate these strategies into your instruction?
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Visual Analysis:

How did the teacher incorporate visual analysis into the lesson?
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Response Sheet #14

Visual Analysis:

How did the visual analysis support the information that the students read in the
text and facilitate student learning?
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Response Sheet #15

Visual Analysis:

What strategies did you see that support instruction for English Learners?
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Response Sheet #16

Visual Analysis:

What strategies did you see that will work well with your students? How will you
incorporate these strategies into your instruction?
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Student Writing:

How did the teacher incorporate writing into the lesson?

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Response Sheet #18

Student Writing:

How did the writing component support student learning?

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Response Sheet #19

Student Writing:

What strategies did you see that support instruction for English Learners?
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Response Sheet #20

Student Writing:

What strategies did you see that will work well with your students? How will you
incorporate these strategies into your instruction?
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Student Assessment:

How did this culminating task assess student learning?

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Response Sheet #22

Student Assessment:

What other methods of assessment might have been used?

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Response Sheet #23

Student Assessment:

How did the assessment meet the needs English Learners?

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Response Sheet #24

Student Assessment:

How does this assessment support standards-based instruction?