EL Civics Curriculum - Fairfax County, VA Introduction This EL/civics curriculum espouses learner self an instructor mightwant to preteach or emphasize to share or to engage in activities that may be http://www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/ELCivics/overview.htm
Extractions: Curriculum Overview Introduction This EL/Civics curriculum espouses learner self-expression, peer interaction, community awareness and participation, personal research, and problem-solving. It represents an attempt to engage the adult ESOL learner in personal, meaningful English literacy instruction using a non-traditional methodology. As adult educators, we understand that adult learners' individual needs are diverse. To help meet these diverse needs, this curriculum gives instructors a flexible, integrated-skill format that they can use and adapt. As they do so, they will build a solid foundation that allows learners to take an active, responsible role in their own learning. While created for use in high intermediate and advanced ESOL and adult high school classes, the lessons vary according to their academic rigor and life skills transferability. Each instructor should adapt the lessons to the level and prior knowledge of their learners. In addition, the instructor should engage in meaningful, on-going needs assessment discussions with the learners in order to select lessons or units to study. These on-going needs assessments should drive the use of this curriculum. This curriculum is not intended to be used rigidly as a textbook. If the learners express the desire to proceed in an alternate direction to what is listed in the curriculum, the instructor should be responsive to the learners' expressed needs. The topics and activities have been designed to begin the discussion and to provide the learners with the words and technology to meet their own personal and family needs once the class has ended. This curriculum is a cornerstone for future learner development and personal growth.
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American History And Civics Education Act Of 2003 direction of the primary professor, the core teachers shall teach the workshop civicsmay belong, that sponsors American history and civics activities for such http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr1078.html
Extractions: To establish academies for teachers and students of American history and civics and a national alliance of teachers of American history and civics, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. WICKER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To establish academies for teachers and students of American history and civics and a national alliance of teachers of American history and civics, and for other purposes. In this Act: (1) AMERICAN HISTORY AND CIVICS- The term `American history and civics' means the key events, key persons, key ideas, and key documents that shaped the institutions and democratic heritage of the United States. (2) CHAIRPERSON- The term `Chairperson' means the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Lesson Plans from among these topics Behavioral/Social Studies, civics, Economics, Geography thissite offers lessons,quizzes, and activities to teach secondary students http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
Extractions: Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange Elementary School (K-5). 50 lesson plans for primary grade students. Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange Intermediate School (6-8). 80 lesson plans appropriate for grades 6-8. Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange High School (9-12). 95 lesson plans suitable for the high school level. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange Elementary School (K-5). 36 miscellaneous lesson plans for students in grades k-5. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange Intermediate School (6-8). 25 miscellaneous lesson plans for the middle school. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange High School (9-12). 14 miscellaneous lesson plans for the 9-12 grades. Afghanistan:Land in Crisis. Afghanistan: Land in Crisis, presented by National Geograpic.Com., features news, background, online activities, teachers' guides, lesson plans, a regularly updated interactive map, photos, and a message board. Africa. Based on a PBS broadcast, the site includes: Africa for Kids where Fimi, a youngster from Nigeria serves as the guide to a variety of fun activities for elementary level students; Photoscope where older students can look at contemporary Africa in five photo essays; and Africa Challenge where students can show how much they know by playing a game. Also featured is Teacher Tools with four units on Africa.
Framework And Standards National Standards for History, Economics, civics, and Geography. These standardsoften have useful suggested lesson activities to teach a particular topic. http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/sub_standards/nat_stand_his_econ_civ_geo.html
Extractions: During the last 15 years, leaders in each field of study within history-social science have developed suggested national standards. These standards often have useful suggested lesson activities to teach a particular topic. These may serve as excellent resources for district and school standards and assessment committees as they develop a local course of study.
Extractions: Who is the first president of the United States? How many stars does the U.S. flag have? Do these questions sound familiar? You're right! They are among the 100 questions asked of those seeking U.S. citizenship. And, they are the foundation of any citizenship class. But what happens after someone becomes a citizen? English Language Civics: An Introduction http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/eff.html E. L. Civics education acknowledges each learner's multiple roles (i.e. family member, worker, and community member/citizen) and supports opportunities for learners to explore all possibilities of living the U.S. experience. In tandem with literacy education, therefore, E. L. Civics education focuses on learners becoming fully participating citizens, community members, and leaders so that they may also become empowered parents, family members, and workers.
LR/RI.ELCivics information is critical to those who teach and facilitate a threeyear demonstrationproject, which integrates EL-civics learning activities into its http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/elcivics.html
Extractions: From Indivisible: Introduction to interpreting photographs Some of the resources on this page also appear on LR/RI's advocacy and ESOL pages. They are gathered here to facilitate locating resources related to EL Civics learning and teaching Office of Vocational and Adult Education EL Civics homepage and its disappeared [http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/AdultEd/ELCIVICS/elcivqa.html] question and answer page covers federal expectations of EL Civics funding English Literacy/Civics resources from Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center English Literacy and Civics Education for Adult Learners Special Policy Update, National Institute for Literacy, August, 2001 New Resource Writings by Teachers from the New England Citizenship Project (NECP) "The work of the teachers who participated in the New England Citizenship Project [includes] ... descriptions of lessons from citizenship classes around the region. The goal of the project was to help teachers expand citizenship instruction beyond the 100 questions on the INS test. However, many of these lesson ideas would work in other teaching contexts that cover civics and civic participation. Many thanks to Andy Nash for leading this project, and to Kristin Salsberry, who put these writings on the web." - Silja Kallenbach Colorado Department of Education English Literacy and Civics Education ; compendium of many resources listed here, as well as instructional activities and resource packets.
American Political Science Association (APSA) activities that identify additional resources for the teaching of or national standardsfor education in civics; for preparing teachers to teach about Congress http://www.apsanet.org/CENnet/michel.cfm
Extractions: The Dirksen Congressional Center recently announced the third year of a grants program to help teachers, curriculum developers, and others improve the quality of civics instruction, with priority on the role of Congress in our federal government. Areas of interest include designing lesson plans, creating student activities, and applying instructional technology in the classroom. Highlights Teachers and teacher-student teams eligible Who is qualified to apply? Teachers (4th through 12th grade), community and junior college faculty, and college and university faculty teacher-led student teams, and individual curriculum. Priority given to the following disciplines: political science, government, social science, history, and education. Institutions and organizations are not eligible. What projects qualify for consideration?
NPR : Civics Lessons Beyond The Classroom the Classroom Volunteering May Not teach Students About Part 3 civics LessonsBeyond the Classroom. 49% see volunteering for community activities as most http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=905341
TPWD Project WILD 40 activities and the new Science and civics Sustaining Wildlife concepts into classroomcurriculum, and each activity is designed to teach one or http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/edu/enved/wildprog.htm
Lesson Plan Resources Lesson Plans Lessons in civics for upper of Internet resourceslesson plans, activities,curriculum resources of Internet resources and teach standard concepts http://www.wccusd.k12.ca.us/dk/lesson.htm
Extractions: Lesson Plans Access Excellence Activities Exchange An archive of the favorite classroom activities submitted by high school biology and life sciences teachers participating in the Access Excellence program. Activity Search by Houghton Mifflin Lesson plans and activities searchable by curricular area and grade level. African American Lesson Plans These files are designed to help K-12 teachers incorporate African topics in their classrooms. Air Quality Lesson Plans The information contained on these pages is designed to provide educators who teach kindergarten through 12th grade with the background, activities and resources to teach the subject of air quality in the classroom. The information is presented in three levels: Lesson plans, Information and Activities, and Data Files. AskERIC Lesson Plans A searchable collection of lesson plans, quite extensive and a good place to start. Big Sky Lessons (Several Subject Areas) The lesson plans in these directories were provided by Big Sky Telegraph in conjunction with the Columbia Education Center. Each subdirectory contains: a readme file describing each of the lesson plans, individual text files containing a lesson plan, and a zip file containing all the lesson plans in binary zip compressed form.
Civics Online - [Re]Envisioning The Democratic Community Resources http//www.civnet.org/resoures/teach.htm This and resources related toK-12 civics education intriguing history of New York, do activities to learn http://www.civics-online.org/teachers/teacherresources.cfm
Extractions: Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Internment of San Francisco Japanese - Museum of the City of San Francisco - http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
Frontline: Teacher Center: Teachers Guide: Roots Of Terrorism| PBS civics, geography, global studies/world history, language arts, thinking and reasoningskills, and US history. Further, the nine diverse classroom activities http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/terror/
Extractions: In the wake of Sept. 11, FRONTLINE produced a series of documentaries , all of which dealt with the roots of terrorism and the complex evolution of U.S. policy and Islamic fundamentalism. Recognizing that students and teachers are now confronted with an ever-changing and ever-challenging global picture, FRONTLINE developed this guide to help teachers use the programs to meet a variety of instructional needs and to help students explore those intricate issues. This guide is recommended for students in grades 9-12 and beyond. It can be used in any or all of the following subject areas: civics, geography, global studies/world history, language arts, thinking and reasoning skills, and U.S. history. Further, the nine diverse classroom activities can be used with any of the FRONTLINE programs, except where noted. Any activities related to the causes and consequences of terrorism can raise deep-seated emotions. Before you and your students engage in such activities, you may want to set ground rules for respectful discussion. In addition, to help students avoid slipping into restrictive "us vs. them" thinking, especially as they explore life in unfamiliar countries, you may want to suggest opening questions for their inquiry. For example, rather than looking for what is different, what they agree with or feel comfortable with, or what they like, encourage students to begin their investigations with the question, "What can I learn?" Also, be sure that students carefully evaluate sources to see which ones are crafted by observers from
ESL Links Lessons plans/activities from college students and profs that teach ESL. NCLE EL/civicsactivities for Adults http//www.cal.org/ncle/civics/ ESL/civics songs http://it.mid-del.net/esl.html
Extractions: ESL Sites Selected for the purpose of enhancing the ESL Program and Adult Learning Program of Mid Del Schools (Sites included here may contain advertisement) Mid Del Schools is not responsibile for content listed external servers.) Last updated, August 19, 2002 A-G H-Q R-Z Activities for ESL Students
BRIDGE & CIVICS F-2-F Professional Development Program activities such as these help young people recognize that there are multiple perspectivesand as I know the answers of the world and will teach them, says http://www.iearnlb.org/bridge/f2f/reading/makingconnections.html
Extractions: "A global perspective is a little like a virusyou have to catch it," jokes Angene Wilson. "You can't get rid oaf it," but that's not necessarily a bad thing, says this professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Kentucky. Teachers and students around the world have been bitten by the global education bug, but they aren't complaining. Instead, they are learning about themselves, their communities, and their culturesand how these connect to other people, communities, and cultures around the world and throughout history. Discovering these connections is important, says Wilson, simply because "we live in the world." Events in the United States affect other parts of the world, and events in other countries have an impact on the United States. "We need to teach what the reality is," says James Becker, senior consultant at the Social Studies Development Center at Indiana University. "Education must respond to whatever conditions exist, and the fact is the world is becoming more global." He notes that people worldwide are traveling and immigrating, and communicating through e-mail; that movies are produced for worldwide markets; and that sports are international.
BRIDGE & CIVICS TOT Some people understand better if they are engaged in physical activities, othersneed to and in our haste of teaching content we often fail to teach the CHILD. http://www.iearnlb.org/bridge/tot/reach.html
Extractions: First click on the diagram or download the pdf format Second , take a couple of minutes to look at the diagram then read this section. At the center of the diagram is an iEARN project, which relates to kids realities and connects them to another class around the world. WHAT HOW Third, reflect and contribute: Of course you would like to share as well you own experience and how iEARN has impacted you and your teaching. How will you share your story and what you and your students gained? Next Program Components Face-to-Face Workshop One Day Mentoring Program ... - Top
KVUSA: Education: Overview Whats civics Alive!? civics Alive! is a comprehensive collectionof K12 activities that are exciting and easy to teach. The http://www.kidsvotingusa.org/education/educaFAQ.asp
Extractions: Frequently Asked Questions What is Kids Voting all about? Kids Voting USA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working with schools and communities to enhance civics education and reinvigorate democracy. Kids Voting USA is the only program of its kind that enables students to have a real-life voting experience that mirrors the adult process. Kids Voting USA teaches youth through a special curriculum, family participation and community involvement the importance of civic participation and the responsibilities of voting. How do I get my students involved in the Kids Voting program? We are so pleased you are interested in Kids Voting! If you are already in a Kids Voting community, contact you local affiliate director for information and materials. If you are not in a Kids Voting community, your students can still participate. You can access the complete version of Destination Democracy (a unique service-learning curriculum for high school students) and sample Civics Alive!
State Of Connecticut school environment program to extra curricular activities 7) after in the nation toexplicitly teach the tools A civics practicum takes place for fifteen weeks http://www.cga.state.ct.us/coc/civic engagement.htm
Extractions: Commission on Children HOME Back to Parent Engagement and Advocacy Information Civic Engagement Since September 11, 2001, there has been a growing interest in protecting and supporting community through civic engagement. The desire to uphold the core tenets of democracy is high. In a time of renewed interest and recommitment to community, a focus on civic engagement for families and youth is model practice for neighborhoods and states at large. Connecticut youth express an interest in helping. They want to give back, to meet everyday heroes and to sometimes become heroes themselves. They seek direction to participate purposefully in society. Parents, deeply concerned about their children, hope to protect and bolster child health and safety. Democracy is the bridge linking family, community and state. The practice of it gives transport to more and more citizens actively engaged in the public good. Civic tools prepare students, workers and families for the critical role each must play to live by democratic values and ideals and to guard against inequality and tyranny in its many forms. The practice of d emocracy is in its very essence a dynamic process, responsive to needs, respectful of the rule of law and dependent on the will and the skills of citizens in fulfilling their responsibility for the common good. In today's increasingly interdependent world, the resilience and strength of both individuals and society depend upon their ability to cooperate for common purposes.
Social Studies - DPS and service learning program developed to teach young Americans programs that willenhance your civics courses. cases, as well as lessons, activities and other http://curriculum.dpsk12.org/socialstudies/civics.htm
Extractions: The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation that specializes in civic/citizenship education, law-related education, and international educational exchange programs for developing democracies. Competitions promote civic competence and responsibility by focusing on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; American political traditions and institutions at the federal, state, and local levels; constitutionalism; civic participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
Description Of Adult Education And Literacy Activities practical needs of adults, and teach the skills plan implementation of integratedEL/civics skills in grant funds for administration or leadership activities. http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/adulted/statplan/chap3.shtm
Extractions: Title I - Compensatory Education Chapter 3 Description of Adult Education and Literacy Activities Section 224 (b) (2) requires: A description of the adult education and literacy activities that will be carried out with any funds received under this subtitle. 3.0 Description of Adult Education and Literacy Actvities (Section 224 (b) (2)) 3.1 Descriptions of Allowable Activities The National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) and the State Adult Literacy Survey estimates have identified a competency level and established a demonstrated need for literacy instruction. Supplementary funding for adult education programs will be set according to the following activities: Adult Basic Education (ABE) English as a Second Language (ESL) Workplace Literacy Adult Learning Center Based Literacy Family Literacy Adult Secondary Education (ASE) Department of Public Instruction will negotiate with any local provider on a case by case basis to increase the administrative cost above the five percent limit only if a local provider grant is less than $10,000. For these providers, up to $2,000 will be allocated to cover planning, administration, personnel development, and interagency coordination.
