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[New Information for High School Teachers] [Previous Prof. Dev.]
What's New for High Schools?
NEW GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
The State Board of Education adopted amendments to the Texas Administrative Code regarding new Graduation Requirements to be implemented beginning in the 2010-11 school year.
- What happened to concurrent enrollment courses?
Are they no longer allowed to count toward graduation credit? - What are the criteria that students must satisfy in order to opt into the Minimum High School Program (MHSP)?
- Are students who were already on the MHSP required to go back and satisfy one of the criteria?
- Are students on the MHSP still required to complete a health credit?
For answers to these and more questions about the new Graduation Requirements,
- Download a quick reference GradReq Side-by-side Chart.pdf
NEW TEKS & EOC ASSESSMENTS
Also coming down the pike,
new state standards for Social Studies and a new high-stakes assessment!
- In what school year will we experience the required Professional Development that will provide Orientation on the newly adopted TEKS?
- In what school year will we be expected to follow the new Social Studies TEKS in our instructional planning?
- In what year will students take the new EOC (STAAR) for my subject area?
For answers to these and more questions about the new TEKS & EOC implementation,
Previous Professional Development Info. / Photos
2009-10 Theme:
"Rules of Engagement:
Motivating Students by Teaching What Matters"
SPRING 2010 District-Wide Staff Development
The program included presentations from Austin ISD social studies teachers, university scholars, curriculum publishers, and liaisons from local museums and community agencies. Teachers thumbed through selecting 2-morning sessions and 1-afternoon sessions to attend. For the final session of the day, teachers attended their specific content-area's meeting to review the proposed TEKS revisions and were provided an orientation to the district's new IPGa system.
Participants received six hours of professional development credit, including 3 hours of G/T credit.
Fall 2009 District-Wide Staff Development
Teachers thumbed through an impressive program, selecting 2-morning sessions to attend. The program included over 40 presentations from Austin ISD social studies teachers, university scholars, curriculum publishers, and liaisons from local museums and community agencies.
Participants received four hours of professional development credit.
2009-10
NEW TEACHER ACADEMY
Welcome New Teachers!
What an impressive group of new high school social studies teachers we have in Austin ISD this year. We really enjoyed getting to know each of you at our New Teacher Academy the week of August 10 - 14 at Akins High.
Our thanks to Cherry Whipple who
accepted our invitation to be our
master teacher this year and who
modeled so well those "best practices" that are expectations in Austin ISD's social studies classrooms. Click here to locate the lesson Cherry modeled, 'Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?'
Assisting our master teacher again this
year were Ian Grayson, providing our ELL instructional support, and Jim Fulbright, providing Special Education
instructional support - thank you both!
Below are several of the NTA
presentation documents promised you.
Let me know if you are looking for others
and are unable to located them on our site.
Day 3:
- "A Closer Look at the Written, Taught, and Tested Curriculum".ppt
- AISD Social Studies: Strategies for Success.pdf
- Social Studies Best Practices.pdf
- ELPS : PLDs Accommodations.pdf
- Levels of Language Development.pdf
Day 5:
2008-09
Spring District-Wide Staff Development
SPRING '09
February 13, 2009
Location: Crockett High School
"Reaching All Students in Social Studies:
Academic Rigor without Rigor Mortis"
Teachers thumbed through an impressive program, selecting 2-morning and 2-afternoon sessions to attend. The program included over 60 presentations from Austin ISD social studies teachers, university scholars, textbook publishers, and liaisons from local museums and community agencies. Participants received six hours of professional development credit, including a three-hour G/T component for attending.
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