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TEKS Revisions -
Now is the time
to give input!
STEP ONE: Find your grade level's Proposed TEKS Revisions Comment Form below. Open the link and save this document to your desktop.
STEP TWO:
Provide feedback on this form and, when done, electronically save the form, giving the file a name that includes your own name, campus, and the subject you're commenting on.
Example:
Smith_AkinsHS_WrldGeo
STEP THREE:
Bring your completed forms to our District-Wide Staff Development day, Feb. 12.
The concluding session of that day you will assemble with your content-area colleagues, collectively dialogue about your subject area's proposed revisions, and your comments along with others from the district will be compiled into a final report.
- Dowload the TEKS Historical Figures form
- Download the Middle School TEKS REvisions Form
- 6th Grade TEKS Revision Template
- 7th Grade TEKS Revision Template
- 8th Grade TEKS Revision Template
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Your colleagues on the district's new IPGa Online Database want your model lessons! (IPGa .ppt)
Download the IPGa
Lesson Submission Form
Bedichek Middle School Receives Funds
to Restore Historic Document
Donated by Dan Johnson
On February 25th, members of the American Legion Onion Creek Post presented Bedichek Middle School with a check for $400.00 to aid in the restoration of a document donated by Dan Johnson, a retired social studies teacher at Bedichek. The document, dated July 8, 1812, appoints John Hopkins 1st Lieutenant in the 2nd Company of the Rangers.
Mr. Johnson believed that students needed to see and touch history, and bringing in documents such as the one recently donated to the campus was one way he brought history alive for his students.
During the ceremony, Mr. Johnson explained how he acquired the document, and he provided background information about the document for the students, teachers, press and administration in the audience.
Media attention from the event prompted more donations, including $300.00 from a VFW Post. With their fundraising goal of $750.00 met, the document can be restored.
The Bedichek faculty plans to have another gathering when the restoration process is complete.
Awards & Recognition
O. Henry Student Receives High Honors for
History Day Project
Bo Balagia, student at O. Henry Middle School, participated in the Cen-Tex History Day Competition. At the state level Bo placed first in the Junior Individual Documentary Category with his medial presentation, "Charlie Wilson: How He Defeated the Russians."
Bo's performance at the state level advanced him to the National History Day competition held this summer in Washington, DC. Bo's extensive research, analysis, and synthesis of primary and secondary sources earned him twelfth place at the national level.
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.
© AISD, 2009 /