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Description: |
| Building home-school connections through homework |
Parents of high school students tend to lose track of what is happening with their student’s education. This resource shows a way to use homework assignments to inform parents and to engage them and their student in curriculum-related discussions. |
| Establishing classroom protocols |
This resource suggests classroom protocols that teachers can use to help their students orient themselves within a secondary course and make adjustments when they have been absent. |
| Sample lesson plan for a block schedule |
This resource presents a lesson plan template for possible adaptation. At the same time, it exemplifies how block-schedule teaching requires planning a variety of student activities for each class session. |
| Using open-ended questions |
This resource makes a case for the use of assessment assignments that require synthesis and evaluation. It presents a sample in the form of a high-school history assignment that helps bring historical participants to life. |
| Using simulations to motivate students |
This resource shows social studies teachers how they can write their own simulations. It presents two examples of teacher-made simulations that have been used in a high school history course. |
