Approaching the CBAs: Workshop Overview
Global Source has designed a workshop that will offer educators a professional experience of learning and leadership in approaching the CBAs. It is aimed at educators who are new to the Social Studies CBAs or just starting to experiment with them in their schools.
Moreover, this workshop aims to offer educators a professional experience of learning and leadership in approaching the Social Studies Classroom Based Assessments (CBAs). This half or full day workshop is designed to cultivate professional understanding surrounding the anatomy of a CBA and address strategies for adopting and integrating the CBA’s within existing and evolving curriculum.
Workshop Itinerary
Understanding the CBAs
State Framework, Requirements & Recommendations
District Frameworks, Requirements & Recommendations
Understanding the Anatomy of a CBA
Discretion & Constraints with the CBAs
The CBAs & Your Practice
Framing the CBA within your curriculum
District, School and Course Adoption, Alignment and Implementation
Professional Relationships and Support Networks
Sharing Curriculum Ideas & Exploring CBA Pathways and Models
Adoption Timeline & Implementation Calendars (optional)
Participants will have the opportunity to:
Experience the anatomy of a CBA, by working through a common CBA unit of study from teacher and student perspectives.
Address strategies for adapting, adopting, and integrating the CBA’s within existing and changing curriculum
Identify and discuss professional discretion and structural constraints surrounding CBA unit development, implementation and assessment the CBA’s
Examine how the CBA units of study model opportunities for best practices in teaching and learning through the social studies.
Explore how engaging in the CBAs can be a force for promoting meaningful professional dialogue, building professional learning communities, and fostering positive change in school communities.
Work on framing and planning your own CBA unit of study
Global Source's Managing Director, Jonathan Garfunkel, has been working with Caleb Perkins from the OSPI Social Studies Program to help meet the needs of districts and teachers in adoption and implementing the new reform. He is also consulting with schools and districts on CBA adoption, and helping to build professional learning communities to support their implementation and integration. If you would like Global Source to present one of our CBA workshops for your school or district, please contact Jon Garfunkel or call (206) 780-5797.
