CBA Program Offerings
Goals for Teacher Education Programs include:
• Facilitate a shared professional experience in understanding the anatomy of a CBA, by working through a common CBA unit of study (Causes of Conflict) 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 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.
• Examine 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.
Areas of Professional Development
Understanding the CBAs
• State Framework, Requirements & Recommendations
• OPSI K-12 Menu & Curriculum Alignment
• Social Studies Scope & Sequence
• Understanding the Anatomy of a CBA
• CBA Elements
• Approaching Teaching and Learning with and through the CBAs
Supporting the CBAs
• District Frameworks, Requirements & Recommendations
• District, School and Course Integration
• Professional Relationships & the CBAs
• Developing CBA Support Networks
• Adoption Timeline & Implementation Calendars
The CBAs and Your Practice
• Discretion & Constraints with the CBAs
• Framing the CBA within your Curriculum
• Developing CBA Pathways
• Organizing Principles for Approaching you CBA
• Strategies for implementation and assessment
Beginning and Intermediate Level Professional Development Workshops
CBA Unit of Study Workshops (around a particular CBA)
Training of Trainer Programs
District Leadership and School Consultation
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) 780-579
