Fall 2011 Grade 8 TAH Teacher Self Assessment - Standards

This information in this survey is private and will only be shared with the grant evaluator. Please include your FIRST and LAST name. There are three sections to this self-assessment: (1) rating your personal knowledge of the content of each standard, (2) rating your knowledge of strategies in teaching each standard, and (3) knowledge in the use of technology/online resources.
Sept. 2009.
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  1. Rate your PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE of the content of this standard (10 is high):
    8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy
     
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    8.2 Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.
     
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    8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.
     
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    8.4 Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.
     
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    8.5 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic.
     
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    8.6 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.
     
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    8.7 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.
     
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    8.8 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.
     
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    8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
     
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    8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.
     
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    8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.
     
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    8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.
     
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  1. How often do your students use primary sources?
     
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  1. How often do your students work in small groups?
     
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  1. How often do your students do history related projects?
     
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  1. How often do your students make presentations to the class?
     
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  1. How often do your students create research reports?
     
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  1. How often do your students use a variety of resources in your classroom such as computers, maps, globes, film, etc.?
     
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    Never  Daily


  1. How often do you as a teacher develop lessons and materials that go beyond traditional use of lectures and textbooks?
     
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    Never  Daily


  1. How often do you as a teacher create reading and writing activities focused on primary documents?
     
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    Never  Daily


  1. How often do you as a teacher allow time and space for interactive class discussions, debates, etc.?
     
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    Never  Daily


  1. How often do you as a teacher organize instruction to connect a variety of historical themes and topics throughout the year?
     
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    Never  Daily


  1. Rate your personal knowledge in the use of technology and online resources for teaching history.
     
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  1. Approximately how many lessons did you teach last year using primary resources? (Please provide an estimated number).


  1. General Comments.





Lynne Silva