Super+Review+Goals

CARP Super-Review GOALS: 1st Draft
Seem logical that each division would want to have ONE goal for itself.
 * 1) Re-Examine our Electives: How does it fit with the rest of the US program. Lots of competition with other departments. Need to have variety to attract different kinds of kids.
 * 2) Do courses “hamstring” us? Econ electives //or// AP courses that drive staffing.
 * 3) Clear research and writing skills and methods goals across the curriculum 9-12. What do we mean by research? Skills: Just search engines or is it in the classroom. Is reading documents research? Do we have benchmarks? We need to be able to communicate to the outside precisely what we do and why we do it?
 * 4) 70s and 80s? Citizens or historians? Profession talked about it. How much emphasis on research and how have 21st century tools change it.
 * 5) Pedagogy and Best Practice. If we can’t communicate what we’re doing in the classroom, hard questions will come around to challenge us. Homework and outside class instruction. Technology
 * 6) Current Events.
 * 7) Staffing. Would like to have adequate staffing commensurate with our goals in education, pedagogy, sequencing. Do we have year in and year out the kind of staff that can help us achieve our goals?

Goal is to examine these areas. Not necessarily come out with a pre-defined solution BREAKOUT TALK Curriculum content pedagogy/best practices Staffing/structural AP program
 * Incorporating technology into best practices
 * More emphasis on research skills/methods [research on what and how? How to discern who an expert is? Someone you can trust? One that is good, one that is sketch] Came up with idea that good source something that had some kind of peer review. Somebody was actually checking up on it. Henry controls most of what they’re doing until they know something. …
 * Writing skills. How much, what kinds of assignments.
 * Project based skills
 * Current events and relevance of content. Applicability of social studies to today.
 * First the historical event, then relate to current events.
 * Greater variety of electives offered to 11th, 12th grade.
 * Greater collaboration
 * Greater variety of course offerings
 * Gender w/in department personnel