The document summarizes the changes to Ohio's academic content standards for social studies. It describes the process for revising the standards, including input from educators and public comment. Key changes include new vocabulary, shifts in the scope and sequence for different grade levels, and the collapsing of previous strands. The new standards emphasize themes, topics, strands and content statements. Model curriculum provides additional details. New assessments will be implemented in 2014. Teachers should transition materials to align with the new standards while incorporating 21st century skills.

1. Matching Your Site to Teacher
Needs
The Current and Revised Ohio Academic
Content Standards
Megan Wood

2. Current Standards
 Blue book adopted 2002
 Ohio Graduate Test- 10th
grade
 Suspension of Ohio Achievement
Test (Assessment)- 5th
and 8th
grades
 Revision required as part of House
Bill 1 (the buget) passed in July
2009

3. Process
 Writers at the Ohio Dept of
Education
 Expert Advisory Committee
 Working Group
 Public Comment (twice!)
 Revisions
 Ohio State Board of Education
Adoption June 2010

4. Model Curriculum
 Working Group
 Teacher Groups
 Public Comment
 Ohio State Board of Education
adoption March 2011

5. Testing
 Field test new assessments 2012-
2013
 New assessments in place Fall of
2014
 Year-end course assessments
 Nationally Standardized Test (high
school)

6. Changes
 New Vocabulary

9. Changes
 New Vocabulary
 Theme- for each grade level
 Topics
 Strands- History, Government,
Geography, Economics
 Content Statements- No verbs! This is
where we align.

10. Changes
 Shift in Scope and Sequence

13. Changes
 Shift in Scope and Sequence
 Inclusion of Pre-K
 4th
Grade is Ohio history in an American
context
 5th
Grade is people and regions of
Western Hemisphere (geography focus)
 6th
Grade is people and regions of the
Eastern Hemisphere (geography focus)
 Shift in dates for 7th
grade
 More time to cover in 8th
grade

14. Changes
 Strands collapsed
 No more:
 Social Studies Skills and Methods
 People in Societies
 Civic Skills and Responsibilities

15. Changes
 High School
 Standards in course syllabi
 Includes several options for electives
 Organized chronologically through
history content
 Online only
 No longer printing and distributing
books

16. Model Curriculum
 Content Elaborations (align here)
 Expectations for Learning (verbs,
also align here)
 Instructional Strategies
 Differentiated Classroom Ideas
 Instructional Resources
 Connections

18. What does it all mean?
 Transition period- using both sets of
standards
 New projects- new standards
 Re-aligning all material
 Incorporating 21st
Century Skills

19. 21st
Century Skills
 Communication
 Creativity
 Critical Thinking
 Collaboration
 Partnership for 21st Century Skills

20. Suggested Next Steps
 Slowly re-align all programs and
leave current alignment up
 Any new programs should use the
new standards
 Assess current programming to
meet the needs of changing
standards, 21st
Century Skills

21. Opportunities
 Provide professional development
 Act as a resource provider
 Re-package or re-market programs
to meet new standards
 Timeline allows us time to adapt

22. Primary Source Activities
 Engage students in skills and
primary source material/artifacts
 Can be adapted to fit almost any
content

23. Insert Adams Family Activities

24. Other Primary Source Activities
 You are the Curator!
 Fact or Fiction
 Political Cartoons
 Great State Debate

25. Questions?
 Contact me at anytime:
 mwood@ohiohistory.org
 614 297 2343