Middle Social Studies: Information Bulletin for Administrators

Implementation Considerations

Time Allocations:

Grade 6 Social Studies is a Required Area of Study at the Middle Level. The balance of time required for this course is 150 minutes per week.

Timetables may need to be adjusted to better accommodate an activity-oriented program.

Curriculum Documents:

Curriculum Guide - one per teacher.

Teachers Activity Guide - one per teacher

Bibliography - one per school - spring 1992; annotated and referenced by unit.

Student text - available winter, 1992

Information Bulletin for Administrators - one per school; winter, 1992.

Key Classroom Materials

The Grade 6 Social Studies is a resource-based learning course. Although a textbook was designed to accompany the curriculum, it is only one of many resources listed in the bibliography. It will be distributed in the spring of 1992.

Staff Development

Saskatchewan Education will provide regional or provincial inservice to school divisions implementing the program during the three year “window” for implementation. School divisions share the inservice costs by providing release time and associated expenses for teachers to attend implementation inservice.

Role of Administrators

To support the development of library and classroom collections of resources to support the new course. Teachers should be encouraged to use community-based resources as well.

To support teachers who wish to collaborate in planning units, expanding their repertoire of instructional strategies and methods and in using appropriate evaluation strategies.

Inform parents/boards/community that the course encourages teachers to use a variety of instructional strategies and methods and that these strategies and methods, along with a new curriculum, require that a variety of evaluation procedures be considered.