Social+Studies+Teacher+Leaders

As distributed to the list today:

My cut at the descriptor, as promised in our meeting late yesterday:

The MCSS is seeking to identify Social Studies Teachers from Grade 4 - 12 to act as Social Studies Teacher Leaders in a variety of locations across the state during a day long hybrid (there will be online and local components) conference. These Social Studies Teacher Leaders will work alongside MLTI staff to support local participants during the conference. Attributes of Social Studies Teacher Leaders might be:

1) Well grounded in Social Studies content and currently involved in the use of source documents and local resources as teaching tools. 2) Reasonable technically proficient - not afraid of "trying new things" in the digital classroom, and willing to be a learner. 3) Able to work collaboratively in the digital world; already using wikis and blogs either as teaching tools or as ways to support your own professional growth. 4) Interested in being an active part of a team that will build a new model of state-wide professional development that will be both true to the traditional curricular and pedagogical needs of classroom teachers and one that fully leverages the remarkable digital possibilities of the MLTI and other digital opportunities in the state of Maine and beyond.

It should be understood that while technological proficiency is a desired attribute, the ability to apply technical skills in a Social Studies classroom for curricular and pedagogical improvement are the most highly valued.