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myWorld Geography ©2011 with Realize™ ©2015: Program Overview

Introduction

Hi, and welcome to My Pearson Training. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the educational journey you’ll take with myWorld Geography. So, pack your bags and let’s get started!


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Program Overview

To help you get started on your travels with myWorld Geography, we’ll look at the program foundations, instructional model, and how to navigate through the print and digital features on Pearson Realize.com. We’ll also explore some of the resources available to help your students connect, experience, and understand their world as they transfer their learning beyond the classroom.


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Program Foundations

The goal of myWorld Geography is to help students become engaged 21st Century citizens and skilled 21st Century learners. myWorld Geography gives you comprehensive support that aligns to the way you like to teach. The program’s flexible design enables you to teach myWorld Geography from a variety of delivery options including print, digital, activity-based, and blended approaches. The digital resources are available on any device, anywhere.


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Student Resources

You can choose from three different curricula that fit the academic needs of your classroom and help students expand their understanding of the world and its people. These curricula include Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, and Survey. The student edition, Student Journal, hands-on activities, and virtual travel assignments on Realize.com are all tied together through Essential Questions. All of these resources help students connect to, experience, and understand their world.


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Teacher ProGuide

Teachers are provided with a ProGuide, which uses a unit-by-unit approach. It combines a traditional teacher’s edition with a program overview, professional development, lesson plans, teaching resources for every lesson, differentiated instruction, and standards correlations. For more information about the ProGuide, please watch the tutorial on this Web site.


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Pearson Realize™ Resources

Technology is integrated into the program through Pearson Realize.com resources, where you can access programs, classes, and data. Browse myWorld Geography digital programs, then select your program to view the Table of Contents. You can customize and change the appearance from List view to Thumbnail view.


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Standards

The Standards tab allows you to drill down to detailed information on a standard and objective. By clicking on a particular standard, you will find a list of available resources to support mastery. Click or assign a particular resource to explore the components and plan out your lesson.


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eText

The eText tab provides access to the list of student eTexts. Click on the desired eText, and it will open in a second window. You can keep the eText window open and still toggle back to other course components.


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Teacher Resources

Teacher resources can be found under each of the Chapter Introductions on Pearson Realize.com. Here you will find:

Essential Question Chapter Resource Guide: The Essential Question Chapter Resource Guide provides chapter objectives along with guidance to support the Connect, Experience, and Understand instructional model.

GIS Lesson Plan: The GIS Lesson Plans give suggestions and tips on how to use myWorld Geography GIS maps in the classroom and how to create interactive multimedia tours.

Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes provide lesson notes for the interactive whiteboard. Another option is a PowerPoint® version that teachers can download and customize for the myWorld Geography classroom.

Professional Development podcasts: The Professional Development podcasts focus on how the Essential Questions and the end-of-chapter activity work together to emphasize the backward design approach.

The Preview Lesson Plan: The chapter lesson plan provides objectives, overview of materials, pacing guides, standards, chapter previews, and resources with page numbers and space to write in additional notes.


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Instructional Model

myWorld Geography is designed to provide students with experiences they will remember for a lifetime. The instructional model of myWorld Geography incorporates Understanding by Design framework (or UbD framework) principles, developed by program consultant Grant Wiggins. The goal of the UbD framework is enduring understanding and transfer of learning. In myWorld Geography, the carefully constructed Essential Questions guide learning through all of the print, hands-on, and digital learning experiences. Using the backward design process to build enduring understandings, students explore concepts, build knowledge, and transfer ideas throughout their lessons and beyond into the real world.


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Enduring Understandings

The UbD framework process begins with this goal: enduring understandings. Every activity is planned with that goal in mind. The discrete knowledge and skills students learn should help lead them to enduring understanding. The Essential Questions provide a larger framework to guide and help students understand the big ideas in each chapter. The Essential Questions also guide learning through reading, hands-on activities, digital learning experiences, and assessments in myWorld Geography.


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Connect, Experience, and Understand

Through their journey, students will connect, experience, and understand the content in the program so they can transfer their knowledge to the real world. Next, let’s spend some time looking at the adventures you and your students will embark on as you travel through myWorld Geography.


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Connect

By making personal connections to the people and places they learn about in myWorld Geography, students develop a deeper understanding of the content. Let’s look at how the myStory videos, Essential Questions, and myWorld in Numbers help students connect to their world.


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myStory Videos

The myStory video collection provides real-life stories of teens from all over the world. Viewing the experiences of these teen ambassadors helps students develop an awareness of and connection to different cultures and regions all over the world. There is a corresponding activity in the Student Journal as well, to help solidify these connections.


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Essential Questions

Each chapter begins with an Essential Question that frames the lesson and helps students unlock the answer using the stories, digital activities, interactive games, Student Journal, and hands-on projects. Essential Questions help students connect to and experience the content and gain transferable knowledge that they can use in their world.


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myWorld in Numbers

Another way that myWorld Geography connects with students is through myWorld in Numbers. The myWorld in Numbers feature was modeled after David Smith’s book If the World Were a Village. This feature provides students with a simplified explanation of important data or statistics that they can understand. If you have a customized curriculum, it will connect to data that is customized to your specific state. In this example, students can easily comprehend the relationship of China’s farmland to the world’s population as shown in simple percentages.


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Experience

Now that we’ve seen how the program connects content for students, let’s look at what it means to experience myWorld Geography. Students will travel across the globe using online resources on Pearson Realize.com and project-based activities.


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Digital Components

Pearson Realize.com-the online digital component-provides students with interactive online support for the entire program. Online features such as the Active Atlas and Culture Close Up provide multiple models for accessing information and learning. Students also have the opportunity to complete a project based on the Essential Question using a feature called On Assignment. On Assignment allows students to take a virtual and interactive trip around the world as they gather information to complete the project. They’ll watch video interviews; work through simulations; complete animated activities; and analyze maps, data, artifacts, and primary sources. Another feature is the 21st Century Skills Online Tutor, which is a 36-lesson course. Each lesson corresponds with a specific skill that students can connect with, experience, and understand.


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Activity-Based Learning

Activity-based learning inspires students to experience the content they’re studying. It helps them develop confidence and self-direction. Hands-on activities are embedded in all aspects of the program, including the student materials, the ProGuide teacher’s editions, Activity Cards, Essential Question posters, and myWorld Geography wall maps.


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Understand

We talked about how to connect and experience in myWorld Geography. Next, let’s look at how students understand what they’re learning. myWorld Geography provides opportunities throughout the program for students to transfer their knowledge to new learning situations-both inside and outside of the classroom.

Let’s look at how the Student Journal, TakingITGlobal, and Pearson Realize.com online assessments allow you to assess your students’ understanding of their world.


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Student Journal

The Student Journal helps students document their travel through myWorld Geography. The Essential Question from the chapter sets up the Student Journal to help students reflect, interact, and write about their experiences. The Student Journal provides pre-reading exercises using the Essential Question. It also provides graphic organizers, chapter support, and a two-page writing exercise to help students demonstrate enduring understanding and transfer their learning to their world.


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TakingITGlobal

The myWorld program is partnering with TakingITGlobal.org which is a safe online community that connects students to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. This tool provides yet another opportunity for students to transfer their learning through real-world experiences.


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Assessments

myWorld Geography includes multiple opportunities for students to assess themselves and for teachers to monitor students’ progress. Pearson Realize.com provides online formative and summative assessments and remediation management. Students complete myWorld Geography online assessments and are provided with instant feedback and remediation in areas of weakness. Teachers also receive feedback on test results that will help them evaluate the progress students are making in their classes.


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Instructional Support

Differentiated Instruction and English Language Instruction support is integrated throughout the program.

The Differentiated Instruction boxes provide suggestion for four levels of learner support: L1 Special Needs, L2 Extra Support, L3 On-Level, and L4 Challenge, along with enrichment activities.

English Language Instruction boxes provide suggestion for five levels of support: ELL Beginner, Early Intermediate, Intermediate, Early Advanced, and Advanced. Teachers may view these options prior to delivering instruction, so that they are better prepared to implement them when necessary.


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Closing

OK, let’s do a quick review. In this tutorial, we looked at the program foundations and instructional model of myWorld Geography, as well as the backward design process. We explored some of the resources available on Pearson Realize.com that will help your students connect, experience, and understand their world as they transfer their learning beyond the classroom.

Thank You Thank you for watching this tutorial. For more information, please watch the other myWorld Geography tutorials on this Web site.

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