Teaching Social Studies
Teaching Social Studies

Author: S. G. Grant

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2017-05-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1681238861

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Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers, features tasks designed to take preservice teachers deep into schools in general and into social studies education in particular. Organized around Joseph Schwab's commonplaces of education and recognizing the role of inquiry as a preferred pedagogy in social studies, the book offers a series of short chapters that highlight learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and school context. The 42 chapters describe tasks that the authors assign to their methods students as either in?class or as outside?of?class assignments. The components of each chapter are: > Summary of the task > Description of the exercise (i.e., what students are to do, the necessary resources, the timeframe for completion, grading criteria) > Description of how students respond to the activity > Description of how the task fits into the overall course > List of readings and references > Appendix that supplements the task description

Practical Strategies for Teaching K-12 Social Studies in Inclusive Classrooms
Practical Strategies for Teaching K-12 Social Studies in Inclusive Classrooms

Author: Timothy Lintner

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 1617355895

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With the national push towards inclusion, more students with disabilities are being placed in general education settings. Furthermore, when placed, more students with disabilities are entering social studies classrooms than any other content area. Classroom teachers are being asked to “reach and teach” all students, often with little support. There are numerous texts on the teaching of social studies, an equal number on teaching students with disabilities. Blending best practice in social studies and special education instruction, this book provides both pre – and in-service educators simple, practical strategies that support the creation of engaging, relevant, and appropriate social studies opportunities for all students. Though the strategies presented are useful for all students, they are particularly beneficial for students with disabilities. From Universal Design for Learning, mnemonics, graphic organizers, and big ideas, to co-teaching, screen readers and the Virtual History Museum, this book offers hands-on, practical ideas general educators can use when teaching K-12 social studies in inclusive classrooms.

The Essence of Teaching Social Studies
The Essence of Teaching Social Studies

Author: James A. Duplass

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780367559144

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Designed for use in elementary and secondary social studies education courses, this book supports the teaching of social studies methods in a range of educational settings. By highlighting long-standing content and principles of social studies education in a concise and direct way, this volume offers the building blocks of a comprehensive course, for use as springboards to the effective presentation of professors' desired course emphases. With sections on foundations, subject areas, and best practices, this text explains the intersection between the "modelling" role of social studies teachers as democratic citizens, social studies fields of study, and strategies implemented in the classroom to encourage students' critical thinking and values formation.

Teaching Social Studies that Matters
Teaching Social Studies that Matters

Author: Stephen J. Thornton

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780807745229

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No plan to increase achievement and enact reform in the social studies classroom will succeed without recognizing the central importance of the teacher as the gatekeeperof instruction. In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur. Thornton helps teachers to develop a vision of their practice that will build strong social studies programs and inspire students to learn. This book features replicable examples of the kinds of reflective practice that will enable teachers to animate classroom instruction and create a dynamic social studies curriculum and an analysis of how teachers adapt and shape state and district level curricula and classroom materials to fit the specific needs of their students, and a model of how to develop an instructional program with suggestions for lesson planning.

Handbook of Research on Social Studies Teaching and Learning
Handbook of Research on Social Studies Teaching and Learning

Author: James P. Shaver

Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780028957906

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This handbook not only presents the current status of research on significant topics in social education, but also includes discussion of formulating productive research programs. Topics include qualititative research; culturally diverse students and social studies; teacher competence; teaching and learning history; games and simulation in social studies education; writing for the social sciences and more.

Teaching Social Studies in Middle and Secondary Schools
Teaching Social Studies in Middle and Secondary Schools

Author: Peter H. Martorella

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780130203601

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This readable, accessible book offers prospective teachers a comprehensive introduction to teaching social studies to middle and secondary school students. With the purpose of social studies being the development of reflective, competent, concerned citizens, the book first examines the origins and evolution of social studies and citizenship education across the United States. Following this, targeted chapters address the art, science, and craft of social studies teaching as a means for engaging learners in knowledge construction. In the final section, the authors look at ways to improve social studies instruction through the incorporation of emerging technology into the social studies curriculum. For middle and secondary school social studies teachers.

Getting Beyond the Facts
Getting Beyond the Facts

Author: Joe L. Kincheloe

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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Social studies education is not in excellent health. The time has come to transcend the often stilted discussion about lesson plan format and the proper construction of behavioral objectives. Kincheloe suggests a reconsideration of the discourse of social studies which is grounded on the assumption that social studies teachers should control their professional lives and not merely «execute» the plans of their superiors. The idea of self-directed social studies teachers aware of their purpose offers an atmosphere of possibility to a field haunted by a lack of grounding.