«Top 10
Concerns of Social Studies Teachers.»
Not exact matches
In fact, 81 percent
of teachers surveyed in the
study above expressed
concerns about the possible pitfalls that arise from mixing professional work with
social media.
«As a
social studies teacher, I've always had a
concern about whether Internet filtering provides someone (and since filtering is a requirement
of Federal law, that someone would be the U.S. Government) with an opportunity to censor (allow for prior restraint
of) online materials.
Yet, despite the relative availability
of digital primary sources,
social studies teacher educators are still
concerned about the relatively low frequency with which these resources are being used in the classroom.
For example, one
teacher said she was told that her students» test scores in geography did not «count» and two
of the geography
teachers expressed
concern about losing their jobs because geography and
social studies courses were likely being removed from the curriculum.
In addition, the two halves
of this essay are united in theme, as they are both deeply
concerned with the issue
of citizenship and the role
of social studies teachers in cultivating critical and ethical citizens.
With the benefit
of significant research on this topic (much
of it by the authors
of these guidelines) and sobered, like them, by the «hype cycles and the techno - romance
of emerging technologies» (Hicks et al., 2014, para. 5),
social studies scholars today have a better informed and more theoretically sophisticated perspective
concerning the affordances and challenges
of digital technologies in
social studies teacher preparation than once was the case.
In conclusion, Exploratory Factor Analyses from data in
Study 1 indicated support for five factors:
social consequences; to include
concerns regarding how parents, friends, classmates and
teachers may view test performance; item types; to include items related to anxiety across item formats; and temporal aspects
of anxiety; that is how stress is felt before, during, and after an exam.