Teaching social studies with the Internet: Internet lesson plans and classroom activities.
Teaching social studies with the Internet: Internet lesson plans and classroom activities, grades 7 - 12.
Teaching social studies with technology: New research on collaborative approaches.
Not exact matches
Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned
with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to
study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church
social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).
I'm looking to eventually
teach theology, but in between my personal
studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact
with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical
studies, and
social justice.
(CNN)- A picture of a woman
with facial hair wearing a turban posted to the
social media site Reddit has garnered a firestorm of Internet reaction and has
taught at least two Ohio college students lessons in graciousness, humanities and religious
studies.
CNN: Photo of woman
with facial hair leads to conversation, understanding A picture of a woman
with facial hair wearing a turban posted to the
social media site Reddit has garnered a firestorm of Internet reaction and has
taught at least two Ohio college students lessons in graciousness, humanities and religious
studies.
The findings of this
study of Americans suggest a pervasive
social outlook among the religious - minded that seems to be incompatible
with and often opposite to the compassion
taught in the Sermon on the Mount.
For the last fifteen years I have been engaged in the
teaching of biblical
studies and of preaching
with particular emphasis on
social hermeneutics.
The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and
teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships
with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and
studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of
social justice,
social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.
Most of those years were
with 7th graders, but at some point in her
teaching she
taught every grade except 11th in some capacity or another including German,
social studies, multi-cultural education, ELD, adolescent skills and character education.
I have worked
with children nd adults of all ages starting at 5 months of age and have professionally tutored and
taught Math, Science,
Social Studies, English, Creative Writing, Reading and specialize in working
with kids
with special needs, learning disabilities, or those who may just need a little extra patience.
The swim - lesson
study, for instance, which focused on a small sample of parents
teaching their kids to swim, found that «fathers tend to stand behind their children so the children face their
social environment, whereas mothers tend to position themselves in front of their children, seeking to establish visual contact
with the children.»
In Iowa, extension program staff members work directly
with agricultural retailers to
teach them the latest in climate science, said Linda Prokopy, an associate professor of natural resource
social science at Purdue University, who also
studies farmers» views on climate change.
«The fact that eyewitnesses have experienced the past themselves makes them so credible that the students who interact
with them in person find it hard to build up the distance needed for a critical approach to their accounts,» explains Christiane Bertram, who is first author of the
study and who meanwhile
teaches teaching didactics in the
social sciences at the University of Konstanz.
This project is an innovative and fun way to
teach social studies along
with reading.
Finally,
studies show that if you try to use a robot to
teach people, their willingness to connect
with and learn from it will increase as you give it more
social - like behaviors.
In my
social studies class, I
teach an immigration unit that begins
with BrainPOP's Immigration and Citizenship videos.
The teachers of the subjects
with high - stakes tests want as much time as possible to work
with students on those skills while
social studies teachers want the same respect for their content and the time to
teach it well.
Aligned collaboration is when a
social studies department and the English department get together and agree that DBQ's (Document Based Questions) can count for English credit as well as
social studies credit and then plan the year so that topics of
study in history are
taught concurrently
with literary eras.
Nevertheless,
studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the
social background of its students, schools in provinces
with external exams
taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.
In addition to
teaching sixth grade
social studies, Brenda works
with her staff and leads technology integration workshops in the United States and Canada.
Joining a session of the Learning and
Teaching course, «Teaching History / Social Studies» with lecturer Sally Schwager, Forman expounded upon issues in teaching, education, and how the lessons of the classroom are often lessons
Teaching course, «
Teaching History / Social Studies» with lecturer Sally Schwager, Forman expounded upon issues in teaching, education, and how the lessons of the classroom are often lessons
Teaching History /
Social Studies»
with lecturer Sally Schwager, Forman expounded upon issues in
teaching, education, and how the lessons of the classroom are often lessons
teaching, education, and how the lessons of the classroom are often lessons of life.
September 7: «
Teaching 9/11»
with Rutgers Graduate School of Education associate professor Thea Abu El - Haj, Harvard College professor Ali Asani, Yale University professor Beverly Gage, Harvard Divinity School senior lecturer Diane Moore, and Cranston, R.I.
social studies teacher Christopher Oughltree.
However, I really fear
with the Common Core approach which seems to have everyone
teaching the same on the same day and no time for variation from the lesson, that
social studies class just won't have the time to do these activities, many of which the kids really enjoyed and got some sparked to learn more about the topic.
With a love of
social studies and a masters in the
teaching of
social studies ~ I became the
social studies teacher in a departmentalized format.
L&T faculty scholarship covers topics as diverse as «causal reasoning» and the brain; the
study of black and Latino family engagement
with schools; school reform and teacher leadership; the history of American education; using collaborative data inquiry to improve
teaching and learning; and how an understanding of
social psychology can improve
teaching and learning in the classroom.
If teachers» response to uncertainty is to close their doors and
teach what they know, most of what they now know is Louisiana's set of Tier 1 curricula, which has grown to encompass materials for early childhood,
social studies, and science programs, along
with math and ELA interim and benchmark assessment systems.
If teachers are honest, they will admit that they struggle to find time to
teach social studies, and if they do, it's crammed into the last minutes of the day, or perhaps creatively combined
with other lessons.
Louisiana plans to to develop and pilot a streamlined English and
social studies assessment that aligns
with what is
taught in classrooms.
Steve and Ann explore what our schools are
teaching today about citizenship by interviewing and surveying those teachers most directly charged
with educating and shaping America's new citizens — high school teachers of history and
social studies in both public and private schools.
Listen to Waukesha West
Social Studies Teacher Dale Van Keuren talk about his experience
with Twitter, specifically how it has refreshed, informed, and invigorated his
teaching practice.
«
With Web 2.0, there's a strong impetus to make connections,» says University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow, who studies how people learn and teach with social network
With Web 2.0, there's a strong impetus to make connections,» says University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow, who
studies how people learn and
teach with social network
with social networking.
I'm a San Marino High School
social studies teacher
with 30 years of
teaching experience.
The findings of this
study suggest that good peer and
social support, alongside formal processes like induction, is critical for early career teachers» resilience and coping mechanisms, and was associated
with plans to stay in
teaching long - term.
Elementary teachers who do find time to
teach social studies often report integrating the
social studies disciplines
with
Fitzsimmons came up
with the idea for that lesson
with the eighth - grade
social studies teacher, who is
teaching North Carolina geography and history.
It provides teachers
with 25 easy - to - implement lessons for
teaching academic vocabulary in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and
social studies.
The Texas textbooks, most of them from major publishing houses, were written to align
with instructional standards that the Board of Education approved back in 2010 —
with the explicit intention of tugging
social studies teaching to the right.
With expertise in Differentiation, Standards - Based
Teaching Activities, Creative and Critical Thinking, Assessment, Underachievement, and Gifted and Talented Education, we publish supplemental Activity Books to improve student thinking and questioning skills, encourage creativity in the language arts, promote critical thinking in math and science, explore character education, present research skills and provide enrichment in
social studies.
This will involve me getting them more comfortable
with teaching elementary
social studies to break this cycle.
Included are creation apps that will allow students to integrate their reading and writing skills
with the science and
social studies topics being
taught in the classroom.
It seems we would avoid much of the fragmentation and lack of theory if
social studies researchers began
with the ends in mind — student learning — and examined the ways in which technology can be used to bring about the kinds of
teaching and learning activities known to contribute positively to student learning.
Guiding students in creating their own documentary films is a daunting proposition for
social studies teachers who are responsible for
teaching content and skills in a way that balances disciplinary skills and thinking
with state - mandated tests that often emphasize a shallow understanding of content.
Center for Inspired
Teaching partners
with school districts and charter schools to create teacher - leaders
with the ability to write and implement curricula aligned
with the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) standards framework for
social studies as well as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Thanks to our LDC work during the 2010 - 2011 school year, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) contracted
with Inspired
Teaching from 2011 to 2015 to work
with cohorts of teachers to create Common Core - aligned curricula for every unit of every
social studies course grades 6 - 12.
She
taught 7th grade
social studies along
with reading and yearbook production.
Single Subject
Teaching Credential,
Social Studies and English,
with Bilingual Crosscultural Language and Academic Development (BCLAD) certification.
These one - week summer seminars, held at prestigious universities and historic sites around the United States are open to full - time K - 12 history,
social studies, and English language arts teachers; community college faculty; school librarians; National Park Service interpreters and New Teacher Fellows (students about to graduate from college
with a degree in history or education, who intend to pursue a
teaching career).
This mixed method
study examined teachers» ratings of 37 field - tested
social studies lesson plans that incorporated digital primary sources through a grant from the Library of Congress
Teaching with Primary Sources program for K - 12 teachers.