Sentences with phrase «for teaching social studies»

We hope the representations contained in these articles will help others to reflect upon what makes for effective teaching in these situations, and for teaching social studies in general.

This program is aligned with West Virginia Professional Teaching Standards, the National Council for the Social Studies standards, the International Society for Technology in Education, and the West Virginia 21st Century standards for teaching social studies.

Simulations, games, and role playing can be one of the most effective techniques for teaching social studies, but require the teacher to be a good explainer of the background information and manager of the activities.

She indicated that the most important reason for teaching social studies is to have her students develop skills in language arts and reading, as reading is important in all subject areas.

Although mobile technology devices and social media enabled the active citizenry that took place in North African countries and the Middle East, it is important to investigate the potential of these tools for teaching, and specifically, for teaching social studies in both a United States and a global context.

texts deemed appropriate for teaching social studies to our youngest learners, yet it is significantly more challenging to

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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).

The commentary for Luke 4:18 in the ESV Study Bible notes, «Jesus» ministry included... forgiving sins and the ethical teachings that promote social justice.»

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.

He was an engineer in California when he entered the 1990 debate over the California state guidelines for the teaching of Islamic history and religion in social studies.

They call for increased use of case study teaching methods and of the practicum, for more attention to pressing social issues, for more deliberate globalization of the context of teaching, and for more care to teach students and not simply to teach subject matters.8

For the last fifteen years I have been engaged in the teaching of biblical studies and of preaching with particular emphasis on social hermeneutics.

This was an excellent social opportunity and I met the lion's share of great friends, found some great study partners including an honorable mention for a graduate student and Mensa member that taught me some great study habits.

The Rainforest Alliance curricula are unique in that it teaches language arts, math, science, social studies and the arts while addressing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and mathematics, and the Next Generation Science Standards.

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.

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.»

The study, published in The Journal of Social Studies Research, shows iCivics is an effective tool for teaching civics concepts to primary and middle school students.

«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.

She has held teaching and research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna, King's College, Cambridge, University of Bielefeld, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Ecole des Hautes Etudes an Sciences Sociales, Paris, Science Center for Social Sciences, Berlin, Collegium Budapest, Budapest.

About Blog Teaching social studies and history for middle school in Florida.

The 50 - 50 model of dual language instruction splits language instruction both by content and in time; for example, science and social studies may be taught in Spanish while language arts and math are taught in English.

These projects can teach kids about such subjects as social studies or literature using digital tools — maps and timelines, for instance — that will develop a relationship between narrative and history, time and place.

After two years working in Portland, I found my way to Bay Area, California where I taught 9th grade social studies for 3 years while I supported faculty in developing their capacity to hold space for critical conversations around diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well as supporting social justice curriculum reform within the network.

Sociologist James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, continues his crusade to encourage the honest teaching of U.S. history, warts and all, in this call for a social studies curriculum based on critical thinking and project learning.

In 1955, Percival Symonds, professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he taught mental hygiene, headed a study publicized by the Council for Research in the Social Sciences of Columbia University.

Larry Ferlazzo Larry Ferlazzo has taught English and Social Studies to both English Language Learners and mainstream students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California, for six years.

Lesson study in elementary social studies teacher education helps prepare our interns for the classroom, giving them the opportunity to learn about collaboratively planning, teaching and revising a social studies lesson so that it interests and challenges their students.

Content: C - SPAN Classroom is a Web site that features video clips for teachers to show classes in the course of teaching social studies, civics and U.S. history.

For instance, Being, Space, and Place will teach English and social studies.

Practicing What He Teaches: Brent Coley references a class textbook to record a StudyCast, a podcast he records for his students as an audio review for their social studies and science tests.

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.

We were lucky enough to have Mark teaching English and social studies in our classrooms for 15 years.

We soon formed The Kids Like Blues Band, and since last March we've used blues songs as a springboard for teaching academic content standards in reading, writing, listening, speech, social studies, technology, and the visual and performing arts.

Lesson plans are available that use the visual arts as a basis for teaching language arts, art, science, social studies, and math, and are related to the six themes of the site.

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.

At Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, we teach MPX, a completely project - based curriculum that fulfills the ninth grade requirements for biology, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.

As a social studies teacher, he had seventh and eighth grade students in a «looped» class in which he taught the same students for both years.

Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently, taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

For many public school teachers, social studies instructors included, teaching about religion is a daunting task.

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.

For instance, schools may have taught to the tests in math and reading while neglecting science, social studies, the arts, and physical education.

While subject - area knowledge is privileged in the standards — INTASC has developed specific standards for science, mathematics, English language arts, and special education, and will soon release those for the elementary - school level, social studies, and foreign language — the standards also make clear that knowledge of child development, learning theory, and teaching approaches is essential.

The Instructional Leadership strand is designed for individuals who have taught at least three years, seek to increase their knowledge of instruction and curriculum in their subject area (science, mathematics or social studies) or English Language Arts (ELA) at the elementary and secondary levels, and are interested in finding ways to extend their influence beyond the classroom into areas such as coaching, curriculum development or teacher research.

These classes are therefore typically taught completely in English either as a pullout supplement to the mainstream classroom, in which case the emphasis is on teaching the English language itself, or as a substitute for the mainstream classroom, in which case all subjects, including math, social studies, and science, will be taught in English at a pace the children can understand.

Ready to Teach English and Spanish store offers the chance to get educational resources for dual, Language, Maths, Science and Social studies teachers.

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.

I have been teaching embroidery for many years and have found that this art form, besides teaching many artistic skills, also teaches concentration, accuracy, dexterity, persistence, responsibility, community spirit, social studies and history and a love of creativity.

Previously, she taught at New York University where she served as chair of the Department of the Humanities and the Social Sciences and was director of the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education.

The author holds a PhD in Human Rights and Peace Studies (recipient of the Swedish International Development Agency SIDA scholarship) from the Centre for Human Rights and Social Development, Mahidol University, Thailand; and is engaged as Assistant Professor (Human Rights), teaching at both Graduate and Post Graduate levels at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.