Sentences with phrase «of teaching social studies»

By witnessing a faculty model for effective technology integration, preservice teachers are given opportunities to reflect upon their previously held conceptions of teaching social studies and integrating technology into social studies.

At the end of the course, most considered social studies to be the content area they looked forward to teaching and believe technology could be used to enhance methods of teaching social studies.

Is it possible, then, for a teaching methods course to play a significant role in changing the many misconceptions preservice teachers have regarding social studies as a content area, methods of teaching social studies, and strategies for effectively integrating technology into social studies teaching?

Lori earned her MS in Interdisciplinary Studies from Buffalo State College, where she explored methods of teaching social studies in an interdisciplinary and differentiated way.

Because much of teaching social studies revolves around names, places, and dates, it is very easy to create assignments and tests that do not move beyond the Recall level of Bloom's Taxonomy.

The other, who remains «Anonymous,» reflects on many years of teaching social studies in an elite private school in upstate New York.

who became a teacher of AP history teachers after retiring from 38 years of teaching social studies at Scarsdale (New York) High School.

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

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.

We asked teachers in both groups to teach 80 social studies lessons over the course of the year, so that we would be comparing two different ways of teaching social studies, rather than teaching social studies versus not.

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The state has revoked the teaching license of Christopher Fisher, 31, who was a social studies instructor at Quantum High, a charter school in Boynton...

Einstein and the Study of «Psycho - Pathology» If there really is such a thing as social mood that guides collective human experience, how come they don't teach it in -LSB-...]

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.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

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.

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.

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 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.

At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

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.»

Masters of Secondary Education, Social Studies, New York City Teaching Fellows Program, Fordham University

She spent most of her 40 - year teaching career at Dever Elementary School, where she taught mathematics and social studies.

She has previously taught on courses at the Refugee Studies Centre and the Department of Geography at the University of Oxford, and has an ongoing affiliation as a Research and Teaching Fellow at the College of Arts and Social Sciences in Eritrea.

A study in the BMJ in 2012 found that having a professional therapist teach cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to an entire class was no more effective than having the teacher give their usual personal social and health education classes, in terms of the effect on pupils» well - being.

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 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.

In a study recently published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Chang - Kredl and her colleague Daniela Colannino (MA 16, Child Studies) examined popular representations of teachers on the social media platform Reddit.

«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.

So much has changed but many schools are stuck in the past,» said Joel Breakstone, the director of SHEG, which has designed social studies curriculum that teaches students how to evaluate primary sources.

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.

Sharon has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University and teaches courses on Buddhism, gender, race, and social engagement at Seattle University and was thrilled by the idea of further exploring the connection between mindfulness and the body through her teacher training.

- Jean A. Luckowski is a professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Montana, where she teaches social studies methods and professional ethics.

In addition to core studies in English, math, science, history, languages, and the fine arts, students take a required sequence in religion and philosophy: 6th - grade students study the Apostles» Creed and the saints; in the 7th grade, they focus on the Church and the Ten Commandments; 8th graders conduct an overview of the Bible and the Sacraments; 9th - grade students study the Old Testament, the Apologetics, and C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity; the 10th - grade focus is the New Testament and Church history; 11th grade introduces metaphysics and ethics; and the 12th - grade course features the philosophy and social teachings of the Catholic Church.

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.

Green projects can also serve as vibrant teaching tools, becoming part of high - level lesson plans in science and math, or in integrated studies, adding design, social science, or urban planning to the mix.

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.

s Richard Picking explains: «As learners become more mature and their social interaction becomes much more spontaneous, there is more of a premium on the furniture and systems supporting integral elements of the teaching mix, such as science, technology and advanced practical study.

Among a number of efforts nationally to upgrade the teaching profession by recognizing exemplary teachers, the social - studies certification program was unveiled last January.

Janine Bempechat studies and teaches about achievement motivation and social and moral development in children and young adults at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

But why not have one of the many learning centers dedicated to teaching social studies and science?

By the last year of his tenure, programs of study were organized into seven general divisions: Administration and Social Policy, Childhood Education, Human Development, Humanities, Learning Environments, Public Psychology, and Teaching.

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.

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.