Sentences with phrase «opportunities for social studies teachers»

This summer the Maine Department of Education is hosting three different professional development opportunities for social studies teachers including sessions specific to elementary teachers.

The opportunity for social studies teachers to integrate primary sources into the classroom and engage their students in doing history has now become more of a reality due to increased access to archival material, once only available to historians visiting the archives.

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«When an opportunity presents itself, we need to take it,» Anthony Nicodemo, Saunders High School basketball coach and social studies teacher, said in announcing his candidacy for New York state Assembly.

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.

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«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.

Create an award for a teacher (other than a social studies teacher) who provides high school students with quality civic learning opportunities.

At a minimum, social studies teachers must be familiar with the practicalities of universal access and the range of assistive technologies that can be used to appropriately foster learning opportunities within the social studies classroom for all.

The social studies teacher in today's classroom can use technology to extend learning opportunities for K - 12 students.

Teachers provide daily opportunities for children to improve skills in language and literacy, math concepts, science, social studies, arts, physical development, and social and emotional development.

In addition to technology, Brown Deer High social studies teacher Erica Probst says she'd like to fund more opportunities for teachers to collaborate.

For English teachers, here is an extraordinary opportunity to plan an interdisciplinary curriculum with a social studies teacher.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

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As someone familiar with many social practices of Web 2.0, Ed Cator seemed to recognize the value and place of «wild thinking, creating one's own definitions and rules... being «naughty»... and constructing knowledge» with other teachers across time and space; however, this study, coupled with published and anecdotal evidence in teacher education, suggests that many preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and even doctoral students in teacher education have had limited opportunities for professional collaboration or serious epistemic roles in education — especially in school - based professional development and university - based teacher education.

In any presidential election year, the months before the election afford middle and high school teachers a great opportunity to engage students in the new The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (C3s) These new frameworks center on guiding students in activities so that they can see how citizens apply civic virtues and democratic principles and have the opportunity to see actual civic engagement in the democratic process.

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.