Sentences with phrase «taught social studies units»

The richest examples of K - 12 students demonstrating digital citizenship skills were seen in the work samples and reflections of elementary and secondary preservice teachers who taught social studies units.

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One taught social studies using the project - based units we designed (the experimental or PBL group), and the other taught social studies as they normally did (the control group).

In my social studies class, I teach an immigration unit that begins with BrainPOP's Immigration and Citizenship videos.

English language development is taught in the context of thematic science and social studies units, broadening children's knowledge of the world.

In the third - grade social studies curriculum at Friends School of Baltimore, where I teach, what used to be a mundane, teacher - led unit on Native Americans is now a semester - long PBL unit.

Rather than administering separate social studies and English tests at the end of the year, Louisiana schools participating in the pilot will teach short social studies and English curriculum units in tandem over the course of the year, pausing briefly after each unit to assess students» reading, writing and content knowledge.

In Teaching Middle School Social Studies III, Ali Brown — director of history achievement for the Achievement First schools — asked her class to write an «essential question» that would frame a unit they were soon to teach on the American Revolution.

In fact, in a study of a project - based approach to teaching social studies and content literacy to 2nd graders, my colleagues and I were able to close the gap, statistically speaking, between students in high - poverty school districts — who experienced project - based units — and students in wealthy school districts — who did not.

Social studies and literacy content, too, can be adapted into PBL units to benefit teaching and learning, the authors argue.

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.

Mentored field experiences begin with a one - day - a-week school placement in freshman year, include pre-practicum experiences in schools, and culminate with full - time student teaching in a social studies classroom during senior year, affording preservice teachers the opportunity to design and implement inquiry - based, content - rich units of study, and to assess students» learning.

During a Social Studies unit on landforms, a teacher assigns a nonfiction text for students to analyze using Reciprocal Teaching.

This Family Tree set of teaching resources works well in conjunction with a social studies unit.

We recognize how critical it is to link these real - world experiences to transferrable skills, which why we've aligned the unit to third - grade social studies standards, as well as to components of the Teaching Tolerance framework.

This study of 65 elementary school teacher candidates enrolled in social studies methods classes examined attitudes toward currently contentious curriculum issues before and after participation in a practicum experience teaching an arts - integrated unit on Africa.