Crucial Issues in
teaching social studies K - 12 (pp. 341 - 386).
Not exact matches
«They know what to do,» says Brandy Holton, who
teaches 7th - grade science,
social studies, and English at the Chicago International Charter School (CICS) Irving Park, which serves grades
K — 8.
At the end of a well -
taught K - 12
social studies sequence, one would expect young people to know at least who Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were, why World War II was fought, how to find Italy and Iraq on a map, and what «supply and demand» mean.
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.
The purpose of this mixed - methods
study was to examine teachers» ratings of 37 field - tested
social studies lesson plans that incorporated digital primary sources as part of a Library of Congress
Teaching with Primary Sources professional development program for
K - 12 teachers.
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.
After
teaching middle school for 13 years in the Fort Mill, SCSchool District, where she
taught middle school science,
socials studies, and computer technology, she left the
K - 12 environment and began to work full time at Winthrop University.
Click Here to View the
Social Studies Fact Sheet Standards: http://tsba.us2.list-manage.com/track/click… World History is
taught at three different points in a Tennessee student's
K - 12 schooling: grade 6, grade 7, and once in high school.
Concordia offers an MEd in Curriculum & Instruction with a concentration in
Social Studies (
K - 14), Core requirements include Historical Thinking, The
Social Studies Toolkit, Global Citizenship:
Teaching for an Interconnected World, Project - Based Learning and
K - 14
Social Studies, and Educational Research.
Trish's background includes over 18 years of
K - 16 experience including
teaching social studies, facilitating graduate students in their pursuit of advanced degrees and serving as a district digital learning administrator.
Given their stated lack of desire to
teach social studies using the traditional methods they were exposed to as
K - 12 students, one would expect that the preservice teachers» expectations of their methods course would be to radically alter their view of
social studies and how to
teach social studies.
How do the prior
K - 12
social studies and technology experiences of preservice teachers affect their perceptions of
social studies,
teaching social studies, integrating technology into
social studies, and their overall expectations of a
social studies methods course?