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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

Most importantly, I want the course content to be relevant to their lives as future teachers, and I want them to see themselves as civic and political actors. In support of this claim, preservice teachers may point to the ways that inquiry can work to interrogate complex topics while allowing students to come to their own conclusions.

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STUDENT VOICE: How alt-right memes on Instagram and Reddit are radicalizing my classmates

The Hechinger Report

Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics. I often put a dot on my board,” said Chris Kerrick, a civics teacher at Marshall County High School in rural southwestern Kentucky. “I For example, at my school, I have not taken a class solely about navigating media.

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Should teachers be apolitical?

The Hechinger Report

7, 2021, armed with a plan to talk to all of her classes about the attack on the U.S. Palu’s principal backed her up, but she worries about backlash when she tackles controversial topics in the future. Samantha Palu, a high school government teacher in South Dakota, came to school on Jan. Capitol the previous day.