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After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state socialstudies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.
With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. Unfortunately, this portrayal isn't unique and reflects a broader issue with how socialstudies is perceived. However, if taught with the intent to inspire and engage, history is far from boring or monotone.
The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to.
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For example, an AR app can create interactive 3D models of historical artifacts or scientific specimens that students can learn from and explore. The McGraw Hill program is releasing a socialstudies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas. What does AR look like in the humanities?
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Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as socialstudies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.
Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. And Reich has made it a personal goal to share the lesson.
We recently heard from an elementary teacher who admitted to skimping on socialstudies instruction in her classroom. But socialstudies in the early grades? Elementary schools don’t devote a lot of time to socialstudies, and there are fewer resources available. This is a common problem. Not so much.
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We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our socialstudies program. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning socialstudies class. I noticed something strange, however.
This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and socialstudies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both. These conversations can be done in small groups, or whole class.
C3 Teachers followed six secondary and middle level preservice teachers at the University of Kentucky as they designed inquiries for their socialstudies methods class. Socialstudies affords endless possibilities for inquiry. In the world of socialstudies, there are a plethora of topics to cover.
C3 Teachers followed six secondary and middle level preservice teachers at the University of Kentucky as they designed inquiries for their socialstudies methods class. Socialstudies affords endless possibilities for inquiry. In the world of socialstudies, there are a plethora of topics to cover.
Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school socialstudies textbooks. Students can hear a narration about these individuals, read their biographies, look at artifacts from their lives, and learn about the time period in which they lived and what they accomplished. Subscribe today!
workshop: contextualize and identify meaningful artifacts, then say what the creators of those artifacts were thinking when they created them. The lesson I’ve described provided students with no information at all about audience response to the artifacts students were asked to interpret. BAIT AND SWITCH “Was X effective?”
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