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The Power of I Used to Think…Now I Think

Catlin Tucker

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea.

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Sources Talking to Other Sources

C3 Teachers

See my first post on The Building Blocks of Inquiry here If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. If you can, embrace them!

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Sources Talking to Other Sources

C3 Teachers

If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. The point is, controversial topics WILL make it into your classroom.

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them. Each activity incorporates the target words and controversial topic of the week: The math teacher assigns and discusses one or two problems in a format modeled on the Massachusetts state math assessment.

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them. Each activity incorporates the target words and controversial topic of the week: The math teacher assigns and discusses one or two problems in a format modeled on the Massachusetts state math assessment.

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

C3 Teachers

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment.