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No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. What’s less clear is how prepared elementaryschool teachers are to put these seismic events into context. Only 42 percent have said they felt very well prepared to teach socialstudies.
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Plenty of students find socialstudies lessons a bit dull. Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. history class and had always enjoyed my socialstudies classes.
That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementaryschool student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Credit: Brian Westlake.
“There are incredibly wonderful web-based programs available – Studies Weekly being my favorite – but the number of sites that districts and schools want a teacher to examine, consider and use becomes, in my opinion, counter-productive due to the amount of time it takes to look into and accommodate them all.”
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The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the socialstudies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.
It’s about teaching human beings, and it’s not science or English or socialstudies or math … It’s about teaching human beings how to become good people.”. Marie Hydukovich was teaching middle school when she heard that 20 children had been murdered at the Sandy Hook ElementarySchool in Connecticut.
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