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Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success: Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Her academic interests include American Government institutions and voting behavior, State and Local Government, Women and Politics as well as issues around citizenship, civic education, and political science education and pedagogy. Department of Education as a HACU National Internship Fellow.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

In addition to academic requirements like high-level mathematics and science courses (required for many tertiary tracks but not always available or required at township schools ), Launch accomplishes its mission through unique pedagogies intended to expand students’ aspirations and propel them toward “fulfilling futures.”

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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. First, using Wiggins and McTighe’s (2005) Understanding by Design (UbD), I created what I call a UbD strand. 6; Love, 2019).