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He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring socialstudies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.
Exploring Different Cultures: When discussing cultural differences and traditions, the teacher could prompt students to share their initial assumptions and how their views changed as they learned about diverse cultures. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness.
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.”.
Experts say that requires regular and high-quality socialstudies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Most states either don’t test socialstudies, or the socialstudies test doesn’t really count toward adequate yearly progress.”.
Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a socialstudies 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.
High school socialstudies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” Socialstudies classes shouldn’t frame conflict as a problem, but as a challenge, said Kawashima-Ginsberg.
Schools are afraid of dividing and triggering their students amid the fraught, frenzied, hyperpartisan, superpolarized and downright ugly political culture of our country right now. Related: PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into socialstudies. I understand — but urge these schools to reconsider.
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