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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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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.

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OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

The Hechinger Report

Related: PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies. Three states — Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts — have in recent years revamped their social studies and civic education standards and have created legislation to implement modern civic education.