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Teaching Voting in the Social Studies Classroom

Passion for Social Studies

This will definitely be an exciting election year. When teaching voting in the social studies classroom, students need to be civically engaged to understand how voting is essential to our democracy. Since there is a lot to include when teaching voting in the social studies classroom, this resource has everything needed!

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Washington University in St.

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Teaching the Progressive Era

Passion for Social Studies

So, this resource addresses many issues, including social, temperance, prohibition, women’s rights, and African American rights. Students will complete hands-on activities that foster critical thinking and curiosity. The Gilded Age Progressivism It is crucial that students learn critical thinking skills.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Wright, definitely had a great impact on my life. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes.

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

ED Surge

It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says. Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ?

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. That's what I do.

Library 109
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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

My day begins with teaching two 65-minute social studies periods, followed by a plan period, co-teaching a reading workshop with an ELA teacher, and ending the day with two more 65-minute social studies classes. I provided a sentence created by AI to help them use context clues to create a definition.