Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Slideshow Landmarks Don’t Look Behind You Magic Elevator Game 1: Slideshow Slideshow is a great game for students to recall and re-interpret literature, social studies, and science content. Science: 8th graders studying cells name different types of cells and make a pose demonstrating their function.

Geography 278

Geography Social Studies Pedagogy Library 278

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian? I'm an educator. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. I also teach media literacy.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. At first, I was convinced I found a pedagogy ingrained with Indigenous wisdom that could further decolonize my teaching.

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Cultures Teaching Pedagogy Ancestry 137

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. A lot of times, social studies gets a bad rap.

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. The post Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. I sat next to the bookshelf and placed my notes on a shelf in view. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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K-12 Teaching Pedagogy Library 262

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

As a history major in college and former Social Studies teacher, I am aware of the racial abuses that have permeated our nation’s history and continue to be present. Books: School leadership for social justice. Books: Culturally-relevant pedagogy. Still learning… Still growing… . Books: Anti-racism.

Social Justice 109

Social Justice Leadership Pedagogy Social Studies 109

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. “Language arts, social studies, science. The post The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. The post Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Library Social Studies Social Justice 130

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Implementation Issues Service-learning projects reinforce SEL because they broaden perspectives, deepen social awareness and connect actions to the needs of communities. Personally, I believe that teaching SEL as a stand-alone is poor pedagogy.

Civic Engagement 137

Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 137

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. The post Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Heritage Teaching Library 130

Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

But specialization also has costs: It gives teachers fewer opportunities to tailor pedagogy to individual students and to follow through on behavior coaching. Depending on how many teachers there were per grade, each taught either math, reading, science and social studies, math and science, or reading and social studies.

Teaching 84

Teaching Elementary School Pedagogy Social Studies 84

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

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 ? The focus is more on showing teachers how to implement curriculum rather than on growing teachers’ depth of knowledge or pedagogy, she says.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. The third-graders in Crystal O’Brien’s class darted from station to station — laughing, arguing, playing. During structured play, O’Brien guides the topic and provides parameters.

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Elementary School Pedagogy Public School Middle School 144

C3 Teachers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Social studies teachers look out into the eyes of a new group of students petrified that the inquiry bridge might not appear. They liken inquiry-based teaching to a holy grail of social studies where they reap exponential rewards. After all, inquiry is filled with unknowns.

Critical Thinking 52

Critical Thinking Social Studies Civics Pedagogy 52

C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

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.

Controversial Topics 49

Controversial Topics Sociology Pedagogy Social Studies 49

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Schools of education typically require students earning a degree in elementary education to take regular arts and science classes – such English literature, social studies, math, fine arts, and even physical education – as well as a “methods” class that teaches them how to present the material and to anticipate the common errors students make.

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2022

As a novice teacher, I knew that I wanted my curriculum to be relevant, responsive, and sustaining, and I knew I wanted to attend to those resource pedagogies through asking questions. The first time I encountered inquiry I was immediately hooked. Inquiry helped me do both!

Professional Development 52

Professional Development Pedagogy Social Studies Teaching 52

4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class. The consultants were not social studies experts. I noticed something strange, however. It’s not their fault, really.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources Artifacts Archiving Social Studies 40

C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

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. A Divergence of Interests: Critical Race Theory and White Privilege Pedagogy,” 2020.

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Controversial Topics Sociology Pedagogy Social Studies 40

Letters and Ink Blog

JULY 26, 2022

My texts This year, I’m teaching a writing-intensive quarter, where I’ll be using text excerpts and background- knowledge builders to support what my social studies teacher is doing. I know I want to do that first and really give students a solid writing foundation to support the analytical work of the following quarters.

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Lesson Plan Teaching Social Studies History 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. ” One important shift in social studies would be a recognition that people from Arab countries have been in the United States for generations. “They tend to be overlooked. . at that time.

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Social Studies Cultures History Pedagogy 130

C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

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.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Saykhamphone and other Black students at the school found this lesson offensive, but their teacher did not understand why until students talked to Fairfax County’s culturally responsive pedagogy specialists to intervene. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Teachers are afraid of what they can show,” he said.

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History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 99

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No And to date, no district has taken historian Richard Bailey up on his offer to provide free copies of his book on Reconstruction.

History 102

History K-12 Library Social Studies 102

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. ” At an evocative point in a story (or a point of uncertainty in science or social studies), we ask open questions like: “What are you thinking?” “What are you thinking?”

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Pedagogy Library Social Studies Social Justice 259

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Many of the practices I have personally advocated for on Cult of Pedagogy, like calling students by their preferred names and pronouns and teaching accurate history , would likely get a teacher flagged by this policy, and right now I’m not sure what the best course of action is when it comes to these practices. 1 point per card.

Teaching 175

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Social Justice 175

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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.

Controversial Topics 141

Controversial Topics Teaching Civics Civic Engagement 141