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Transcript of GACE Social Studies Review Session Presented By: Joe E. Hart [email protected].
Overview
What is Social Studies? Goal of Social Studies Curriculum Ten Themes of Social Studies Social Studies and Social Sciences Community as Source of Data Typical Scope and Sequence
Overview
Instructional Strategies Bloom’s Taxonomy Learning Concepts Citizenship Maps and Spatial Sense Multicultural Education Assessment
What is Social Studies? The social studies are:
selected information and modes of investigation from the social sciences
selected information from any area that relates directly to an understanding of individuals, groups, and societies
applications of the selected information to citizenship education.
Social Studies for Elementary School Classrooms (Martorella and Beal, 2002)
Goal of the Social Studies Curriculum
NCSS states the following view: “The primary purpose of social studies is
to help young people develop the ability to make informal and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.”
Social Studies for Elementary School Classrooms (Martorella and Beal, 2002)
Ten Themes of Social Studies
The National Council for Social studies (NCSS) has created ten themes that form the framework of the social studies standards<title>socialstudies.org | Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: Executive Summary
Ten Themes of Social Studies
Culture Time, Continuity, and Change People, Places, and Environments Individual Identity and Development Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
Ten Themes of Social Studies
Power, Authority, and Governance Production, Distribution, and
Consumption Science, Technology, and Society Global Connections Civic Ideals and Practices
Social Studies and Social Sciences
Geography Organized according to five central
themes location- describing positions of people and
places on Earth place- detailing the human or physical
characteristics of places on Earth relationships within places- cultural and
physical relationships between humans movement- relationships between and among
places regions- the ways areas are identified
Social Studies and Social Sciences History
A selective representation of reality with selective interpretation of events
Cause-effect relationships History websites
www.historyplace.com http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com
Click on Explore Click on US History Timeline
Economics relationships among people that are formed to satisfy
material needs cost, supply and demand, labor, standard of living,
etc.
Social Studies and Social Sciences
Political Science analysis of power and processes by which
individuals control and manage one another Anthropology
study of humankind Sociology
study of human interactions within groups Psychology
understanding individual mental processes and behaviors
Community as a Source of Data
Garbarino’s Four Spheres of Influence home, peers, community, and school
Community is a great resource Resource people Field trips Oral histories Surveys and interviews Community service projects
Typical Scope and Sequence “Expanding Communities Pattern” (Hanna)
Students are introduced each school year to an increasingly expanding world, starting with self and family to the world at large
Start with child as center and move out
http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/DMGetDocument.aspx/social.studiesK-5.pdf?p=4BE1EECF99CD364EA5554055463F1FBBF5D074D5FB1F2CAEB3B63B3ECB220CDD26C2114F3C57D8D2ACA0D35EC5A9A538&Type=D
Typical Scope and Sequence
K-1: Self, Family, School 2: Neighborhoods 3: Communities 4: State history, geographic regions 5: United States history, culture, and
geography 6: World Cultures
Instructional Strategies Activating prior knowledge Constructing knowledge Metacognition Coaching Modeling Informal Reasoning Demonstration Cooperative Learning
Instructional Strategies
Guided oral and silent work Graphic organizers Inquiry method Role-playing Simulations Small-group work (social skills) Jigsaw
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Levels of questioning Ordering questions in sequence to
stimulate the development of students’ higher-order thinking skills
Bloom's Taxonomy www.officeport.com/edu/blooms.htm
Learning Concepts Concepts: categories into which we group
information within our experience Identify misconceptions and stereotypes in
students’ understandings of concepts Analyze concepts according to examples
and non-examples Assess concept learning
Transportation vs. Not Transportation
Citizenship
Skills needed to function effectively in our complex society Social skills Conflict resolution skills Participation in democratic process
Maps and Spatial Skills Maps furnish 8 basic types of information
land and water forms relief features direction and distance social data economic information political information scientific information human factors
Maps and Spatial Skills
Introducing maps and globes Body maps Start with “me” and expand out Students must understand:
maps represent a place maps use symbols maps show a perspective from above maps reduce the size of an actual place
Multicultural Education
America is a multicultural nation because of so many cultural and ethnic groups that are represented
Addressing perspectives is crucial to multicultural understanding
Multicultural Education Multicultural education will help students:
learn how and where to obtain accurate information about a cultural group
identify and examine positive accounts of diverse cultural groups
encounter positive experiences with diverse cultural groups
develop empathic behavior practice using perspectives improve self-esteem of all students identify and analyze cultural stereotypes identify cases of discrimination and prejudice teach social studies multiculturally all year