Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
Publisher: Corwin Press | 2008 | ISBN: 1412924537/1412924529 | English | True PDF | 120 pages | 1.86 Mb
Publisher: Corwin Press | 2008 | ISBN: 1412924537/1412924529 | English | True PDF | 120 pages | 1.86 Mb
This collection of outstanding, teacher-tested methods for K–12 social studies instruction for diverse classrooms offers fresh ideas and strategies covering citizenship, diversity, community, and more.
Join Randi Stone as she visits the classrooms of award-winning teachers to observe their tried-and-true best practices for teaching social studies to elementary, middle school, and high school learners. Explore inquiry-based strategies for building student confidence and achievement as teachers demonstrate how students do oral histories, design individualized research projects, learn about geography and cultural diversity, become pro-active citizens who engage in service to their communities, engage in debates and Socratic dialogue, and much more. Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies is packed with lessons that work and ideas that will expand the instructional repertoires of new and veteran teachers.
Review
"You can easily adapt these practical lessons for your own classroom. Each chapter shows how social studies can be tied to a multiplicity of disciplines, including history, geography, math, science, and technology." (Lindy G. Poling, Social Studies Department Chair 20080111)
"Randi Stone has assembled an exciting collection of teaching methods to benefit all learners. The book brings together an esteemed group of teachers who are to be congratulated for sparking interest in a subject that is too often taught solely from a textbook." (Heather E. Robinson, Fifth-Grade Teacher)
Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
