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Teaching history can vary throughout the world. In some places it is more focused on the experience and the skills acquired through learning history. In other places it is more focused on knowing the material and the history of the nation. Much of the United States curriculum focuses on knowing the history of the nation.Continue reading “Blog Post 10”

It has been debated for years what the correct way to define citizenship is. This provides a challenge for teachers, specifically social studies teachers. They are the ones tasked with teaching students about being a citizen in society, and what a citizen does. Granted, some of this is taught at the younger ages, but evenContinue reading “Blog Post #9”

Culturally relevant pedagogy is important in the classroom because it helps the collective group. It urges the collective action grounded in cultural understandings, experiences, and ways of knowing the world. Teachers need to know how to teach, and in the cases of social studies teachers they need to be well-grounded in history and the socialContinue reading “Blog Post #8”

I found this reading interesting because it focused on who students and adults see as the most famous people in American history. Many people listed Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman, all three of which were key in the fight for racial equality. These were the top three most famous Americans onContinue reading “Blog Post 7”

One of the main jobs of a teacher is to create a classroom where students feel safe to question, think, and learn. In order to do this, a teacher should consider how they should best help students learn by considering how the students best learn and how to make them comfortable in the classroom. AContinue reading “Blog Post 6”

Targets and assessments are key in a teacher’s classroom. A teacher must utilize targets to set goals for what they want their students to learn and how they want them to learn it. Targets help teachers specify how and when they can help students develop skills and understand important course content. When creating targets, itContinue reading “Blog Post 5”

It is important to create a community of inquiry in the classroom. The inquiry should provide meaningful, challenging, and active context for learning history. All of these communities have things in common including, lively conversation and intellectual negotiation, conversation focusing on questions and tasks worthy of discussion, use of prior knowledge and newly gathered information,Continue reading “Blog Post 4”

As a teacher, one of the most important things you can do is support your students as they are learning. This support is called scaffolding. Scaffolding is key in helping students learn topics that may seem difficult at first. The first step in scaffolding is to stimulate the students’ interest in the topic. This canContinue reading “Blog Post 3”

Teaching history is not as simple as it may seem. The goal is to get students to use metacognitive skills; therefore, the students do not just think about what they are doing but also the extent to which they understand it. They are to know the material, but also understand it. Knowing the surface factsContinue reading “Blog Post 2”

This week’s readings focused on different ways of teaching social sciences. The different views include behaviorism, constructivism, and inquiry-based learning. Behaviorism is not widely used do to the fact that it sees knowledge as independent of the person, which can lead to teachers instilling students with information instead of having them actually learn the materialContinue reading “Blog Post #1”