EDU 5090 Methods of Teaching Social Studies in Birth-Grade 2/Childhood and Middle School Inclusive Classrooms
This course is designed to provide teacher candidates with a holistic and interdisciplinary overview of the field of social studies, key issues in the field and of best practices for teaching social studies to elementary and middle level students in inclusive classrooms. The primary focus of this course is to help teacher candidates develop their own personal philosophy of teaching social studies, as well as develop their own rich pedagogical toolkit of classroom methodologies that will enable them to become an excellent, effective teacher of social studies. Teacher candidates will integrate social studies education, literacy skills and digital technology into lesson planning, instructional decision-making and assessment creation to address the needs of diverse learners while aligning all work to the current New York State Social Studies Framework, and the Inquiry Arc. Additionally, this course also helps to prepare teacher candidates for the Secondary Social Studies Assessment by analyzing and applying the three tasks: (1) Planning for Instruction and Assessment, (2) Instructing and Engaging Students in Learning and (3) Assessing Student Learning.
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