Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach, 3rd edition

✍ Scribed by Alan J. Singer, Hofstra New Teachers Network

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This popular text advocates an inquiry and activity-based view of social studies teaching that respects the points of view of students and teachers. Based in practice and experience, it offers systematic support and open, honest advice for new teachers, is conversational not pedantic, and provides lots of examples. While the structure and most of the topics remain largely the same as before, this Third Edition presents new lesson ideas in every chapter especially designed to help new teachers to address learning standards, to work in inclusive settings, and to promote literacy and the use of technology in social studies classrooms puts a heavier focus on what is important to know and why includes new essays on the politics of social studies education responds to opponents of project- or activity-based social studies instruction and multicultural education with a sharpened defense of both of these approaches throughout the book Intended as a text for undergraduate and graduate pre-service social studies methods courses, this text is also useful for in-service training programs, as a reference for new social studies teachers, and as a resource for experienced social studies educators who are engaged in rethinking their teaching practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication
......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
WHY WRITE A THIRD EDITION?......Page 12
NEW IN THE THIRD EDITION......Page 15
GOALS AS AUTHOR AND TEACHER......Page 16
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 17
1. Who Am I?......Page 20
Learning Activity: Ballad for Americans......Page 21
Classroom Activity: My Life and History......Page 23
Teaching Activity: Should the Curriculum Depend on Your Students?......Page 25
Learning Activity: Another Brick in the Wall......Page 27
Classroom Activity: Who Am I?......Page 29
Learning Activity: Lens to the Past......Page 30
Learning Activity: Decision-making in a Democratic Classroom......Page 33
Classroom Activity: Family Artifacts......Page 35
Learning Activity: The Changing Complexion of the United States......Page 36
Classroom Activity: Cartoon Metaphors......Page 37
References and Recommendations for Further Reading......Page 39
I. Thinking About Social Studies......Page 40
2. Why Study History?......Page 42
3. What Is Social Studies?......Page 78
4. What Are Our Goals?......Page 100
5. Is Social Studies Teaching “political”?......Page 126
6. How Do You Plan A Social Studies Curriculum?......Page 156
Ii. Preparing To Teach Social Studies......Page 188
7. How Do You Plan A Social Studies Unit?......Page 190
8. How Do You Plan A Social Studies Lesson?......Page 237
9. What Are The Building Blocks Of An Activity-based Lesson?......Page 273
Iii. Implementing Your Ideas......Page 310
10. How Can Social Studies Teachers Plan Controversy-centered, Thematic, And Interdisciplinary Units?......Page 312
11. What Is A Project Approach To Social Studies?......Page 336
12. How Should Teachers Assess Student Learning And Our Own Practice?......Page 370
13. What Resources Exist For Social Studies Classrooms And Teachers?......Page 405
Author Index......Page 428
Subject Index......Page 433