June Chapin focuses on key topics that are critical to the teaching of social studies in the middle and secondary classrooms. This brief, practical book enables readers to concentrate on the crucial, relevant strategies and content to become effective social studies teachers who will be able to teach in a wide diversity of classrooms. The goal for the reader is to teach social studies creatively and thoughtfully so that their students become knowledgeable and responsible citizens acting on core values and beliefs.
Practical Guide to Middle and Secondary Social Studies
Practical Guide to Middle and Secondary Social Studies, A.
Designed to focus on central concerns in teaching social studies in a standards-based environment, this brief text enables teachers to successfully implement a social studies curriculum with concepts, strategies, and values relevant to ...
/*0205447244, Chapin, Elementary Social Studies. 6e*/Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide, 6/e, focuses on topics that are basic and specific, yet critical to the teaching of social studies in the...
... have written about multicultural education and culturally relevant pedagogy in order to help you gain a better understanding of these education approaches (e.g., Banks, 1996, 1997; Gay, 2000; Grant, 2003; Ladson-Billings, 2001).
New to this Edition A list of goals before each chapter presents an overview of the chapter’s content focus, and provides an outline for the chapter review.
As a result they should have access to a resource which clearly and engagingly shows them how. This is Writing in the Social Studies.
The text includes separate chapters on teaching each of the major areas of the social studies curriculum.
... historical and geographical poems can be turned into readers' theater with very little rewriting. With classic narrative poems, like those by Longfellow, Whittier, Macaulay and others, sound effects can be added to increase the fun.
SUMMARY:Provides a practical guide for prospective and experienced teachers, accenting lesson and unit planning, resources and methods, as well as outlining the purposes and aims of social studies learnings.