Description
Book SynopsisNow in its 5th edition, this popular text offers practical, interesting, exciting ways to teach social studies and a multitude of instructional and professional resources for teachers. Theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment are woven into a comprehensive model for setting objectives; planning lessons, units, and courses; choosing classroom strategies; and constructing tests for some of the field''s most popular and enduring programs. The reflective and integrative framework emphasizes building imagination, insight, and critical thinking into everyday classrooms; encourages problem-solving attitudes and behavior; and provokes analysis, reflection, and debate.
Throughout the text, all aspects of curriculum and instruction are viewed from a tripartite perspective that divides social studies instruction into didactic (factual), reflective (analytical), and affective (judgmental) components. These three components are seen as supporting one another, building the groundwork fo
Table of Contents
Part I: Philosophy and History of Social Studies: What is (are) the Social Studies?; 1. Social Studies: Definition, Organization, and Orientation; 2. The Fields of Social Studies: Setting Didactic, Reflective and Affective Goals; Part II: Teachers and Students: A Context for Social Studies Instruction; 3. Teacher Roles for Student Audiences; Part III: Strategies for Social Studies Instruction; 4. Teaching Strategies for Lower Level Skills; 5. Teaching Strategies for Higher Level Skills; 6. Assessment in Social Studies; Part IV: Teaching the Social Studies Curriculum; 7. Teaching World/Global Studies; 8. Teaching U.S. Government and Civics; Part V: Multiple Media for Multiple Intelligences in the Social Studies; 9. Teaching in the Age of Internet: Multiple Literacy for Many Media; Part VI: The Social Studies Classroom: Professional Issues and Trends; 10. A Future for the Social Studies Classroom
