Welcome to Education 514
Teaching History and Social Studies in the Middle and High School Classroom
3 Credits
A Fully Remote Class for Fall 2020
Each of You is Starting to Teach Middle and High School Students
about the Histories of the World and its Peoples
What content are you going to teach?
What methods will you use to create memorable learning for students?
This course is designed to start developing answers to these questions.
Complete Fall Methods Course Syllabus
What Am I Going To Do
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What Am I Going to Learn in this Course?
You will be doing these learning activities in the course.
1. Completing Weekly Written Responses to Virtual Workshops on Your Own Time and Schedule.
These will include reflections on the use of best practice teaching methods in the history/social studies classroom and two Gateway Assessments |
2. Conducting an Online Multicultural Book Presentation with an Accompanying Student Learning Plan |
3. Developing a 10 Class Curriculum Unit with Original Learning Plans That You Will Teach During the Second Half of the School Year |
4. Participating in regular weekly class Zoom meetings on Mondays at 4:00 |
CLASS SCHEDULE AND TOPICS
August 24 Curriculum Frameworks and Teaching Methods
August 31 Teaching Multicultural Histories and Herstories with Culturally Relevant Materials
September 7 Planning Engaging In-Person and Virtual Learning for Students
September 14 Groupwork and Cooperative Learning
Constitution Day is Celebrated on Thursday September 17
September 21 Teaching with Primary Sources
September 28 Writing in History and Social Studies
October 5 Literature, Picture Books and Reading Strategies
October 12 Teaching about Controversy Using Dialog and Debate
Monday October 12: Indigenous Peoples Day/Also known as Columbus Day
October 19 Role-Plays, Simulations, Drama
October 26 Virtual Curriculum Unit Meetings
November 2 Teaching Digital and Media Literacy and Student Research
November 9 Civic Ideals and Community Service Learning
November 16 Virtual Sharing Curriculum Units/Self-Assessments
Best Practice Teaching Methods
Note: All Best Practice Teaching Methods are based on the principle of using Active Learning to engage students through large and small group discussions, interactive note taking, text and visual sources, materials other than the voice of the teacher, and other student involvement strategies.
Group workor Cooperative Learning (includes students working in pairs, trios, and small groups; cooperative learning using a specific cooperative learning structure).
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Research (includes using primary, secondary, and Internet sources correctly to analyze historical and contemporary events. |
Multicultural Histories & Herstories (the experiences of people of color, women, working classes, non-western societies and cultures, and others typically excluded from the school curriculum). |
Primary Sources (using first person narratives, photographs, newspaper articles, speeches, artwork, economic data, articles, diaries, audio and video recordings, songs, movies, literacy works, orother sources as part of a lesson.
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Writing (incorporating students’ own creative writing and self-expression). |
Literature (children’s and adolescent fiction and nonfiction, adult fiction and nonfiction, and poetry)
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Civic Engagement & CSL (involvement in social issues and community life, citizen involvement in politics) |
Controversy & Dialog (focus on controversial issues, current events, social problems, origins and problems of democracy, resistance to oppression)
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Technology (including use of computers, interactive websites, learning games, presentation software and other digital tools) |
Drama, Role-Play, Simulation (engagement through historical re-creations, plays, and social simulations)
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