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Bring Learning Alive!
Methods to Transform Middle and High School Social Studies Instruction
The Beginning
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Being a Good Social Studies Teacher
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Theory and Researched Based
1. Multiple Intelligences (p. 10)
2. Cooperate Interaction (p. 15)
3. Spiral Curriculum (p.16)
4. Understanding by Design
5. Nonlinguistic Presentation (p. 96)
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Multiple Intelligences
• Howard Gardner• Seven Intelligences• We all learn, but we do it differently
– Differentiation• Tap more than one to achieve maximum le
vel of learning
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Cooperative Interaction
• Elizabeth Cohen– Higher achievement
• Johnson and Johnson• Cooperative Learning Strategies• Learning from each other
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Spiral Curriculum
• Jerome Bruner• Step-by-step-discovery• Everybody learns. They do not need the
teacher once they are started down a path.
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Understanding by Design
• Grant Wiggins • Jay McTighe• Backward Design• Lesson Plan• Unit Plan
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Nonlinguistic Representation
• Robert Marzano• Graphic Organizers• Mental Images• Movement
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Find an
elbow
buddy
Discuss something you have learned thus far.
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Six Types of Activities
• Visual discovery (p. 28)– How have I done this tonight?
• Social Studies Skill Builder (p. 38)• Experiential Exercise (p. 46)• Writing for understanding (p. 56)• Response Groups (p. 66)• Problem Solving Groupwork (p. 76)
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Why Use This Approach?
• Different from traditional teaching• How the past is connected to the present• Teachers need guidance on how to create• Use critical thinking skills, students need
to become active learners.• Students must be responsible for their own
learning
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• More time to work together• Need realistic ways to teach social studies
from a variety of perspectives• Teachers need to nurture their zest for tea
ching.
