Social Studies for Primary Teachers ((3 Units))

Catalog description

Prerequisite: EDCI 308 . This course equips primary grade teachers with content knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to teach grades Pk-5 students to be informed and active citizens in classrooms, their community, country, and world. Students will learn critical content related to the guidelines of the Ohio Department of Education and the National Council for the Social Studies standards in social studies education. They will make decisions about what to teach (standards and themes), how to teach (strategies), and which materials best serve the needs of their students (resources). (Formerly 5200:338)