Secondary Methods: Making Social Studies Meaningful 7-12

Catalog description

This course is designed to help provide prospective Social Studies teachers with the opportunity to develop curriculum materials and plan instruction for teaching Social Studies to students with a wide range of abilities. Students will use formal and informal methods of assessment to design effective instruction to improve student learning. They will practice differentiating instruction to meet the needs, skills, and interests of diverse students. Students will include creative and appropriate uses of technology as a tool to enhance student learning in science. Students will reflect on their own instructional practices and articulate a personal development plan to improve their own teaching in Social Studies and to expand their own teaching repertoire to facilitate student achievement.