Social Studies In The Elementary School

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Provides students with an overview of the field of social studies, of selected issues in the field, and of best practice strategies for teaching social studies to elementary school children. Encourages participants to reflect on social studies knowledge, skills and dispositions, how students learn these most effectively, and how best to teach social studies. Includes a field-based experiential component. No undergraduate students may be enrolled in any of these undergraduate courses until they have been admitted to teacher education. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring. Prerequisite(s): EDCI 36201 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF C Course Learning Outcomes 1. Students will work to identify the most important social studies knowledge, skills and dispositions. 2. Investigate how students learn most effectively. 3. Utilize their new understandings to draw conclusions about what constitutes powerful teaching in the social studies. View Class Schedule