SS Disciplines
Students will develop their own theory of how the economic systems work.
What is a downfall of NOT teaching economics to elementary students?
Issue centered or problem centered questions that have been controversial across cultures and generations. (Example: Who is responsible for the poor?)
What are enduring questions?
Muslim, working class, northerner, African American
What are ways people describe their identities?
Shortcomings such as causing confusion, trivializing learning, and treating important topics superficially.
What are pitfalls of integration?
What is evaluating?
Simulations, activities, and games are strategies for teaching economics in a real-life experiences with...
Creates new knowledge and addresses mistaken understandings.
What is inquiry?
A teacher creates a space in the room where students have access to supplies.
What is an appropriate way to support student differences?
A unit that joins two subject areas together.
What is a fusion unit?
Formative assessments, informal feedback, observations, anecdotal data, checks for understanding, etc.
What are types of assessments that should be done as students are learning a new skill or new content?
This is an essential step that must be completed after a simulation (activity or game) is over.
What is debriefing?
Creating and facilitating students interest in a subject.
What is an essential component of the success of inquiry?
An educational strategy used in schools to ensure high quality instruction, monitor student progress, and provide extra support for students who are struggling.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
Small, temporary groups of students who work together for a specific purpose for a brief period.
What are cooperative groups?
Assessments geared toward finding out students' abilities to apply knowledge and skills successfully in meaningful tasks so that they use what they have learned.
What are authentic assessments?
Creating an awareness of social problems, promoting a refinement of analysis skills, and helping children relate school learning to life outside school are goals of this way to teach civic thinking.
What is using current events?
What can connect citizenship learning to community civic life experience?
What is service learning activities?
Scaffolding, peer tutoring, multiple information sources ...
What are supports for diverse learners?
This instructional strategy helps to direct the students' thinking as they make connections between an activity and the content of the lesson.
Specific type of assessment technique that allows teachers to learn about students, monitor their progress, and determine areas for improvement.
What is observation?
Movement, Regions, Human-environment interaction, Location, Place
What are the 5 themes of geography?
The knowledge, attitudes, and skills of social studies are the foundational aspects of this.
What is a democratic citizen?
Calling on a student (with the right supports in place) who doesn't necessarily WANT to answer for a particular reason or has a diverse need that keeps that student from wanting to answer.
What is setting high expectations for all learners?
This is a strategy to employ when discussing controversial (age appropriate) events or decisions in the classroom. The skills needed for this are dispositional: civility, tolerance, analytical from multiple perspectives.
What is deliberation?
This is needed in a performance assessment to serve as instructional objectives, set high expectations for students, and outlines the skills students are expected to learn.
What is performance criteria?