EDU 657 - Instruction and Assessment Strategies for Teaching Social Studies to All Children

This course is designed to enable current and prospective teachers to acquire instructional strategies and assessment skills to teach social studies to elementary school children. It will develop knowledge, concepts, values, and critical thinking skills through the creation of lesson plans and unit themes drawing on disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities. It adapts instructional strategies to meet the needs of the diverse range of student abilities. Specifically, it includes provision for addressing the learning requirements of children with special needs and with varied linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Students are taught how to use technology to enhance learning and research. A basic foundation of this course is to create an awareness and appreciation of the multicultural dimensions of social studies instruction. It stresses the development of social skills involved in collaborative instruction and cooperative instruction and cooperative learning. Successful completion of course objectives will be measured through varied and authentic means of assessment. Field observation experiences and Task Stream electronic portfolio are required.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed