Elementary Social Studies Constructing A Powerful Approach To Teaching And Learning

The fully updated fifth edition of Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. Organized around four commonplaces of education-learners and learning subject matter teachers and teaching and classroom environment-and deeply rooted in inquiry-based teaching and learning this book deeply probes the basic elements of quality instruction-planning implementation and assessment-always with the goal of creating and supporting students who are motivated engaged and thoughtful. Book features and updates to the fifth edition include: • New guidance on tackling controversial issues in the social studies classroom. • Fully revised chapter on creating a genuine learning community which now addresses socio-emotional learning and family involvement in the classroom. • New perspectives on the importance of teaching for social justice. • Increased attention to the C3 Framework for state social studies standards. • Chapters on using the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) to understand inquiry-based teaching and learning and to develop IDM inquiries. • Real-classroom narratives that introduce chapters and provide in-depth access to teaching and learning contexts. • Practical curriculum and resource suggestions for the social studies classroom. • End-of-chapter summaries and annotated teaching resources. By blending the theoretical and the practical this book is essential reading for pre-service and in-service social studies teachers. |Elementary Social Studies Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning