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Kathryn L. Roberts; Kristy A. Brugar; Alexander Cuenca – Elementary School Journal, 2024
This article describes a content analysis of 37 Inquiry Design Modules (https://c3teachers.org), conducted with the purpose of identifying the core teaching practices (CTP) necessary to successfully enact them. Although there has been research identifying CTP in other content areas, research on social studies inquiry at the elementary level is an…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Learning Modules, Teaching Methods, Social Studies
Scott Reynolds; Lee J. Rutledge; Jeff Edmison – Region 12 Comprehensive Center, 2020
The Region 12 Comprehensive Center conducted a national scan of formative assessment supports provided by state education agencies. The report presents common themes in formative assessment support, a series of supports by content and grade area as well as by modality of professional learning, and illustrative examples. It also examines…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, State Standards, Teacher Competencies
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Heafner, Tina L.; Handler, Laura K.; Journell, Wayne – Social Education, 2016
Social studies teachers often find themselves in search of professional development that transforms lessons from facts, figures, and boldfaced vocabulary to lessons that develop the sophisticated thinking skills students need to make sense of the social issues of one's everyday world. Furthermore, teachers want their own learning to be similar to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Faculty Development, Program Design, Inquiry
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Smetana, Lara K.; Coleman, Elizabeth R.; Ryan, Ann Marie; Tocci, Charles – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
Loyola University Chicago's Teaching, Learning, and Leading With Schools and Communities (TLLSC) program is an ambitious break from traditional university-based teacher preparation models. This clinically based initial teacher preparation program, fully embedded in local schools and community organizations, takes an ecological perspective on the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Schools of Education
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Jefferson-Copeland, Renee – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2010
For the past 60 years, the Census Bureau has enlisted the support of educators to bring to the community the message of the importance of a complete and accurate count of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau will deliver 2010 census questionnaires to every household in the United States in March 2010. The census questionnaire is composed of only…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Census Figures, Teaching Methods, Social Studies
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Açikalin, Mehmet – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
This article provides an example of a social studies lesson from Turkish educational context in order to facilitate comparison with examples of social studies lessons from other parts of the world. This lesson was recorded in a 7th grade class at a middle school in one of the metropolitan neighborhoods in Istanbul. According to the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Civil Rights, Comparative Education
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Tipple, Bruce E.; Switzer, Kenneth A. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1979
Presents a detailed rationale for the development of learning activities that infuse quantitative concepts and skills into secondary-level social studies classes, outlines the phases of project development, and briefly discusses the content of the learning activities developed by the project staff. (Author/JEG)
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Secondary Education, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The teacher inservice program and materials described here are designed to bring about a higher degree of sophistication in the area of instructional program planning given individual learning situations. The participants in the program translate goals into specific objectives, develop appropriate learning alternatives, rank the alternatives, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Design, Learning Modules
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Easter, Queen Ester – Social Studies Texan, 1992
Argues that the learning module, or learning activity packet (LAP), is effective in changing preconceived attitudes of students and administrators toward history instruction. Suggests that learning modules should be looked at once again because of the mainstreaming of at-risk students. Includes a sample packet on reform movements. (DK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, History Instruction, Individualized Instruction
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The described learning module is designed for teachers who wish to improve their students' skill in map reading and interpretation. The content area is geography. An outline of the table of contents of the module is provided. Activities and resources involved in the use of this product are described. Ordering information for materials used in this…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials, Junior High School Students
City Univ. of New York, NY. Hunter Coll. Bilingual Education Applied Research Unit. – 1978
The central purpose of this manual is to bring the maintenance of cultural diversity into actual practice in the elementary school bilingual classroom. Techniques for implementing multicultural social studies curricula are presented through a series of modules for 15 workshops. These modules have been developed for teacher trainers. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The described learning module is designed for use of secondary school teachers in developing instruction to engage students in rational decision-making on controversial public issues. The scope and sequencing of topics in this module are outlined. Also included are the activities and resources involved in using the module. Ordering information for…
Descriptors: Current Events, Decision Making, Group Discussion, Inservice Teacher Education
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The intent of the teacher education learning module described here is to increase the user's competency in asking questions that will stimulate higher levels of thinking and learning. Seven specific categories of questions are outlined. The focus is on approaches to thorough and thought-provoking questioning, strategies for analyzing the nature of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning
Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD. Applied Physics Lab. – 1993
Results are presented of a project that developed 12 social studies (specifically, directionality and geography) and critical thinking computerized instructional modules using multimedia instruction for students with learning disabilities at the upper elementary and lower intermediate school levels. Seven overarching principles were identified as…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Daily Living Skills, Foods Instruction, Geography
Sinha, Savita; And Others – 1985
The International Environmental Education Program (IEEP) of UNESCO has developed a series of experimental teacher training modules in environmental education. This module focuses on the pre-service training of secondary social science teachers and supervisors in environmental education. Chapter 1 introduces the module and presents specific…
Descriptors: Course Content, Ecology, Environmental Education, Global Approach
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