Youth are an ever-present component of conversations about culture, interconnectedness, and its effects, especially characterized as readily consuming all that globalization has to offer them. However, opportunities to acknowledge and legitimize the civic experiences youth have and the contributions they make to society have been overlooked in our…

Teachers of history (like all teachers) have a tool kit that holds all their methods and techniques and that allows them to construct a proper history lesson. This article proposes putting a tool into this kit that is generally missing from its contents. This tool supposedly belongs to the tool kit of a different subject teacher: the teacher of…

Practice-based teacher education is poised to improve teacher education by focusing on interns' enactment of complex teaching practices and helping them develop these professional skills. However, much of this work has yet to study the trajectory of learning between university training and field experiences. This article explores seven history and…

Students often report that social studies is their most boring and least favorite subject. As a child, Woodrow Wilson was bored by history, later describing his early studies as "one damn fact after another." Of course, Wilson went on to become an eminent historian, but only after he learned to reach beyond the "closed catechism" of "questions…

The "Multiple Intelligences, Curriculum and Assessment Project" at University College Cork was a collaborative project carried out between 1995 and 1999. The key research question focused on whether Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences could be applied to, and enhance, aspects of curriculum and assessment at primary and…

This paper describes strategies used by the authors to assist preservice social studies teachers with understanding and applying models and practices for effectively integrating technology into their future classrooms--thus, strengthening the link between technology and pedagogy (or technological pedagogical content knowledge). Efforts with…

The paper takes the position that if value inquiry in the social studies is to become something more than a mere fad'' it will have to be grounded upon a sound rationale from which appropriate curricular designs and teaching strategies can be developed. (Author)

A framework for teaching critical thinking skills is presented, and specific strategies that can be used at key places in this framework are outlined. The framework requires that teachers employ direct, systematic instruction in critical thinking skills prior to, during, and following student introduction to these skills. (RM)

This is the first of twenty-five How To Do It guides which offer practical classroom techniques for elementary and secondary social studies teachers. Classroom techniques on how to use a motion picture in a social studies classroom is the focus of this bulletin. Information is included on reasons and purposes for using a film and step-by-step…

The complete lesson enables the teacher to relate teaching strategies to levels of cognitive behavior, and stems from the belief that higher levels of cognitive behavior are developed only after a learner first acquires information and then puts that information to use. (Author)

The major emphasis of this pamphlet is on helping teachers obtain government publications to use in their social studies classrooms. These publications have much to offer to social studies teachers due to their inexpensiveness, reliability, and availability; their civic value which is high; and their provision of an opportunity for teachers to…

Suggestions for implementing oral reports in social studies elementary and secondary classrooms are summarized in this guide. The bulletin offers brief sections on the value of oral reporting; establishment of criteria for oral reports; selection of a topic which is related to the unit under study; the scheduling of reports; various types of…

Since the primary objective of individualized instruction is to match instructional patterns with learning styles, five alternative learning style patterns are examined. (DE)

A constant interaction and interdependence exists between ecological and social systems. This paper recommends that teachers: (1) first focus students' attention on their cultural, natural, and social surroundings; (2) teach students the relationship between the school's and the community's social environments; (3) utilize community resources…

Trend identification, future projections, future models, and policy creation are discussed in this article, which cites the need for developing and testing teaching approaches that facilitate student thinking about the future and future consequences. (JB)