Mar 29, 2024  
2021-2022 Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SPEE 5720 Teaching Social Studies


This course is designed to develop the critical literary skills of pre-service teachers who will be working with diverse learners in a school setting. Throughout, the social studies are defined in an interdiscliplinary context, which includes history, geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, and economics. The major focus is the exploration of methods that will enable the teacher to weave the social studies throughout the curriculum as well as the development of critical thinking skills to meet the diverse learning needs of each pupil. The course also explores connections between the social studies and other curricular subjects such as math, science, language arts, and the fine and performing arts. A thematic and multi-cultural approach is stressed with an emphasis placed upon the social studies as a means of understanding the diversity and unity of peoples and their societies worldwide. Teacher candidates also practice a variety of teaching methods that reflect multiple intelligences and respect diversity. Finally, teacher candidates develop and demonstrate thematic units that utilize a multicultural approach to social studies and that include real-world, social problem-solving projects.
Credits: 2.0