Instruction and Pedagogy
Literacy Coaching
Submitted by TimDaly on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 11:50amIn response to the need to support adolescents as they acquire and use literacy in and out of school, many districts in the United States are hiring "literacy coaches" to lead school-based professional development of subject area teachers in middle and high schools. In a project supported by the Carnegie Corporation, the International Reading Association has joined with the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Council for the Social Studies, and the National Science Teachers Association to delineate standards for what effective literacy coaches must know and be able to do. --> read more »
A Vision of Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies: Building Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy
A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
Rationale
Study About Religions in the Social Studies Curriculum
A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies
Prepared by the Religion in the Schools Committee and Approved by the NCSS Board of Directors, 1984.
Revised by the Curriculum Committee and Approved by the NCSS Board of Directors, 1998.
National Council for the Social Studies, in its Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, declares that: --> read more »
Powerful and Authentic Social Studies
American Public University-Special Topic: Teaching New American History
Teaching with Documents
Related:
Notable Tradebooks for Young People
The books that appear in these annotated book lists were evaluated and selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book Council (CBC). --> read more »
War and Terrorism
Current Events: Iraq and 9/11
Global educators respond to the possibility of war with Iraq by having students:
- Learn up to date historical, political, economic, and geographic background of the conflict;
- Recognize stereotypes and misinformation they may have about Iraqis and other people in the region;
