Engaging in Document Analysis: The Center for Gifted Education Social Studies Curriculum
The social studies units developed by the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary cover a wide range of topics while maintaining consistent models for understanding issues, documents, and artifacts. All of the units emphasize development of understanding of abstract, interdisciplinary concepts, including systems, cause and effect, and change over time. The units also place heavy emphasis on higher order reasoning, historical analysis using primary sources, and in-depth study of social studies content related to various strands of state and national standards. An emphasis on the development of student skills in the areas of discussion, writing, and research is embedded in the units.
The workshop will engage participants in activities around the teaching models employed in the units, including a concept development model, the Paul model of reasoning, and primary source analysis. The ways in which these teaching models are employed within different units across the range of grade levels will also be explored. In addition, participants will have opportunities for small group discussions of the specific content of the different units.
Dates: June 25-27, 2007
Location: The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Cost: $295 per person
URL: www.cfge.wm.edu/summerinstitute.php
Contact: cfge@wm.edu
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National Council for the Social Studies
