Office Hours
Objectives
The student will:
2. Describe and demonstrate teaching skills specifically related to and appropriate for elementary social studies (e.g. map and globe skills, thinking skills, reference skills, use of tables, charts and graphs, simulations, case studies, role playing, questioning strategies, etc.).
3. Identify and explain the content of disciplines presently included in elementary social studies (anthropology, sociology, history, geography, political science, economics, philosophy, and psychology).
4. Identify and describe various themes in teaching elementary social studies (e.g. global education, multicultural education, character education, law, environmental education, citizenship, drug and alcohol education, gender equity, etc.).
5. Identify, describe design, develop, and implement lesson plans that teach others to use data gathering and information processing skills.
7. Identify, describe, and analyze the scope and sequence of social studies programs.
8. Identify and develop strategies to integrate the expressive arts and the social studies.
9. Identify and demonstrate the ability to use a variety of references with regard to elementary social studies.
10. Demonstrate knowledge and use of a variety of evaluation techniques.
11. Identify, describe, design, develop, and implement lesson plans and units that integrate the social science disciplines and other discipline areas of study.
12. Identify and develop strategies that make effective use of technology and integrates interactive media and telecommunications into the social studies (e.g. PowerPoint, the World Wide Web, etc.).
13. Demonstrate knowledge and use of effective current affairs programs.
14. Demonstrate powerful and authentic teaching practices such as providing learners with opportunities to engage in higher order thinking, to explore connections and relationships, to engage in substantive conversations, and to consider ethical dimensions of a topic. (LEA)
15. Design, develop and implement lesson plans that help children acquire the basic knowledge components of social studies.
16. Identify and describe the various individual differences factors that might effect learning in Social Studies.
17. Demonstrate and encourage a positive approach toward individual difference factors within a classroom setting.
18. Identify and describe, the ability to use appropriate classroom management techniques when instructing children.
| August 25 & 26 | Introductions - Lesson Planning & Individual Lesson Plan Assignment |
| September 2 , 8, and 9 |
Inquiry Project & Group Lesson Assignmemt |
| September 15 & 16 | Grade 6 Teach a Lesson & Inquiry Project |
| September 22 & 23 | Group Lesson Assignment & Chapter 3 |
| September 29 & 30 | Grade K, 1, or 2 Teach a Lesson & Documented History Assignment |
| October 6 & 7 | Chapter 4 & Hands on Activities |
| October 13 & 14 | Grade 7 and Hands on
Activities and Map Skills |
| October 20 & 21 M 9:00 - 10:30 AM M 1:00 - 2:30 PM T 4:30 - 6:00 PM |
Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe
Culture & Lifeways 6650 E. Broadway • Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 Phone: 989.775.4750 |
| October 27 & 28 |
Video & Visual Poster Project |
| November 3 & 4 |
Exam #1 Chapters 3, 4 and
MCF & GLCE & Current Events and Core Democratic Values |
| November 10 & 11 |
Grade 3 Teach a Lesson &
Chapter 6 Inquiry |
| November 17 & 18 |
Grade 4, 5, or 8 Teach a
Lesson & Integrating Tech and Language Arts (Chpt. 9) |
| November 24 & 25 |
Chapter 10 & Current
Events Core Values |
| December 1 &
2 |
Evaluation and Assessment |
| December 8 & 9 |
Exam #2: Final Exam -
Chapters 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, MCF & GLCE |
1. More than three (3) unexcused
absences will result in a reduction of your grade by one letter grade.
Work hours, weddings, family events and those of friends will not be
considered
emergencies or excused absences.
2. If you are absent during class presentations, you are
encouraged to contact EDU 343 colleagues to bring you up-to-date.
You are also encouraged to read information in the EDU 343 Blackboard
portal to help you prepare for exams. You are invited to visit
with
Dr. Newby for a brief overview of missed presentations if you
experience
an absence due to illness on the day and time EDU 343 meets. (You
are expected to present a doctor's note for the day of the absence.)
3. An unexcused absence on the day that your group is
to teach will result in no credit for the presentation.
As a preservice teacher, you are expected to submit papers and assignments free of punctuation, grammatical, typing and spelling errors. Two (2) points will be deducted for each type of error. All assignments are to be word processed.