Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies for pre-service social studies teachers. This fully updated text includes new topics and assessment examples, expanded discussions of the teaching methods, and guidance on differentiating lessons for multiple learning levels. Part 1 offers the foundations for teaching and learning in a social studies classroom and explores contextual, theoretical, and policy factors that all teachers need to consider before entering the learning environment. Part 2 delivers a range of comprehensive strategies for providing instruction that is appropriate for meeting learning targets, helping all students learn, and fostering a classroom learning environment.

Features of the third edition include:

  • A list of goals before each chapter presenting an overview of the chapter’s content focus and providing an outline for the chapter review
  • New discussions of emerging topics such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), remote learning, social and emotional learning, social media, culturally responsive teaching, and culturally sustaining pedagogies
  • Expanded discussion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice; anti-biased teaching; and student identities, including LGBTQ+, racial, and ethnic identities
  • A "Reality Check" feature providing directions for integrating field-based experiences into the chapters and contextualizing the ideas in the book for a classroom setting
  • Each chapter in Part 2 (Chapters 5–11) has been expanded to include ideas for motivating students to learn and advice around supporting emerging multilingual learners
  • Chapters 5–11 include the feature "Making Your Lesson More Meaningful for Multilingual Learners," which provides updated ideas—based on current research and theories about learning language—for engaging multilingual learners, specific for each instructional strategy
  • Expanded discussion of Inquiry Learning and the Inquiry Design Model (IDM)
  • New examples of assessments and suggestions for differentiating instruction for different learning levels

Combining learning theories with practical strategies, this fully updated new edition is the go-to, all-inclusive guide to the social studies classroom for pre-service and in-service teachers. Online Support Materials include additional lesson plan and unit plan examples, additional information about the Inquiry Design Model, state requirements for the social studies, and further reading suggestions.

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Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies for pre-service social studies teachers. This fully updated text includes new topics and assessment examples, expanded discussions of the teaching methods, and guidance on differentiating lessons for multiple learning levels. Part 1 offers the foundations for teaching and learning in a social studies classroom and explores contextual, theoretical, and policy factors that all teachers need to consider before entering the learning environment. Part 2 delivers a range of comprehensive strategies for providing instruction that is appropriate for meeting learning targets, helping all students learn, and fostering a classroom learning environment.

Features of the third edition include:

  • A list of goals before each chapter presenting an overview of the chapter’s content focus and providing an outline for the chapter review
  • New discussions of emerging topics such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), remote learning, social and emotional learning, social media, culturally responsive teaching, and culturally sustaining pedagogies
  • Expanded discussion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice; anti-biased teaching; and student identities, including LGBTQ+, racial, and ethnic identities
  • A "Reality Check" feature providing directions for integrating field-based experiences into the chapters and contextualizing the ideas in the book for a classroom setting
  • Each chapter in Part 2 (Chapters 5–11) has been expanded to include ideas for motivating students to learn and advice around supporting emerging multilingual learners
  • Chapters 5–11 include the feature "Making Your Lesson More Meaningful for Multilingual Learners," which provides updated ideas—based on current research and theories about learning language—for engaging multilingual learners, specific for each instructional strategy
  • Expanded discussion of Inquiry Learning and the Inquiry Design Model (IDM)
  • New examples of assessments and suggestions for differentiating instruction for different learning levels

Combining learning theories with practical strategies, this fully updated new edition is the go-to, all-inclusive guide to the social studies classroom for pre-service and in-service teachers. Online Support Materials include additional lesson plan and unit plan examples, additional information about the Inquiry Design Model, state requirements for the social studies, and further reading suggestions.

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Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management

Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management

by Bruce E. Larson
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management

Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management

by Bruce E. Larson

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Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies for pre-service social studies teachers. This fully updated text includes new topics and assessment examples, expanded discussions of the teaching methods, and guidance on differentiating lessons for multiple learning levels. Part 1 offers the foundations for teaching and learning in a social studies classroom and explores contextual, theoretical, and policy factors that all teachers need to consider before entering the learning environment. Part 2 delivers a range of comprehensive strategies for providing instruction that is appropriate for meeting learning targets, helping all students learn, and fostering a classroom learning environment.

Features of the third edition include:

  • A list of goals before each chapter presenting an overview of the chapter’s content focus and providing an outline for the chapter review
  • New discussions of emerging topics such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), remote learning, social and emotional learning, social media, culturally responsive teaching, and culturally sustaining pedagogies
  • Expanded discussion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice; anti-biased teaching; and student identities, including LGBTQ+, racial, and ethnic identities
  • A "Reality Check" feature providing directions for integrating field-based experiences into the chapters and contextualizing the ideas in the book for a classroom setting
  • Each chapter in Part 2 (Chapters 5–11) has been expanded to include ideas for motivating students to learn and advice around supporting emerging multilingual learners
  • Chapters 5–11 include the feature "Making Your Lesson More Meaningful for Multilingual Learners," which provides updated ideas—based on current research and theories about learning language—for engaging multilingual learners, specific for each instructional strategy
  • Expanded discussion of Inquiry Learning and the Inquiry Design Model (IDM)
  • New examples of assessments and suggestions for differentiating instruction for different learning levels

Combining learning theories with practical strategies, this fully updated new edition is the go-to, all-inclusive guide to the social studies classroom for pre-service and in-service teachers. Online Support Materials include additional lesson plan and unit plan examples, additional information about the Inquiry Design Model, state requirements for the social studies, and further reading suggestions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138846784
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/10/2016
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 326
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bruce E. Larson is Professor of Social Studies and Secondary Education at Western Washington University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART 1: Foundations for Teaching and Learning Social Studies

Chapter 1: The Social Studies

Chapter 2: The Learner, and The Classroom Learning Community

Chapter 3: Preparing Learning Targets and Assessing Student Learning

Chapter 4: Long And Short Range Planning

PART 2: Instructional Strategies For Social Studies

Chapter 5: Lecture And Interactive Presentations

Chapter 6: Questioning

Chapter 7: Concept Formation

Chapter 8: Cooperative Learning

Chapter 9: Simulations, Role-Play, And Dramatization

Chapter 10: Discussion and Debate

Chapter 11: Inquiry and Student-Directed Investigations

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