Teaching Elementary Social Studies - Softcover

DUPLASS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 049581282X ISBN 13: 9780495812821

Publisher: Wadworth, 2010

Synopsis

Written for the elementary social studies methods course, this ""interactive"" program features a combined textbook-workbook that is thoroughly integrated with a dynamic website. To accommodate the visual preferences of today's college students, the layout of the print text features a larger-than-usual font, bulleted lists, and contemporary graphics. The program's interactive approach and flexibility allow instructors to model the kinds of teaching principles and practices that students will want to use in their own elementary school classrooms. These principles and practices are integrated throughout the text and include active-learning strategies, application of constructivist principles, a focus on big ideas and thinking skills, use of the Internet, and modeling of best practices and performance-based assessments (based on INTASC and NCATE standards). As a result, the book serves as a springboard for classroom activities, website explorations, and/or instructor-led activities.

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Review:

"It appears from my review of the TOC, Professor's Preface, Student Introduction, and Units 1 & 2 that the layout, language, and resources provided in this text will make lectures and assignments less formidable on both sides of the desk. In these regards, it is superior to the text I currently use. Based on my review, and having scanned the entire manuscript, the goals and approaches in the Preface have been achieved."The interactive approach of the text is stellar in that it is critical for teachers to experience 'how' they should teach. It focuses the strategy (List, Group, and Label) with teachers' in-class participation. Many professors will become aware of this effective way to get teachers to integrate theory with practice (in their presence) and to generalize instruction of specific strategies to their classrooms."

About the Author:

James A. Duplass (Ph.D., St. Louis University) is a professor at the University of South Florida (USF), a Carnegie I urban university. The social studies program at USF is NCATE and NCSS accredited, and much of the material for this book is a result of research to develop a new curriculum for social studies education. The author has published numerous articles on social studies instruction, served as editor of a regional journal, and authored a book, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHING: STANDARDS: METHODS, AND BEST PRACTICES (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Dr. Duplass teaches elementary and middle school social studies methods courses to undergraduate and graduate students and a philosophical foundation of social studies education course for doctoral students.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadworth
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 049581282X
• ISBN 13: 9780495812821
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 464