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Social Studies

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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Social Studies

Current Reality vs the Future....By Lynn Berry
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Current Realities and Threats

In Social Studies Today
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Perhaps the Biggest Threat to Social Studies today is time.

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Spending that time prepping for the test...

Seems more IMPORTANT!?!
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More often than not, Social Studies is

BORING!
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What On Earth Can Be Done?!?

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Solutions....

  • Professional Development
  • Going beyond the textbook
  • Utilizing Inquiry
  • Integration
  • Using Arts and Technology
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What can the future hold?

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Classrooms can look like...

  • Using quality literature
  • Engaged students
  • Project Based Assessments
  • Quality Intregration
  • Collaboration
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"Teach about what matters. Our job is to excite students about the world to help them see the role that they can play in making society more equal and just. To help them express ideas powerfully, to see that social studies is about real people's lives and their relationship to nature".
-Bill Bigelow in Education Weekly

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Ready, Set, GO!

Together, we can DO THIS!
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