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Teaching Methods: Elementary Social Studies –
med555
(3 credits)
This methods course is designed for elementary educators who teach social studies in the K–8 classroom. Participants learn to facilitate student-centered, differentiated learning. Participants explore hands-on strategies for designing and implementing cross-curricular work, integrating literacy, creating assessments, and incorporating 21st-century technology to engage learners.
This graduate-level course is 6
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Social Studies: Thinking Skills and Technology
- Determine strategies to promote creative and analytical thinking in social studies.
- Create social studies instruction that supports learning through multiple perspectives.
- Create a classroom environment that motivates students to learn social studies.
- Integrate technology to support student-centered learning in social studies.
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Social Studies: Designing and Implementing Assessments
- Design formal and informal social studies assessments.
- Utilize additional ways of monitoring and measuring students’ progress in social studies.
- Differentiate between formative and summative assessments.
- Differentiate the varied types of assessments.
- Demonstrate understanding of assessment terminology.
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Social Studies: Integrating Literacy
- Utilize writing activities to enhance and reinforce comprehension of content.
- Determine ways of using quality trade book literature in lessons and throughout units.
- Evaluate textbooks and technological resources for use in the social studies classroom.
- Integrate literacy materials, skills, and strategies into social studies instruction.
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Review
- All objectives apply.
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Social Studies: Designing and Implementing Instruction
- Develop instruction that connects social studies to other core disciplines.
- Adapt social studies instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners.
- Create social studies instruction that aligns to state and national standards.
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Social Studies: Purpose and Place
- Determine the role civic values should play in social studies curricula.
- Identify the major themes of the National Social Studies Standards.
- Evaluate the pros and cons of standards-based education.
- Explain why all students should learn social studies.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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