Powerful social studies instruction involves -Answer- meaningful, integrated, valuebased, challenging, and active teaching and learning We want all students to be working within... -Answer- their zone of proximal development purpose of social studies instruction -Answer- teach students how to be part of the community, where they came from, and to teach them to be more informed about the world around them civic education -Answer- knowledge, skills, and democratic dispositions to be active in public life Goals of social studies instruction -Answer- prepare kids to be participatory citizens in all aspects, acquire knowledge from history and social sciences, give them the skills to think and process information, help them develop democratic values, beliefs, and dispositions, and to provide opportunities for civic participation Goals of SS instruction - diagram in text - 4 components -Answer- citizenship and social participation, knowledge and sources of content, skills, values in a democratic society Approaches to civic education -Answer- citizenship transmission, social science/history, reflective inquiry, and social justice citizenship transmission -Answer- give students basic social studies information, like branches of government, 50 states, geographic terms social science/history -Answer- teach students major concepts in history and social studies reflective inquiry -Answer- encourage students to be thinking to make decisions and solve problems social justice -Answer- students learn to fix injustice and inequality child-centered civic education helps... -Answer- improve children's sense of self Which approach to civic education is best? -Answer- Teachers should bring each approach into the classroom over time scope -Answer- what is covered (standards) sequence -Answer- when it is covered you will always have to follow _________ , but not _______________ -Answer- scope, but not sequence How do you use scope and sequence together? -Answer- to indicate what is being taught how do you base a scope and sequence pattern? -Answer- off of students' developmental needs Planning is a way to __________ -Answer- grow as an effective practitioner What can you use to help you know where students are? -Answer- pre-assessment What does lack of planning cause? -Answer- classroom management problems and wasted time In what way are teachers decision makers? -Answer- They decide what units to include during the year and in daily lesson plans Teachers who plan are ____________ -Answer- more likely to be satisfied with teaching and remain in the profession Writing lesson plans helps you to _______ -Answer- feel more organized and prepared to face students, feel more confident, remember what is supposed to happen better, contribute to student learning long-range planning -Answer- having an idea of where you are heading. Laying out the year and looking at the big picture by knowing your scope and sequence how do you begin long-range planning -Answer- by looking at your grade-level NGSSS, your textbook, and creating a rough outline of the entire curriculum, dividing content amongst the number of weeks in the school year units -Answer- individual chunks of time that are the main divisions of the curriculum What is the best approach to lesson/unit planning? -Answer- backwards design Steps of backward design -Answer- 1. know end goals for student learning 2. come up with how you want to assess students/how they will demonstrate understanding (acceptable evidence) 3. plan activities, learning experiences, and instruction that will bring students to their goals Thematic units -Answer- everything you teach is centered around one theme