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who have adopted the text, Teaching
Elementary Social Studies: What Every Teacher
Should Know for use in the classroom in the
semester the book is adopted.
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Welcome!
• To Teaching Elementary Social Studies
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Required Text
• Teaching Elementary Social Studies: What Every Teacher Should
Know
• By Professor James A. Duplass
• Houghton Mifflin Company
• 2004 edition
• http://education.college.hmco.com/students
This technology is destined
to revolutionize our
educational system and . . .
in a few years it will supplant
largely, if not entirely, the
use of text-books. Thomas
Edison on the invention of
film in 1922
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Internet Site
• Websites. Your text will contain a large number
of Internet links that you will want to access.
Rather than type each one, you can go to the
following website and click on the addresses.
• Graphic Organizers. In addition, you can
download the Graphic Organizers that appear in
the Appendix of the text.
• Go to
http://education.college.hmco.com/students
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Course Objectives
• Through readings, activities, observation, assignments,
observation, and class participation, students will:
– Be exposed to a variety of teaching methods (critical thinking,
lecture, cooperative learning, concept formation, simulation,
etc.) used in social studies education.
– Acquire key concepts and terms of social studies and social
studies education.
– Develop an understanding of the unique role of the teacher of
social studies in the intellectual, emotional, and civic
development of elementary school-aged children.
– Develop critical thinking skills and the reflective temperament
necessary to be a teacher of social studies.
– Employ instructional planning and computer skills.
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Course Sequence
Date
DA
Y
S
PLANNED TOPIC SEQUENCE
Read the Topic by the assigned
date
ASSIGNMENT DUE
Assignments: The Assignments are listed in the textbook and in this syllabus. You should follow the modifications/elaborations below. You
should plan specific questions to be asked about assignments at the class preceding the due date. Go to the book’s website and download a
set of the Graphic Organizers and always bring them to class.
A-M students are assigned the topic “Heroes” and the reading passage in Topic 17
N-Z students are assigned the topic “Community” and the reading passage in Topic 17
T
Introduction:
How to Use This Book &
Unit I: Introduction to Social Studies
All Assignments must be of a quality that they could be
presented to a principal at a school while interviewing for a job
and use vocabulary and concepts from the textbook.
T
Student’s Introduction & Internet Resources
Topic 1: What is Social Studies Education?
Topic 2: A Practical Framework
Topic 3: Expanding Communities & Core
Knowledge
Topic 4: Multicultural Education
Assignment 2.1: Text Structures – 25 points
Typed one page, single spaced
The assignment should include a listing of each text structure
and an example of each based on your assigned reading
passage of Heroes or Community.
Assignment 2.2: Web of Social Studies – 25 points
One page, can be neatly and artistically drawn Draw a web
graphically depicting your understanding of the structure of
Social Studies Education using the major terms from the Topic
2, section “Goals, Concepts & Vocabulary.”
Assignment 2.3: Lesson Concept Organizer – 0 points
Bring Copy to Class
Student Assessment: Attendance
• You should be passionate about teaching
and want to learn as much as you can .
• The Professor uses class time to illuminate
and develop ideas that either may not easily
or cannot be fully developed in a textbook.
• It is advisable that you attend every class. If
you miss class you will need to find out what
you missed from other students.
• You are expected to ask questions about an
assignment at the class prior to when the
assignment is due.
• Please don’t come late or leave early
because it is disruptive to your fellow
students and the instructor.
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You can bring
a horse to
water, but you
can't make it
drink
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Classroom Participation
1. Because this course is part of a professional teacher
preparation program, students are expected to adhere
to the highest standards of civility, ethics, and
professional behavior.
2. Class members will treat one another and the instructor
respectfully and with courtesy.
3. Racism, sexism, and other forms of intolerance are
inappropriate in a just, democratic society and
especially in a discipline devoted to the preservation
and expansion of human rights and opportunities to all
people.
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Classroom Participation (cont’d)
• Students, who are disruptive, distracting, inattentive, or
doing other work in class will, at the discretion of the
instructor, be asked to leave class and/or will have their
grade adjusted downward.
• Students who are unable to demonstrate completion of
reading assignments by class participation may, at the
discretion of the instructor, have their grade adjusted
downward.
• Students who are particularly attentive, thoughtful, and
active in the class may, at the discretion of the instructor,
may have their grade adjusted upward.
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Student Assessment: Assignments
• Reading Assignments should be completed prior to the class when
the reading material will be covered. Questions in class should
reflect your having read the material.
• Product Assignments. There are three types of assignments:
– One, the assignment must be prepared in advance of the Topic
being covered in class in order to insure you have a base-line of
information. This assignment can be completed by you based
on a thoughtful reading of the material related to the topic;
– Two, an assignment will be part of an activity that takes place in
the classroom and assumes you have read the related material;
and
– Three, an assignment will be due after the Topic has been
developed in class.
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Student Assessment: Assignments
• If a student is absent on a day when an assignment is due, the
assignment must be mailed to the professor and postmarked the
day before it is due.
• If an unannounced assignment is conducted in class, students who
are absent lose the points for that assignment. In such cases, the
value of either the final project or final exam will be adjusted to
reflect the unannounced assignments value.
• Include your Name, E-mail, Phone #, Assignment Name and
Number and elementary school Grade Level on a cover sheet (or
the first/only page) stapled to the assignment of the assignment.
• Attending every class is the best way to know what is expected for
your assignments and to have all your questions answered about
the assignments.
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Student Assessment: Assignments
1. All work must be typed and submitted on time.
2. The quality (form and substance) is a statement
about you, your professional standards, and
aspirations.
3. Every submission should be created as if it were
to appear in a portfolio that you would submit for
a job interview.
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Honor Policy
• Plagiarism means presenting work done (in whole or in
part) by someone else as if it were one's own.
• Students who plagiarize will be removed from class,
given an FF grade and reported to University authorities
for further disciplinary actions.
• Citing sources for ideas can be a part of every
submission, but the ideas must be transformed into your
original work.
• Former or current students or their assignments may not
be used as a source.
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Final Exam
• The final exam will be a true/false, multiplechoice test based on the presentations in class,
assignments, and textbook readings.
• Careful, thoughtful reading of the book,
attentiveness in class, reflection, and review of
vocabulary and concepts just prior to the exam
should be sufficient preparation for the final
exam
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Student Assessment: Grades
There is no curve; each student earns each point. If all
students earn all points, everyone will receive an A grade
Grade
A+
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
DF
Percent = Points earned/ 500
100%
99
95
94
93
92
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0
General Rubric for Assignments from Figure 31.2
College Level Rubric For Assignment 31.1
Percent
Task
10
Use of Headings
from the Social Studies Lesson Concept Organizer, Reading Options, Instructional
Sequence, Decision Making, Values Analysis, Problem Solving, etc.
30
Application of Concepts and Use of Vocabulary from the Text
20
Logical Sequence, Completeness & Detail
10
Creativity in Selection of Content, Resources and Strategies
10
Attainment of Goals
10
Presentation & Aesthetics
It must be typed, single spaced and no more than four pages, excluding any
Graphic Organizers (graphic organizers, etc. should always appear as they would at
the end of a lesson, i.e. completed) or other kinds of attachments like maps, etc.
10
Grammar & Punctuation
100
Total
Students with Special Needs
• Students who need special accommodations due to any
disability that may affect the learning process should
provide documentation for any services/accommodation
that is needed by the second class meeting.
• Students who seek to be absent under the University
Policy on Religious Observances, must give notice at
the first class meeting by providing the professor with a
date and name of the observance.
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Syllabus: Please Complete the
Information Form and Sign
Any
questions ?
Even if you are
on the right track
you’ll get run
over if you just
sit there
–Will Rogers
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