T456 - Integrative Seminar: Teaching Social Studies and Social Responsibility
2 credit hours
This course is the first part of a year long seminar designed to accompany teacher candidates’ clinical experience and student teaching. In this seminar, teacher candidates 1) develop social studies curriculum for implementation in kindergarten though third grade; 2) develop a philosophy for and skills in classroom management; and 3) reflect on and further develop instructional techniques across the curriculum in preparation for student teaching. Simultaneously, the course furthers the language as well as the conceptual thinking skills of all children including English Language Learners and bilingual children. Methods of teaching social studies and classroom management are combined in this course to make explicit the dynamics that shape group life and transform it into a community that nurtures and includes all individuals, whether the group is a classroom, school, neighborhood, city, state, or nation. Teacher candidates examine the connections between effective group management, teaching social studies as well as teaching more broadly in all curricular areas. Special attention is paid to issues of diversity, inclusion, and second language learning in all settings of professional practice.
Programs that require this course:type 04 certificationtype 04 certification, bilingual/esl endorsement