The authors' contemporary framework uses four commonplaces of education--learners and learning, the subject matter of social studies, teachers and teaching, and classroom learning environment--to help future teachers create powerful learning experiences for their students. The text's teaching/learning model focuses on constructivism, or how new teachers construct their own knowledge. It puts readers into classroom situations with numerous demonstrations of elementary social studies teaching, and provides substance and powerful strategies to help teachers implement today's standards.

Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning in Elementary Social Studies

Business & Money

Grant, S.G.

VanSledright, Bruce

Education & Reference

Cengage Learning'

This text frames and develops a coherent, practical, and engaging approach to teaching and learning elementary social studies. The authors combine the latest research on learning patterns, curriculum structure and presentation, and assessment with practical issues like classroom management, goal establishment, and creative lesson planning. Elementary Social Studies is organized according to four commonplaces of education--learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment--to help teachers create a powerful learning environment for their students. The Second Edition includes additional emphasis on issues of multiculturalism and diversity and teaching in the lower primary grades.

Elementary Social Studies: Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning

Book by Brophy, Jere E., Vansledright, Bruce

Teaching and Learning History in Elementary School

Brophy, Jere E.

Education & Teaching

Teachers College Pr

In Search of America's Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School

Bruce VanSledright shows how young students can benefit from an investigative, inquiry-based approach to the study of history, as called for by the national standards. Addressing important questions about the teaching and learning of history in today’s diverse classrooms, this volume:
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<li> Conveys the results of an innovative teacher-research project, using engaging stories of VanSledright’s classroom experiences.</li>
<li> Provides examples and guidelines, developed from the author’s own fifth-grade classroom, for teaching novices to engage in historical investigations (in contrast to memorizing details in a textbook). </li>
<li> Offers strong evidence that children do have the intellectual capacity to judge the validity, reliability, and perspective of historical documents and images.</li>
<li> Wrestles with a number of issues facing history teachers who wish to embark on ambitious projects with their students that can take them against the grain of policy mandates (such as recall-based, high-stakes testing).</li>
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Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

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