Teaching Social Studies

<p>Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers, features tasks designed to take preservice<br/>teachers deep into schools in general and into social studies education in particular. Organized around<br/>Joseph Schwab's commonplaces of education and recognizing the role of inquiry as a preferred pedagogy in<br/>social studies, the book offers a series of short chapters that highlight learners and learning, subject matter,<br/>teachers and teaching, and school context.<br/>The 42 chapters describe tasks that the authors assign to their methods students as either in‐class or as<br/>outside‐of‐class assignments. The components of each chapter are:<br/> Summary of the task<br/> Description of the exercise (i.e., what students are to do, the necessary resources, the timeframe for completion, grading criteria)<br/> Description of how students respond to the activity<br/> Description of how the task fits into the overall course<br/> List of readings and references<br/> Appendix that supplements the task description</p>