Powerful Social Studies for Elementary Students by Jere Brophy (English) Paperba

Table of Contents

1.Elementary Social Studies: What Is It? What Might It Become?2.How Can I Build a Learning Community that Supports and Engages All Children?3.What Social Studies Planning Tools Will Help Me Teach Social Studies Powerfully?4.What Social Studies Planning Tools Are Available?5.How Can I Teach History Powerfully?6.How Can I Teach Culture, Geography, Sociology, and Anthropology Powerfully?7.How Can I Teach I Teach Economics, Civics and Government, and Psychology Powerfully?8.How Can I Engage Students in Substantive Discourse?9.How Can I Assess Student Learning?10.What Strategies Can Help Me Teach Social Studies Powerfully?11.How Can I Design, Implement, and Evaluate Instructional Activities?12.How Can Social Studies Education Be Made More Powerful through Curricular Integration?13.How Can Social Studies Be Extended to the World Beyond School?14.What Is the Research Base That Informs Ideas about Powerful Social Studies Teaching?

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"This book is a sine qua non compendium of relevant themes for today's social studies education and stands out as a stellar academic beverage worth sipping twice."
"This text goes beyond exploration of effective social studies instruction to examine good pedagogy that transfers to other content areas. It is helpful for teachers just beginning their careers in classrooms, as well as being useful for teacher education students who are eager to step into their own social studies classrooms."

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"This text goes beyond exploration of effective social studies instruction to examine good pedagogy that transfers to other content areas. It is helpful for teachers just beginning their careers in classrooms, as well as being useful for teacher education students who are eager to step into their own social studies classrooms."

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