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Welcome to the Professor!

Welcome–2 Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

Copyright Limitations

• Reproduction of these PowerPoint Materials and Graphic Organizers is limited to professors 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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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


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


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.

Course Sequence

Date DAYS

PLANNED TOPIC SEQUENCERead 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 ResourcesTopic 1: What is Social Studies Education?Topic 2: A Practical FrameworkTopic 3: Expanding Communities & Core KnowledgeTopic 4: Multicultural Education

Assignment 2.1: Text Structures – 25 pointsTyped one page, single spacedThe 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 pointsOne 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 pointsBring Copy to Class


You can bring a horse to

water, but you can't make it

drink

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.


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.


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.


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.



• 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.



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.


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.


Final Exam

• The final exam will be a true/false, multiple-choice 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

Grade Percent = Points earned/ 500

A+ 100%

A 99 95

A- 94 93

B+ 92 91

B 90 89

B- 88 87

C+ 86 85

C 84 82

C- 81 80

D+ 79 78

D 77 72

D- 71 70

F 69 0

Student Assessment: Grades

There is no curve; each student earns each point. If all students earn all points, everyone will receive an A grade

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 & AestheticsIt 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

General Rubric for Assignments from Figure 31.2 College Level Rubric For Assignment 31.1


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.


Even if you are on the right track

you’ll get run over if you just

sit there

–Will Rogers

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