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>