Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Social Science

This accessible and practical teaching resource provides a basis for interpreting and accessing the national curriculum framework to include all pupils. Suggesting an inclusive framework of participation and achievement for all, the book provides

*a range of possible activities designed to be accessible to pupils with diverse individual needs

*reference to the P levels

*help with planning and monitoring the curriculum

*assessment and recording opportunities

*advice on teaching citizenship in a cross-curricular way

*suggestions to develop a...

This new book by Nancy Polette offers 49 short biographical readers theatre plays consisting of three performers discussing the same life, but with slightly different information. It requires students to use their critical thinking, listening, and research skills to determine which of the three tales is true. Each play is accompanied by a short reading list of coordinated children's books and a student research activity.

The plays feature women from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including minority group representatives. Molly Brown, Barbara Jordan, Rosa Parks,...

Clio in the Classroom makes accessible the content, key themes and concepts, and pedagogical techniques of U.S. women's history for all secondary school and college teachers. Editors Carol Berkin, Margaret S. Crocco, and Barbara Winslow have brought together a diverse group of educators to provide information and tools for those who are constructing a new syllabus or revitalizing an...

Clio in the Classroom makes accessible the content, key themes and concepts, and pedagogical techniques of U.S. women's history for all secondary school and college teachers. Editors Carol Berkin, Margaret S. Crocco, and Barbara Winslow have brought together a diverse group of educators to provide information and tools for those who are constructing a new syllabus or revitalizing an...

Now you can draw from the millions of digital items available in the Library of Congress American Memory Collection to enhance your classroom lessons. This book shows you how to effectively use the vast American Memory Collections in all types of coursework to enhance your instructional program. Lessons are organized alphabetically; all align with curriculum standards from AASL and McREL.

This thought-provoking book provides the tools to incorporate genealogy and family history into the classroom curriculum and create dynamic learning. It discusses the purpose for using genealogy in the classroom and offers the fundamentals of genealogy to make instructors comfortable teaching this topic. The book focuses on ways teachers can make personal history meaningful through personal, community, and national perspectives.

The best way to teach democracy has been the subject of an ongoing debate for 2,500 years. Unlike most books about teaching democracy, this one spends more time on how to teach democracy than the what and why of teaching democracy. It punctures the irony of teaching democracy by lectures and superior teachers. In its place, this book provides a variety of illustrations for the teaching of democracy in an experiential and egalitarian fashion. The introduction presents a theoretical and analytical framework of democracy and democratic pedagogy. The six chapters cover topics such as...