Instructional Social Studies
General
Prefix
ED
Course Number
412
Course Level
Undergraduate
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
College of Education and Learning Design
Description
Methodology, assessment, the needs of diverse learners, approaches to inquiry, and issues of curriculum, purpose and democratic classrooms in elementary social studies programs.
Prerequisites
Credits
Min
3
Max
3
Repeatable
No
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
No
Cultural Diversity
No
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Generate conceptions of what it means to teach social studies, including critical debates within the field and develop rationale for positions taken on stated issues.
Outcome
Synthesize data that demonstrates how assessment informs instruction and implement a variety of assessment strategies.
Outcome
Summarize data from global news and information resources and interpret personal and social biases.
Outcome
Distinguish planning strategies that demonstrate the ability to acquire and implement multi-cultural, gender fair inclusive learning tasks and assessments that speak to social and geo-political issues.
Outcome
Support students as they collect and classify historical knowledge for the purpose of developing a context for learning world history and cultural geography.