EDC 219 Midterm Questions And Answers Well Defined

What are the 5 Key Trends? - ANSWERSTrend 1: Closing the Opportunity Gap Trend 2: Curriculum standards, national, state, and local Trend 3: Assessment, accountability, and the global achievement gap Trend 4: Democracy Trend 5: Making the literacy social studies connection Trend 1: Closing the Opportunity Gap - ANSWERS- Schools today are resegregating, separating urban poor from suburban middle class - Savage Inequalities - The recognition that some students have a greater opportunity to achieve and this difference in opportunity creates a gap between the achievement of some White and non-White students and between students from lower and higher income families Trend 3: Assessment accountability , and the global achievement gap - ANSWERS- Need to establish academic standards in each subject - Identify strengths and weaknesses in education system Trend 4: Democracy - ANSWERS- Way to being together,: democracy Principles of Democracy: social, moral, and intellectual achievements Principles of democracy ? - ANSWERSsocial, moral, and intellectual achievements Trend 5: Making the literacy social studies connection - ANSWERSIntegrated or disciplinary education to teach SS through reading and writing What are the 6 dimensions of citizenship education? - ANSWERS1. Deliberation 2. Voting and Elections 3. Service Learning and community action 4. Citizenship Knowledge 5. Citizenship values 6. Citizenship dispositions and values - discussion and decision making - probably the most important foundation of democratic citizenship - Need to listen to diverse views here To weigh: as in weighing all the alternatives to make the best decisions - Help students develop their capacities to reason about moral issues -assessing discussion - ANSWERSDeliberation: Voting and elections: - ANSWERSVoting is seen as a culminating activity that comes after thinking with others about the issues and candidates Service and Community action: - ANSWERS-School needs to provide new insights, improves skills, and increased civic mindedness -Students need to learn to be good deliberators, well prepared voters, and generous community service Citizenship Values: - ANSWERSValues define for us what is worth striving for, what is right and desirable, what is important, what is preferred, what constitutes worthy life goals, what may be worth sacrificing one's life for What are the 7 guidelines for teaching diverse classrooms? - ANSWERS1. Culturally responsive instruction 2. Know your "cell phone" 3. Engaging with learners 4. High expectations for learning 5. Flexible groupings 6. Differentiated instruction 7. Multicultural curriculum Culturally responsive instruction includes: - ANSWERS- learning about the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the children in your class and adapt instruction accordingly. Teach in ways that bridge the gap between children's home cultures and school culture. - help children maintain their cultural an linguistic identities while learning the school curriculum Know your "cell phone" - ANSWERS- History begins at home. Teachers need to study their own family history-- its ethnic and linguistic characteristics, social class, religion, social values, gifts, and disabilities. - Our social position locates us in some social groups but not others, thereby placing us closer to some individuals, we tend to share similar social perspectives. -Social position influences our identity but does not determine it, we each deal with situations differently in which we find ourselves. Think about how your own race, gender, sexual orientation, language, social class, and ethnicity shape your interaction with your family members as well as with your classmates and students. Engaging with learners: - ANSWERS-Help students understand the purpose of the information you are teaching. - Provide variety in the ways students acquire information and express what they are learning. - Expand the ways in which students are asked to manipulate and express the information they have gathered. High expectations for learning: - ANSWERS- Expect, assist, and cajole all students to learn the social studies curriculum - Praise all students for their intellectual work, their reasoning and understanding, and provide constructive criticism. - Show students you care and that you will accept nothing less than their best behavior and academic work. Flexible Groups: - ANSWERSGroup children in various ways , whole class, pairs, trios, small groups of four or five--- always with a clear purpose, and change the groups often Avoid fixed groups based on reading ability, prior knowledge, or behavior. During social studies instruction, small grouping of children should be temporary and task oriented. Differentiated Instruction: - ANSWERS- Different children have different needs addressing those different needs is the best way to deal with them equitably. - Similar to individualized instruction but it recognizes the reality of cultural and linguistic diversity in the classroom and the goal of access to good instruction. Preceding guidelines that will result in differentiated instruction: - ANSWERS1.) Teach in ways that bridge the gap between children's home cultures and the school culture 2.) Use an array of information sources so that the class's various "entry points" (sources) can each be leveraged and the content made accessible and comprehensible. 3.) Set high expectations for students behavior and learning, and then assist and cajole all students to achieve them. 4.) Group children in various ways-- always with a clear purpose-- change the groups often. Multicultural Curriculum: - ANSWERS-Help children understand key concepts, events, issues, and historical figures from diverse social perspectives. - Paying attention to how we teach is one dimension of teaching in diverse classrooms and paying attention to what we teach is another. - Teacher's should infuse students' learning of social studies topics with multiple perspectives (viewpoints) and content from different groups. Placing one perspective on a historical event or character alongside other perspectives so that students can compare them and try to draw defensible evidence based conclusions. - THE KEY is to consistently include a variety of perspectives and 'frames of reference" into social studies, rather than simply adding a list of achievements by people from different ethnic groups. Teachers teach while students listen and take notes - ANSWERSLecture method Student talk about subject matter with intervention by the teacher - ANSWERSDiscussion method Interactive way to model a real world situation - simplified and motivated way - ANSWERSSimulation method Repeated process where teacher asks questions and one student responds. - ANSWERSQuestion and Answer Method self-directed activities where students learn by doing - ANSWERSConstruction model students manipulate objects with guidance from the teacher - ANSWERSLaboratory method learners discover info to a problem on their own - ANSWERSInquiry method students to think about a problem, understand the problem, evaluate info to find a solution (scientific method) - ANSWERSProblem-solving method Students produce concrete , self-motivating responses - ANSWERSProject Method What is a topic? - ANSWERS- generally a specific issue or subject of study - facts - take away point: one and done What is a theme? - ANSWERS- Typically, united strand that connects and/or unites multiple topics - Concepts - Take away point: Multiple topics that are united within a common thread or idea Curriculum standards identifies 10 themes: - ANSWERS1.) Culture 2.) Time, continuity, and change 3.) Peoples, places, and environments 4.) Individual development and identity 5.) Individuals, groups, and institutions 6.) Power, authority, governance 7.) Production, distribution, and consumption 8.) Science, technology, and society 9.) Global connections 10.) Civic ideals and practices reflective planning, instruction, assessment, around specific content skills or areas - ANSWERSMeaningful quality across and including time, places, people, and disciplines - ANSWERSIntegrative quality Learning experiences about core values, provide opportunities for real-world problem solving, and helping students develop rational, thoughtful decision-making - ANSWERSValue-based Challenging social studies is where students inquire about things, investigate, question, and evaluate for good decision making - ANSWERSChallenging Where learners experience a variety of approaches, a variety of strategies by and with the teacher, variety of technology, and variety of materials in order for them to be challenges, investigate value-based issues in an integration across time and space so they can have meaningful thinking - ANSWERSActive An integration of experience and knowledge concerning human relations for the purpose of citizenship education 1. Knowledge 2. Skills necessary to process information 3. Values and beliefs 4. Social participation - ANSWERSSocial Studies Each of the disciplines (History, Geography, Economics) may be supported and/or undermined by: - ANSWERS- Specific world views based upon a range of issues - Bias/ Prejudice Authority in Power - Opposition to the power -Marginalized - By those in power - By those who are in opposition Program of study should be meaningful Program of study is challenging and thought provoking Program crosses narrow specific disciplines to be interactive Program of study to evaluates "ethical issues and controversies" - ANSWERSNCSS Social Studies Paradigm The topic latitude of longitude falls under what discipline? - ANSWERSGeography The topic of ancient Egypt falls under what discipline? - ANSWERSHistory The topic of money falls under what discipline? - ANSWERSEconomics The topic of the balance of powers within the federal government falls under what discipline? - ANSWERSGovernment