博客來Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies for pre-service social studies teachers. This fully updated text includes new topics and assessment examples, expanded discussions of the teaching methods, and guidance on differentiating lessons for multiple learning levels. Part 1 offers the foundations for teaching and learning in a social studies classroom and explores contextual, theoretical, and policy factors that all teachers need to consider before entering the learning environment. Part 2 delivers a range of comprehensive strategies for providing instruction that is appropriate for meeting learning targets, helping all students learn, and fostering a classroom learning environment.
Features of the third edition include:
- A list of goals before each chapter presenting an overview of the chapter’s content focus and providing an outline for the chapter review
- New discussions of emerging topics such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), remote learning, social and emotional learning, social media, culturally responsive teaching, and culturally sustaining pedagogies
- Expanded discussion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice; anti-biased teaching; and student identities, including LGBTQ+, racial, and ethnic identities
- A ＂Reality Check＂ feature providing directions for integrating field-based experiences into the chapters and contextualizing the ideas in the book for a classroom setting
- Each chapter in Part 2 (Chapters 5-11) has been expanded to include ideas for motivating students to learn and advice around supporting emerging multilingual learners
- Chapters 5-11 include the feature ＂Making Your Lesson More Meaningful for Multilingual Learners,＂ which provides updated ideas--based on current research and theories about learning language--for engaging multilingual learners, specific for each instructional strategy
- Expanded discussion of Inquiry Learning and the Inquiry Design Model (IDM)
- New examples of assessments and suggestions for differentiating instruction for different learning levels
Combining learning theories with practical strategies, this fully updated new edition is the go-to, all-inclusive guide to the social studies classroom for pre-service and in-service teachers. Online Support Materials include additional lesson plan and unit plan examples, additional information about the Inquiry Design Model, state requirements for the social studies, and further reading suggestions.
