Writing in the Social Studies
A Practical Guide for Teaching an Essential Skill
Seiten
2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-5911-9 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-5911-9 (ISBN)
On each page are strategies, tips, and takeaways for teachers to implement in their social studies classroom, while every chapter concludes with helpful handouts to distribute directly to students.
Writing in the Social Studies is a practical guide for educators. On each page are strategies, tips, and takeaways for teachers to implement in their classroom, while every chapter concludes with helpful handouts to distribute directly to students. Beginning with a framework and pacing guide, Writing in the Social Studies examines foundational, academic, and real-world writing, concluding with a methodology for grading and a spirited plea for teachers to write themselves.
Teachers who believe in teaching “skills through content” finally have a blueprint from which to work. Those who understand it is imperative students graduate with the ability to think critically and express a point of view now have a vehicle with which to achieve their goals. Writing in the Social Studies will be the first book to tackle this crucial yet neglected corner of the curriculum. There is a desperate need for professional development in this area, and therefore also tremendous opportunity.
It is a professional imperative that social studies educators teach a variety of writing skills through content. As a result they should have access to a resource which clearly and engagingly shows them how. This is Writing in the Social Studies.
Writing in the Social Studies is a practical guide for educators. On each page are strategies, tips, and takeaways for teachers to implement in their classroom, while every chapter concludes with helpful handouts to distribute directly to students. Beginning with a framework and pacing guide, Writing in the Social Studies examines foundational, academic, and real-world writing, concluding with a methodology for grading and a spirited plea for teachers to write themselves.
Teachers who believe in teaching “skills through content” finally have a blueprint from which to work. Those who understand it is imperative students graduate with the ability to think critically and express a point of view now have a vehicle with which to achieve their goals. Writing in the Social Studies will be the first book to tackle this crucial yet neglected corner of the curriculum. There is a desperate need for professional development in this area, and therefore also tremendous opportunity.
It is a professional imperative that social studies educators teach a variety of writing skills through content. As a result they should have access to a resource which clearly and engagingly shows them how. This is Writing in the Social Studies.
Aaron Pribble is the author of Teacherland: Inside the Myth of the American Educator and Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League. An award-winning educator, Aaron teaches social studies at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Framework
2 Writing is Thinking
3 Foundational Writing
4 Academic Writing Part I
5 Academic Writing Part II
6 Real-World Writing
7 Writing as Assessment
8 Epilogue
9 Appendix A: Teacher Tools
10: Appendix B: Q&A
11: Appendix C: Suggested Reading
About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 223 mm |
Gewicht | 254 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
ISBN-10 | 1-4758-5911-2 / 1475859112 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4758-5911-9 / 9781475859119 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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