Sep 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

EDSE 4790C - Introduction to Teaching Secondary Social Studies


This course is designed to enable future social studies teachers to design, implement, evaluate, and reflect upon practices and processes for social studies education. Teacher candidates will explore the purpose and value of social studies, practice different methods and techniques of instruction and gain valuable experience in curriculum development, unit planning, and assessment for classrooms and through service learning.

Requisites: EDSE 3510 or concurrent
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to apply knowledge of disciplinary concepts, facts, and tools; structures of inquiry; and forms of representation in social studies.
  • Students will be able to plan learning sequences that leverage social studies knowledge and literacies, technology, and theory and research to support the civic competence of learners
  • Students will be able to design and implement instruction and authentic assessments, informed by data literacy and learner self-assessment, that promote civic competence.
  • Students will be able to implement relevant and responsive pedagogy, create collaborative and interdisciplinary learning environments, and prepare learners to be informed advocates for an inclusive and equitable society.
  • Students will be able to reflect and expand upon their social studies knowledge, inquiry skills, and civic dispositions to advance social justice and promote human rights through informed action in schools and/or communities.


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