Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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EDEL 3560 - Teaching Social Studies to Fourth and Fifth Graders
This course prepares students to teach social studies in 4th and 5th grade classrooms, based on sound understandings of child development, knowing the content to be taught, and how to effectively teach the content to students. This course fulfills the Social Studies Education component of requirements of the Ohio Department of Education for adding a Generalist Endorsement to your Early Childhood Teaching License.
Requisites: (EDPL 3910 or concurrent) and (EDEC 3002, 3003, 3110, 3120, 3300, 3400, 3500)
Credit Hours: 2
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to identify and develop community interests, connections and resources to support student engagement in social studies projects, investigations and service learning.
- Students will be able to effectively engage 4th and 5th grade learners in historical thinking and skills, spatial thinking and skills, civic participation and skills, and economic decision making and skills.
- Students will be able to identify, select, and use the academic language associated with each of the social science disciplines, in order to model and support academic learning.
- Students will be able to manage and monitor a classroom learning environment that supports independent, collaborative, and whole-class engagement in social studies instruction, projects, investigations, and expeditions.
- Students will be able to select and use formative instructional practices, seamlessly, to inform and adjust instruction to support the learning of all students.
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