ED 5400 - Social Studies Methods

3 Credit(s)

This course helps preservice teachers to develop self reflection in the teaching/learning process, foster content knowledge of the social sciences, enhance skills related to learning theories, and create authentic and appropriate assessments. The goals of this course reflect the standards of the National Council for Social Studies’ National Standards for Social Studies Teachers (2000) “to ensure that (1) social studies teachers possess the knowledge, capabilities, and dispositions associated with the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplines that make up the social studies, and (2) that they are able to create learning experiences that make these aspects of the subject matter meaningful for learners” (p. 17). (Adapted from the Pennsylvania Dept. of Education’s Pre-K–4 Program Specific Guidelines, 2008.)