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- Commitment to Advocate
- Affirm Students: through culture, teaching strategies, materials, books/children's literature and content of significance to them.
- Intentionally connecting social studies to current events and other subjects, an interdisciplinary educator. KNOW and TEACH your content.

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Primary Mission of Teaching Social Studies

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Primary Mission of Teaching Social Studies

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The educator's purpose for teaching social studies is to give students knowledge of people, places, and events/experiences.
AND teach citizens how to treat people democratically.

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Colorblind Education is the Wrong Response

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Colorblind Education is the Wrong Response

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"The classroom is the perfect platform to teach students about community"

"Be comfortable being uncomfortable."

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Dimension #1 - developing questions and planning inquiries (discussions, higher-order thinking, critical thinking, written responses.)
Dimension #2 - applying disciplinary tools and concepts (community service, service learning, student/local government activism.)
Dimension #3 - evaluating sources and using evidence (textbook, newspaper, articles, non-fiction children's literature, field trips, guest speakers.)
Dimension #4 - communicating conclusions and taking informed action (student presents findings - essays, letters, speeches, etc. and then take informed action. - community, service, student government, volunteerism.)

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What does it mean to teacher social studies?

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What does it mean to teacher social studies?

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The purpose for teaching social studies is to give students knowledge of people, places, and events/experiences (near and far) and teach them how to treat people democratically.
Democracy is the responsibility of everyone who will be effected.

How does this look in the classroom?

Democracy doesn't materialize out of thin air but it takes work.
The school is the ideal place for young people to learn democracy and citizenship.
- They are in public places.
- People come from diverse worlds.

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Concepts to talk/educate children about throughout lessons

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Concepts to talk/educate children about throughout lessons

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Deliberation, voting, community service and education, knowledge, values, and dispositions.

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To be an ally/advocate for students and the community

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To be an ally/advocate for students and the community

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- Do listen and ask how you can help.
- Don't expect another person to educate you about their identity.
- Do accept criticism thoughtfully.
- Don't broadcast your qualifications for being an ally.
- Do speak up when you hear biased language.
- Don't apologize for the actions of your identity group.
- Do seek support from experienced allies within your identity group.
- Do acknowledge intersectionality.
- Don't selectively support one group over another.

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A realistic fiction or non-fiction children's/young adult book that educates young citizens and exposes them to...
- Varieties of race
- Varieties of family structure
- Varieties of holidays
- Disabilities and diseases
- Daily life not similar or exposed to dominant culture in U.S.
- Languages (other than English or 'proper' English) being taught, celebrated, or incorporated in the text.
- Celebration of religion or faiths
- Families impacted by service in the military
- Untold perspectives of country/world events
- Any person, event, way of life that would keep them from being colorblind, ability blind, culture-blind, trauma-blind, etc.

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"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit." - Wade Davis

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"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit." - Wade Davis

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My Brave Book that I chose and brought to class

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My Brave Book that I chose and brought to class

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The Day You Begin

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Taught through direct instruction and proper application.
Cannot be taught just once
- Introduced in early grades
- Re-taught
- Reviewed
- Expounded upon as grades progress
-- ex. globes
maps

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ex. Map-Quest
https://www.mapquest.com/
Google Earth
https://www.google.com/earth/
GPS
Satellite

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- Grid (lines of latitude and longitude)
- Color (water depth, population, agriculture)
- Scale (distance)
- Symbols (represent physical characteristics)
- Legend/Key (to explain symbols)

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Includes Earth's features and distribution of its human inhabitants and other life.

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Physical
- Landforms
- Water bodies
- Climate
- Weather
- Plant and animal life
AND
Human
- Interaction between people and their physical and cultural environments.

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M - movement - humans interacting on Earth (travel, trade, communication)
R - regions - how they form and change (specified by a certain characteristic such as location and place.)
H - human - environment interaction (population, preservation of the Earth)
L - location - position on Earth's surface (relative or absolute/specifically where)
P - place - physical and human characteristics (attributes of a particular place, ex. dessert, plains.)