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How do these concepts help us decide what to teach and why?Are these approaches different from what you are seeing in student teaching? How so?

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How do these concepts help us decide what to teach and why?Are these approaches different from what you are seeing in student teaching? How so?

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-These concepts are important to keeping at the forefront of our collaborative planning. They remind us to choose engaging content that is neccessary for our students to know because it will allow them to make informed decisions and opinions. We have the future of the Earth in our classrooms, we owe it to them to engage them with meaningful knowledge that will impact their life.
We know all of our students are individuals with unique experiences, so we must provide them with language to express their current knowledge.
-We must also offer them an education that allows critical thinking opportunites to gain knowledge in order to process information about their world.
-I completed my student teaching in 2008/2009. I don't remember a lot about planning social studies, but I know there were Hougton Mifflin books being used.

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-Engaging curriculum that allows students to gain "powerful knowledge"
-Educators know who their students are and what information they need to know
-Future 3 is the goal
-Geocapabilities
Vignettes | Geocapabilities

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A vignette is brief example of PDK ( Powerful Disciplinary Knowledge) in the context of a geography lesson. The geography lesson is described, and then analysed, in terms of questions like: 'Where is the PDK?', and 'How does PDK knowledge development take place?'

The wide array of PDK vignettes available here illustrate for teachers the value of identifying the powerful geographical knowledge - for thinking, interpreting, and understanding different topics and themes.

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A vignette is brief example of PDK ( Powerful Disciplinary Knowledge) in the context of a geography lesson. The geography lesson is described, and then analysed, in terms of questions like: 'Where is the PDK?', and 'How does PDK knowledge development take place?'

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-Educators have a profesional and moral responsibility to maximize our students' capability to think. We want to our students to be able to ask and answer questions about their world. We must provide meaningful curriculum and learning opportunities so students can learn to be critical thinkers. We must offer an education which promises each individual consistent opportunities to be informed citizens.

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-An educational "right"
-Knowledge gained outside of a person's daily life routines/experiences
-Evidence based knowledge that can be challenged, and it may evolve with new findings
-Critical analysis of the world that allows people to explain their world and their connections to it
-Knowledge that helps eeople make informed decisions
-Allows its holders to develop solutions and make changes