EDUC 317: Teaching Social Studies Pre K – 8

Course Description

This course is designed to study social studies teaching, to practice using instructional materials and to learn about evaluation strategies likely to enhance social studies knowledge construction and learning by early childhood, elementary and middle school pupils. It is also planned for students to study educational research and practice related to early childhood, elementary and middle level curriculum development in social studies. Emphasis is given to correlation with other school subjects. Prerequisites: To be taken concurrently with EDU 411 and 412; or declared Spec Ed major without Elem Ed as a double major. Admission to SOEHS.