Signature Pedagogy Report
Joseph Joubert once said that, “The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
Teaching is what moves us forward. It allows us to acknowledge different subject areas. We learn the knowledge that is being taught to us through various pedagogies that teachers instill into their teaching techniques. Learning new knowledge, relating, analyzing, and discussing it so we learn different view points. When it comes to teaching social studies, we use all of these teaching methods and integrate them into our classrooms. Scheurman states that, “Social studies signature pedagogy encompasses: direct instruction, inquiry-based, and student-centered learning.” There is such a thing as having multiple pedagogy’s in a single content area, but using one will help students understand in a complete way rather than confusing them with different variations of technique. It is in my paper, where I will address why direct instruction is social studies signature pedagogy.
Joseph Joubert once said that, “The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
Teaching is what moves us forward. It allows us to acknowledge different subject areas. We learn the knowledge that is being taught to us through various pedagogies that teachers instill into their teaching techniques. Learning new knowledge, relating, analyzing, and discussing it so we learn different view points. When it comes to teaching social studies, we use all of these teaching methods and integrate them into our classrooms. Scheurman states that, “Social studies signature pedagogy encompasses: direct instruction, inquiry-based, and student-centered learning.” There is such a thing as having multiple pedagogy’s in a single content area, but using one will help students understand in a complete way rather than confusing them with different variations of technique. It is in my paper, where I will address why direct instruction is social studies signature pedagogy.
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Professional Readings
To help us to understand what is going on in the educational field better, we were asked to read weekly articles in class. Below you will see that for each article we wrote a brief summary and then applied the article to our future classroom incorporating the new strategies.
Topic: Discussion as a Way of Teaching
Preskill, Stephen. "Discussion, Schooling and the Struggle for Democracy: Discussion in a Democratic Society," Theory and Research in Social Education 25 (3), 1997.
Summary: This article explains the importance of discussion, not as a teaching method, but as a valuable tool and a way of inspiring a student's opinion on an unsettled question. Preskill enforces an inquiry-based and discussion-based learning environment where every view is value and welcomed as another answer to an undetermined question. He encourages discussion to best exemplify the democratic classroom process. That we as humans grow from interacting through verbal and/or nonverbal discussion. It is how we nurture and promote human growth and to appreciate the learning of others around you.
Classroom Recommendation: In my future Social Studies class, I hope to encourage such discussion to be pursued. It is with this, that students can learn more about themselves and others. Social studies is a discussion-based curriculum. It involves inquiry and opinions to keep the thought processes moving. Without discussion in a classroom, no interaction between student(s) or teacher will occur and develop. Philosopher, Matthew Lipman (1991) argues that, "Each argument evokes a counterargument that pushes itself beyond the other and pushes the other beyond itself." It is here in which students can evolve their ideas and opinions based off the others reactions to it.
Topic: Learning to Love Assessment
Tomlinson, Carol Ann. "Learning to Love Assessment," Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (2007/2008).
Summary: This article explains how teachers can learn to love creating and facilitating their in-class assessments. Tomlinson explains 10 understandings about classroom assessment. Classroom management is a key factor in the successfulness of assessments. Her form of assessment revolves the "informative." An instructive or explanatory way of assessing students in the classroom.
Classroom Recommendation: Informative assessment can be an essential learning task in social studies curriculum. Assessments in social studies can become bland; dull if the teacher is not creative enough to keep the students interested in the lesson. This kind of assessment style will hopefully get the appeal of students in my classroom. I also think that it is critical for my future students to have experience with all kinds of assessment styles. This can create new learning skills and might enhance their abilities in other learning styles.
To help us to understand what is going on in the educational field better, we were asked to read weekly articles in class. Below you will see that for each article we wrote a brief summary and then applied the article to our future classroom incorporating the new strategies.
Topic: Discussion as a Way of Teaching
Preskill, Stephen. "Discussion, Schooling and the Struggle for Democracy: Discussion in a Democratic Society," Theory and Research in Social Education 25 (3), 1997.
Summary: This article explains the importance of discussion, not as a teaching method, but as a valuable tool and a way of inspiring a student's opinion on an unsettled question. Preskill enforces an inquiry-based and discussion-based learning environment where every view is value and welcomed as another answer to an undetermined question. He encourages discussion to best exemplify the democratic classroom process. That we as humans grow from interacting through verbal and/or nonverbal discussion. It is how we nurture and promote human growth and to appreciate the learning of others around you.
Classroom Recommendation: In my future Social Studies class, I hope to encourage such discussion to be pursued. It is with this, that students can learn more about themselves and others. Social studies is a discussion-based curriculum. It involves inquiry and opinions to keep the thought processes moving. Without discussion in a classroom, no interaction between student(s) or teacher will occur and develop. Philosopher, Matthew Lipman (1991) argues that, "Each argument evokes a counterargument that pushes itself beyond the other and pushes the other beyond itself." It is here in which students can evolve their ideas and opinions based off the others reactions to it.
Topic: Learning to Love Assessment
Tomlinson, Carol Ann. "Learning to Love Assessment," Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (2007/2008).
Summary: This article explains how teachers can learn to love creating and facilitating their in-class assessments. Tomlinson explains 10 understandings about classroom assessment. Classroom management is a key factor in the successfulness of assessments. Her form of assessment revolves the "informative." An instructive or explanatory way of assessing students in the classroom.
Classroom Recommendation: Informative assessment can be an essential learning task in social studies curriculum. Assessments in social studies can become bland; dull if the teacher is not creative enough to keep the students interested in the lesson. This kind of assessment style will hopefully get the appeal of students in my classroom. I also think that it is critical for my future students to have experience with all kinds of assessment styles. This can create new learning skills and might enhance their abilities in other learning styles.