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"Travel
is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and
narrow-mindedness and many of our people
need it sorely on those accounts. Broad,
wholesome, charitable views of men and
things cannot be acquired by vegetating in
one little corner of the earth all one's
lifetime." -- Mark Twain, 1867
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Course Description:
Social Studies
Methods for Elementary Teachers. General survey course of skills,
concepts, methodologies, strategies,
and curriculum development of
elementary social studies and economics; includes inquiry learning,
problem solving, current events,
interpretation of pictures,
charts, graphs, tables, maps, and timelines and location and
evaluation of information. Pre-requisite: Hist 140 or His150,Gov
101, Geo 100.
Textbook:
Elementary Social Studies.
[Chapin & Messick, 5th edition 2002]
General Course
Objectives: Completion of the course will assist the
prospective teacher in
- better understanding the
nature of, the role of, the importance of social
studies/citizenship in the general education of children and
the development of a personal rationale to foster social
studies/citizenship education
- developing an action plan and
strategies for teaching social studies/citizenship that will
be congruent with the rationale developed above
- developing and adapting
instructional materials that are appropriate for elementary
age students and which reflect the expectations of the
State of Missouri,
Missouri
Western State College,
National
Council for Social Studies,
EED 340 --
Western Teacher Education
Conceptual Model
Course Signature Piece.
Completion of the class will be evidence that the pre-service
teacher has met XXX goals of the Western model for teacher
education.
Specific Goals Will Be Identified
With Each Learning Module
General Modus Operandi:
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Regular Attendance is assumed
and expected.
The student
has an obligation to
himself/herself. If a
person is not in class,
then the person has lost
the learning that could
have occurred during that
class session. Because of
the nature of the class, a
person cannot simply go to
the library and read a
magazine article for "make
up."
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While the
following will not change
the next item, it is
appropriate to call or
send an email prior to
class about your situation
for the day.
816.271.4300
Aschermann E-Mail
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More than
two absences will
negatively affect the
final grade for the
course. The class will
meet 32 times. Five
points will be deducted
from the total number of
points acquired during the
semester. [Contingent
upon the event of the day,
on occasions attendance
may not be taken.]
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Personal
Note: A teacher needs to
be where he/she is
expected to be and on a
regular basis. A teacher
or anyone in the private
sector will not have
employment long if
irregular attendance is
noted. Your "job" right
now is being a
professional student at
Western. Anticipate and
then meet each personal
crisis in such a way that
attendance will not be a
problem for you. In 32
years at Western your
instructor has missed five
days because of sickness. If
you are prone to have much
sickness, you should
seriously consider
something else to do.
During the fall 2003
semester, however, I
anticipate several
occasions when I will not
be in St. Joseph
Evaluation and Assessment:
- Final
evaluation for the course will be the result of your
active participation. People learn by doing.
So you will have a number of projects to complete.
- To "encourage"
you to do the necessary readings you will frequently be
given a quiz. A quiz cannot "be made up."
- As mentioned
above----in EED 340 you will either succeed or you will
not. Performance at the C,D and F levels is not
acceptable. Would you like to have a heart operation
done by a person who received a "C" in cutting class? I
would not feel comfortable even if the person received a
"B" in the cutting class. If your performance is not at
the B+ or A level, then you may be asked to redo the
activity, project, test. If you are not a person who
believes in perfection, then you may want to wait until
spring 2004 to take the course.
- Grading Scale:
- A=100-94%
- B=93-85%
- C=84-75%
- D=74-70%
- F=69%
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