...this goal by testing students' proficiency in three subjects: math, reading, and science. Through this standardized testing the government would hold schools accountable for the progress of their students. However, the result has been far from the progress intended. As a result of No Child Left Behind, class time is spent teaching to the test, and the social sciences are being ignored. Not only does the drop in social studies education present a risk for the students in high-stakes testing schools, but it also widens the inequality gap between students and presents a threat to the communities around them; for this reason parents, students, teachers and community members should push for increased emphasis on engaging social studies education in schools. Social Studies and the Test While math, reading, and science are tested by every school in the country, social studies is not. It is easy to test math skills on a standardized test; there is only one right answer. It is also easy to test reading comprehension; the text shows the right answer. Reading, and math are skills, easy to test and measure. However, social studies and science are different. Both have to do more with specific knowledge and understandings. Also, both require basic reading and math skills to comprehend. However, there is a set of...
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...High-Stakes Testing and Standardization on Elementary Social Studies MarginalizationFitchett and Heafner | Social Studies Education in the Age of Testing and AccountabilityBurroughs, Groce, and Webeck | | | | Persistent GCU Library Link | http://ehis.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/eds/detail?vid=4&sid=4348002d-9f6e-4191-b1e2-6c390ec6f813@sessionmgr110&hid=105&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ==#db=eric&AN=EJ885683 | http://ehis.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=e49ba272-edce-47fe-b28ea6522f3243ab%40sessionmgr13&vid=4&hid=3 | | | | Purpose of the StudyWhat is the author’s rationale for selecting this topic? Does he build a strong case? | The authors of this journal article purpose was to examine and explore the trend within the United States towards social studies in elementary school (Kindergarten through 5th Grade) and how it has become marginalized. The authors compare social studies marginalization to the stronger emphasis placed upon reading, mathematics, language arts, and science. The authors of the article suggest that there is a trend in elementary schools is to give little to no social studies instruction within the primary grades (Kindergarten-2nd Grade) and then progress the amount of instruction in the intermediate grades (3rd Grade-5th Grade). The authors build a strong argument based on the amount of time spent instructing elementary school students in social studies in comparison to junior high school and high school...
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...Effectiveness of the Social Studies Solutions at Harnett Central High School Jerry L. Sarchet, Jr. Education 622: Research April 24, 2007 Abstract Overwhelming evidence in numerous studies demonstrated the value of student performance linked with their ability to take and review notes. Teachers have sought the best way to provide notes for student. In 2006, Harnett County Schools adopted an alternative approach to note taking and instructional delivery called the Social Studies Solutions. It was found that the Social Studies Solutions enhanced the Civics and Economics End of Course Test results by implanting the new instructional delivery and method of note taking for students. Introduction In the game of high stakes testing in the classroom, teachers are judged on their ability to help students pass standardized tests. Teacher autonomy on material taught has slowly dwindled away in North Carolina with the Standard Course of Study. Teachers must teach their subject within guidelines set by the state. Additionally, teacher discretion on a child’s knowledge is reduced with the standardized tests that decide if a child has received a “sound, basic education (Brief History of the Leandro Case, 2007).” Standardized tests have become essential to insure all children learn the same material in accordance with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Additionally, schools are evaluated upon their ability to help students pass said exams. Their performances on...
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...classroom where social studies is being taught really well I imagine it being run by a versatile teacher. The teacher would make the classrooms environment a welcoming and nurturing place that would make the kids encouraged to learn. The teacher would be able to connect different subjects to social studies such as reading. There would be pictures of places, events, and influential people in history on the walls that would entice the student’s curiosity and encourage reflective thinking. The students would be involved in a lot of hands on activities that would assist in their comprehension. The students would be crating dioramas, researching online and would have access to journals, articles, and books that contain a lot of information that would relate to social studies in order to promote a hands-on experience. Ch.2 #1 -I believe that there are a few reason that contribute to low voter turnouts in elections in the U.S.. The senior population many times has a hard time not only finding transportation to vote but also finding out when voting is being take place and where. People in general lead very busy lives and they may not feel like they have the time to vote or may not have found out where voting is going to be held. Another reason that I believe adds to low voter turnout is that people really don’t believe that their vote will really make a difference in the way the country will be run. Ch. 3 #2 - When it comes to diversity and the way students study the social sciences...
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...Evaluation of Social Studies Standards Chad Dillen Grand Canyon University: EED-465 February 3, 2013 Standards are an important part of the education process at all levels and in all subjects. They are beneficial for both students and teachers by setting goals and objectives. Using standards helps to create uniformity across a state and region in regards to what the students are learning. It helps the teachers because they will know what the students should have learned in previous grades and what skills they already have obtained. Without a set of standards there would be extreme differences from one school to the next and even one classroom to the next. If teachers did not have these guideline than key elements of information could be getting left out of a child’s education. There are national and state standards for education but the social studies standards are not as defined and complete in every state because the emphasis has been placed on math, science, reading and English. However improvements have been made in recent years by understanding the need for standards in social studies. The Arizona Department of Education has a set of social studies standards and by analyzing them information can be obtained about how they benefit teachers and students as well as where the standards can still be improved. The Arizona standards are broken down either by grade or by the five different strands which are American history, geography, economics, world history, and...
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...The article “Do As I Say and Do As I Do: Using the Professor-in-Residence Model in Teaching Social Studies Methods” by Joyce H. Burstein, is a very informative and useful article that explains how Ms. Burstein brought preservice teachers to a urban professional development site (PDS), where they learned new methods and techniques for teaching social studies to 6th grade students, by observing the methods implemented by the professor-in-residence (PIR). Ms. Burstein explains how most social studies classrooms still use methods of using textbooks and lecturing students in their lessons, where it is not very engaging or practical for students. However, in Ms. Burstein’s methods course she introduces new strategies for preservice teachers such...
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...The Impact of Social Media on the Study Habits of Grade Six Pupils at San Luis District Introduction Social media sites continue to grow in popularity; it is a premise that technology is a vital part in today’s student success equation. Many students are spending countless hours immersing in social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. Thus, it is no surprise that there is a close relationship between high school students and media. Various researches have been conducted on how social media influences student retention at schools. Many parents are worried that their children are spending too much time on Facebook and other social media sites and not enough time studying. As of January 2013 there were 1 billion monthly active users on Facebook alone. Other social media sites saw a large amount of monthly active users as well: YouTube (800 million), Google+ (343 million) and Twitter (200 million). For elementary pupils, social media can either be a good thing or a bad thing. It can be very beneficial to have as teacher that make their students use social media can help their pupils become more engaged in what they are learning in the class. Learners like when teachers are using social media to help them learn. This shows that teachers are trying to be modern and willing to use new tools on the internet. For example Twitter can be used to ask questions, to brainstorm, in class discussions, and to help other students connect with others in their class to get help on...
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...IN SOCIAL STUDIES BY: SURBHI MOHINDROO SECTION- A ROLL NO. – 37 GUIDED BY- DR. KUSUM WHAT ARE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES Controversial issues are those that have a political, social or personal impact and arouse feeling and/or deal with questions of value or belief. Controversial issues can be local or global, such as bullying, religion, politics, personal lifestyle or values. They are usually complicated with no easy answers and are issues on which people often hold strong views based on different sets of experiences, interests and values. Almost any topic can become controversial if individual groups offer differing explanations about events, what should happen next and how issues should be resolved, or if one side of an issue is presented in a way that raises the emotional response of those who might disagree. CAUSES OF CONTROVERSIES Following are the causes of controversies in social studies: ...
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...Assumptions, Limitations, Scope and Delimitation The study will help establish whether participating teachers are curious and eager to learn new skills that will provide additional teaching opportunities. It is assumed that teachers are curious and eager to learn how to infuse advanced technology and also develop an understanding of instructing with available technological tools such as wireless laptop technology (Marino, Sameshima, &ump; Beecher, 2009). The limitations are as follows: first, the amount of time available for the researcher to conduct this study, which may also limit the study’s scope to a smaller group of respondents. The other limitation is the researcher’s inability to assess the accurate amount of time teachers will spend using an online network. The next limitation is the location, a rural school system and not a suburban or urban school system because the system under review only has four schools. The final limitation is teachers’ use of available technology within their classroom due to possible technophobia, lack of training, and or skills. The delimitation in this study is that no data will be collected from XYZ’s students and administrators who also use wireless technology. The TAS questionnaire, which is a standardized measure with high reliability and validity of teachers’ technological attitudes, will be administered to 108 teachers. However, the use of a self-reported questionnaire will also assume that participants provide truthful responses...
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...Impact of Social Media use on Academic Performance among university students: A Pilot Study Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi1 Mohd Shahizan Othman2 e-mail: abumunir82@yahoo.com e-mail: shahizan@utm.my Author(s) Contact Details: 1,2 Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia Abstract — There is no doubt that Social media has gained wider acceptability and usability and is also becoming probably the most important communication tools among students especially at the higher level of educational pursuit. As much as social media is viewed as having bridged the gap in communication that existed. Within the social media Facebook, Twitter and others are now gaining more and more patronage. These websites and social forums are way of communicating directly with other people socially. Social media has the potentials of influencing decision-making in a very short time regardless of the distance. On the bases of its influence, benefits and demerits this study is carried out in order to highlight the potentials of social media in the academic setting by collaborative learning and improve the students' academic performance. The results show that collaborative learning positively and significantly with interactive with peers, interactive with teachers and engagement which impact the students’ academic performance. Keywords –social media usage, collaborative learning, higher education and students’ academic performance. 1. INTRODUCTION The social media has...
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...succeed. Inclusion in the education system has created a lot of controversy among teachers, parents, and other individuals that may be affected by this topic. This controversy represents the decision to incorporate students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) into mainstream classrooms rather than special learning...
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..._______________________ by MICHEL T. URBI March, 2015 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Social Studies play a very important role in the modernization of mankind. It is therefore that students should acquire sufficient knowledge on it. Over the past years, social studies as a subject, educators have noted that students in many schools in the Philippines are still considered low in their achievements. Empirical studies like the Ramos, R. Survey (1980) show that there has been deterioration in the students’ achievement because of the focus in dealing with the subject social studies. The Ramos, R Survey by a group of Filipinos researchers found that pupils in elementary Sibika at Kultura in 1979 are more behind, and the high school students of Araling Panlipunan are years behind their counterparts in history of mankind, early civilization, government, taxation and economics in dealing with reasoning as a logic and explaining through what is happened to connect to the present times. Interested in the subject is being encouraged by teachers, but despite the resultant increase in interest, symposia and fora, as well as the abundance of approaches and materials, our educational system is plagued of the students with seemingly inherent adverse reaction towards the subjects. This condition is alarming to educators considering the pervading influence of social science in most of the avenues of man’s life. It is certainly a disappointment to them to discover that advances...
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...TRANSITIONS IN TEACHING STRATEGIES OF HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHERS: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH Mark Joseph C. Diaz Jerah Mae G. Gilos Kenneth P. Guilan Nerissa E. Sorolla Chapter 1 Introduction to the Study Chapter One has five parts: (1) Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study, (2) Statement of the Problem, (3) Significance of the Study (4) Definition of Terms, and (5) Scope and Delimitation of the Study. Part One, Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study, justifies the need for the investigation, describes the origin of the study, discusses the importance of selecting the problem, and the reason for conducting it. Part Two, Statement of the Problem, presents the purpose and enumerates the problems answered in the study. Part Three, Significance of the Study, states and tells the importance and benefits that may be derived from the findings. Part Four, Definition of Terms, clarifies the meaning of the terms used in this investigation. Part Five, Scope and Delimitation of the Study, sets the limit and scope of the investigation. Background of the Study Throughout the history, societies have sought to educate people to produce goods and services, to respond effectively and creatively to their world and to satisfy their curiosity and aesthetic impulses. Education involves theory and empirical sets of knowledge and learning as well. Teaching is the process of helping their learners economically and efficiently. It is...
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...in the educational field for many years. Many studies attribute common behaviors such as aggression, noncompliance, and anger as factors leading towards teacher frustration and increased teacher burnout (Bunte, Schoemaker, Hessen, van der Heijden, &Matthys, 2014). Approximately 11% of children 4-17 years of age (6.4 million) have been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011.The percentage of children with an ADHD diagnosis continues to increase, from 7.8% in 2003 to 9.5% in 2007 and to 11.0% in 2011 (ADHD). Additionally, students with ADHD have shown an increase in comorbidity with ODD (ADHD). Due to the fact that many teachers lack preparation in the area of classroom management dealing with students with challenging behavioral issues, such as those in students with ADHD and ODD, they are subjected to increased frustration and increased teacher burnout rates. Further research also points out the adverse effects lack of teacher preparation have on the future outcomes for students with negative conduct behavior, which include the likelihood of students with ADHD and ODD to develop substance abuse and criminal aggression in later years (Darney, Reinke, Herman, Stormont, &Ialongo, 2012). As such, professional development in the form of teacher and intervention training is needed in order to support the needs of both the teachers and the future outcomes for students. This grant proposal will offer professional development sessions to teachers at the Child School/Legacy High School on Roosevelt...
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...Effects of “One Giant Step to Humankind” Outreach Project in the Level of Social Consciousness Of the Grade VI Students Is presented to Dr. Nicasio A. Manatan As partial fulfillment to the requirements of Philosophy of Education in Master of Education in Child Study Philippine Normal University By Cheryll S. Leus March 2012 Introduction One of the principles in learning is that “students learn by doing.” Once they are interested in something, they are focused and can easily absorb everything. According to Birkenholz, learning is often defined as a change in behavior. Learning occurs when people take new found information and incorporate it into their life (www.umsl.edu). In this light that the teacher in Social Studies VI asked the students to conceptualize and put into action a project that can contribute in eradicating poverty in the Philippines. The teacher believes that once a person knows something about the problem, he/she has responsibility to help solve it. Engaging the pupils in solving it will eventually develop a socially oriented individual who is critically aware to what is happening in his/her surrounding. And will soon be an effective agent of change in our society. Not everything is learned within the four walls of the classroom. Students may learn things necessary to life but not everything about life. It is important to expose them to the real world outside the school...
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