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Social Science/History Teaching Standards

Successful candidates for student teaching must show a sufficient ability to recognize and reflect upon the National Council for Social Studies Teacher Education Standards and the Minnesota Board of Education Standards for Social Studies/History Teaching.  Specifically, they will be assessed in the National Council for Social Studies Knowledge standards.  They will do so by creating a reflective teaching portfolio. 

Checkpoints:

• Upon admission to the education department, students are placed in a cohort group.  SSHT majors must begin their portfolios during the semester they are enrolled in EDUC 305 and EDUC 312.  Note: they may begin earlier by contacting the director of the Social Science/History Teaching Program.
• One full year prior to the semester the student plans to student teach (or upon completion of EDUC 331), students must check with the director of the SSHT Program concerning the progress of their portfolio.
•  Students must submit their portfolios to the director of SSHT for approval one semester prior to student teaching.  Note: students generally need to director’s approval four to eight weeks into the semester as they are setting up meetings with the education department student teaching placement officer.

National Council for Social Studies Standards of Knowledge:

1. Culture and Cultural Diversity
2. Time, Continuity, and Change
3. People, Places, and Environment
4. Individual development and Identity
5. Interactions among Individuals, Groups, Institutions
6. Power, Authority, and Governance
7. Production, Distribution, and Consumption
8. Science, Technology, and Society
9. Global Connections
10. Civic Ideal and Practices

National Council for Social Studies Skills Standards:

1.  Read, critically and actively, the social studies literature

2.  Effectively information technologies to teaching secondary social studies

3.  Apply multiple perspectives to understanding the social world of teaching secondary social studies

4.  Develop strategies for promoting social responsibility among secondary social studies students

5.  Apply an integrated understanding of concepts in the social sciences and history to teaching secondary social studies

6.  Plan and provide a variety of learning opportunities the developmental needs of diverse learners that challenge secondary social studies students to think critically and creatively, be active learners, and interact with fellow students

7.  Design and use multiple assessment techniques that demand high level of performance among secondary social studies students

Last Modified: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 14:40 by Wickstrom Paul