[Free] Social Studies Disciplinary Skills

Social Studies, Disciplinary Framework, K-12 Social Studies Teacher – Free Course

Added on December 8, 2024 Teaching & Academics 2 min read

What you’ll learn

Define Social Studies Disciplinary Skills.
Explore the ways in which a disciplinary framework can support the development of student’s disciplinary skills.
Evaluate the ways that the Social Studies Disciplinary Skills promotes authentic engagement with Social Studies Skills and Practices.
Evaluate the was that the Social Studies Disciplinary Skills promote healthy discourse and equitable instruction in K-12 Social Studies Classrooms.
Describe the ways that the Social Studies Disciplinary Skills can be applied to your teaching context.

Requirements

Be a Social Studies Educator or training to be a Social Studies Educator.

Description

This course explores a new Social Studies Disciplinary Framework that allows teachers to internalize and plan learning experiences in authentic ways related to the disciplinary practices of Social Scientists and Historians. This framework includes three layers. The first encourages active knowledge building and moves away from the typical lecture. The next is the analytical lenses which requires students to use their background knowledge to make meaning of social studies phenomena. Finally, the last layer is that of evaluation, where students report back their learning and develop their own point of view on the topic that they are studying. This framework was designed to be used as a tool to respond to legislation that seeks to control conversations and perspectives. In allowing students to engage with the discipline authentically, we provide opportunities for white hegemonic legislation to be challenged and subverted.

Additionally, this framework allows for a shared language among Social Studies educators to emerge. One that will provide for more authentic engagement for social studies practitioners in sharing best practices and in moving the discipline forward in K-12 spaces. This course is for anyone who would like to explore a framework that can be applied to any K-12 Social Studies classroom, and also for those in higher education training others to enter into the field of Social Studies.

Author(s): Brittney Thornton-Guzman, Ignacio E. Rodriguez