Few things are more important to classroom success than good planning, and a well-thought-out overall sense of where you are going with your class helps a lot--especially if students also have a good sense of what they are supposed to be doing in your class.State standards and Special Professional Association (SPA) standards should be exceptionally useful, but, often, they're not nearly as helpful as they might be.
Please take a close look at the South Dakota State Social Studies Standards and the National Council of Social Studies Teachers standards in any *one* (1) social studies area of your choice. You should find the standards at the links here:
http://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/documents/SocialStudies_9-12.pdf
After class today, please read TSSFFAP Chapter 3 (Once Around the Race Course: Developing
Effective Social Sciences Curriculum) and do the on-line quiz. Then please come back to this post and comment.
Do the state and SPA standards tie in well with the TSSFFAP suggestions on curriculum planning? If so, how? If not, why not? Do you think familiarity with the state and SPA standards will help you become a more effective teacher? Do you think that they explain well to parents, school board members, etc. what students should be getting in their social studies classes? Would you want to be evaluated in terms of how well your students do in matching up to these particular standards?
Do the state and SPA standards tie in well with the TSSFFAP suggestions on curriculum planning? If so, how? If not, why not? Do you think familiarity with the state and SPA standards will help you become a more effective teacher? Do you think that they explain well to parents, school board members, etc. what students should be getting in their social studies classes? Would you want to be evaluated in terms of how well your students do in matching up to these particular standards?
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