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Originally Posted by Kristie  dh has a question for you, since you'll be teaching social studies.. are you actually limited by what you teach/how you teach it and told to teach the students certain items while leaving other certain historics out of it? the reason he asks is because he's been doing all of this historical reading (both WWI, WWII and American History) and noticing a lot of the kids coming out of school aren't aware of that knowledge or maybe they just don't retain it? |
I don't teach social studies, but I know in my district, they have specific content that has to be taught in specific time frames--takes a lot of the creativity away. But, they usually do cover topics more than once. By this I mean, they will get a broad view of a topic in middle school social studies, then in high school it becomes more specific. Students have to take "Survey of Social Studies," World Civilizations and U.S. History to graduate. I think a big part of the problem is that students do not retain the info more often than those on the outside would realize.