Marley's Social Studies Journey

Implementing Social Interactive Model in The Classroom Cooperative teaching and learning is all about group work and social skills. Implementing a teaching model that is focused on the interaction between peers is important because it helps students gain skills that are used in everyday life- not just the classroom. Social relationships in your classroom helps your students to learnt the information you are presenting in a different and more engaging way because they are given the chance to discuss and interact with the ideas and thoughts of other students. Every student and/or person has different views and ideas on everything, therefore students can benefit from one another, no matter what it is. Facilitating group work in your classroom encourages your students to expand on their thoughts and feel willing to share their ideas because they are given the tools needed to share them successfully.  During cooperative teaching, students are able to help one another...

Blooms Taxonomy in Social Studies  "Bloom's taxonomy  is a set of three hierarchical models used to classify educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity. The three lists cover the learning objectives in cognitive, affective and sensory domains" (Wikipedia). The first tier of Blooms Taxonomy is  remember: being able to recall facts and basic concepts; recognizing and recalling information. Helping students to remember and recall on prior knowledge is important in learning because when you can connect new information to prior information, it is easier to comprehend and understand the new information. The next tier in the triangle is understand: to explain ideas and/or concepts. Interpreting, explaining, summarizing, and inferring are all important steps to understanding information. Next is apply the knowledge: to use information in new situations: execute, implement, solve, and demo...

Models, Strategies, and Methods When it comes to teaching any subject, teachers have different approaches and methods to teaching. You can model the information you are teaching in many different ways in order to gain the attention and interest of every student. By allowing yourself to incorporate many different models, strategies, and methods in your teaching, you are allowing your students to learn better. Some different models of teaching are behavioral, information processing, social-interactive and personal. In all of these models you are giving your students a chance to engage in the information and think for themselves. You want your students' to share their intelligence and experiences to be able to gain confidence in their skills and share with their peers what they know. Strategies are a set of steps that you have to follow in order to complete a particular model. Some strategi...

What is Social Studies? The study of Social Studies is more than just learning about history; it is the study of economics, civics, citizenship, geography, and even social behaviors from past and even the present. Social Studies has powerful elements when it is  meaningful (when it makes connections with the students and real-world situations, giving them the skills to be engaging with the past), integrative (draws on more than one discipline, subject or skill set), value-based  (strengthens students' sense of democracy values and social responsibility), challenging (incorporates different perspectives and draws on students' critical-thinking skills), and active (participatory, makes use on manipulative or physical environment). Students' won't remember the multiple choice test you gave on the Social Studies topic you were teaching in the moment, they will remember how you connected the material with them and today...