Intersession 2002
Wednesday & Friday
8:30-12:20 in EDB 8620
MON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUC 414 -4
Designs for Learning:
Secondary Social Studies
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*D0300
Torn Morton
Office: EDB 8637
Phone: 291-5977
E-mail: tlrnorton@sfu
ca
PREREQUISITE
Educ 401/402.
*This
section restricted to PDP students in Quebec Program.
DESCRIPTION
This methods course is for secondary social studies teachers. It will explore topics such as the
purpose of social studies, critical thinking, teaching history and geography, co-operative learning,
assessment, teaching moral issues and controversies, multi-culturalism and anti-racist education,
and multiple intelligences. Much of the course will be workshopping a unit plan and editing each
other's work. As an individual you will produce 2 lesson plans and as a group you will produce a
comprehensive unit. Disk copies of units and lessons produced will be shared with other members
of the class.
OBJECTIVES
To enhance teachers' ability to plan and make use of a wide range of teaching strategies, learning
resources and assessment practises to deliver a social studies program that is engaging for students,
explores enduring understandings and emphasizes collaboration and critical thinking.
REQUIREMENTS
• 2 individual lesson plans - 25% each (50 total)
• unit plan (a group project) - 25%
• participation in course and group project - 15%
• 2 quizzes - 5% each (10 total)
REQUIRED READINGS
The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies, R. Case & P. Clark (editors). Pacific Educational Press.
(Available from the SFU bookstore.)
Social Studies 8-10, Integrated Resource Package
1998, BC Ministry of Education.
(Available at http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp
/)
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Cooperative Learning and Social Studies: towards excellence and equity.
T. Morton. San Juan Capistrano,
CA: Kagan Co-op Learning.
Critical Challenges in Social Studies for Junior High Students.
R. Case, L. Daniels, & P. Schwartz
(editors). Burnaby: Field Studies, Faculty of Education, SFU.
Critical Challenges for Primary Students.
T. McDiarmid, R. Manzo, T. Musselle (editors). Burnaby: Field
Studies, Faculty of Education, SFU.
Critical Challenges in Social Studies for Upper Elementary School Students.
Burnaby: J
.
Harrison, N.
Smith, I. Wright (editors). Field Studies, Faculty of Education, SFU.
Doing
History: investigating with children in elementary and middle schools.
L. Levstik, K.
Barton. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Elementary
Social
Studies: A practical approach.
I. Wright. Scarborough, Ont: Nelson.
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: charting the future of teaching the past. S.
Wineburg.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
In the Global Classroom, vols.
1 and 2. G. Pike and D. Selby. Toronto: Pippin.
Knowing Teaching and Learning History: national and international perspectives.
P. Stearns, P. Seixas, S.
Wineburg (editors). New York: New York University Press.
(Crosslisted with EDUC 474 D04.00)
