Chapter 8 Planning Instruction- Group 4 Blog
October 30, 2008
Cindy Hart
This chapter deals with planning options for the social studies instruction. Most people use the textbook as their sole resource. Using the textbook as your main tool of instruction is often used to organize how to teach this subject. This is a good order of the material. Another way to organize the social studies instruction is to go beyond the text book. This can be through websites, integrating other subjects, and using materials from other books.
Teachers should not just use the textbook in their classroom. This is a good tool, but this should not be the only activity because this is not as fun and the children will not connect as well to this. Other activities should be planned to keep the children’s attention and hands on activities will be more appealing to the children. Another activity that could be used is a dramatic play of what happened in an event.
No matter what approach is taken, there is a sequence of events to planning that is applied in every aspect of instruction. When addressing a unit, you need to identify what the order of the lesson should be. The focus needs to be laid out because this will keep the lesson specific and the children will get more out of this unit. Activities that are interesting to the students will be more beneficial to them. In my classroom, I will be use hands on activities that will engage the students more. I will also plan the entire unit in an order that makes sense in an sequential way.
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1. truscin | November 11, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I really liked this blog. I agree with the part about using more then just the textbook when teaching social studies. If you want your students to be engaged stepping beyond the textbook will help you achieve that goal.
2. carriel05 | November 13, 2008 at 4:41 pm
This is very true, I have seen teachers just use the textbook as a resource and students get bored very quickly. I love the idea of dramatic play, adn any kind of activity that engages students.
3. momofboys | November 20, 2008 at 12:09 am
Integrating other subjects, hands on activities these are the kinds of things that I love to hear. We have so much to teach the children in such a short time as teachers we MUST keep the students engaged in the learning process!