Social Studies Best Practices Reynolds Longfield

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Social Studies LiteracyScienceMath Social Studies is the Interdisciplinary “glue” which binds our curricula. An Interdisciplinary Approach

Economic systems/ institutions allocating scarce resources Civic values of American constitutional democracy; roles, rights and responsibilities of citizenship People, Places, the Environment New York, the United States and World History HistoryGeography EconomicsCivics Social Studies

Through integrating Social Studies with other subject areas we build a community of learners that will be capable in contributing to societies demanding world. Through respecting the subject of Social Studies and the concerns of our individual learners we create an atmosphere where children feel comfortable to share their views. Our learners will be capable of respecting those opinions and views that differ from their own.

The National Council for the Social Studies -defines this subject as "the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence." *They are a guide that can help unite education and society and gain an understanding for the necessity of unity and acceptance in our diverse nation of today.

Thomas Jefferson, among others, emphasized that the vitality of a democracy depends upon the education and participation of its citizens. While such active civic participation includes becoming informed about issues and voting in elections, it can take many other diverse forms relating to the United States government, its history, its people, and its neighbors around the world. PURPOSE OF SOCIAL STUDIES

I believe Social Studies today should be the core curriculum for the purpose of helping students understand human interactions that occurred in the past, are occurring now, and that are likely to occur in the future so they will be able to determine for any situation what the right thing is and do it, especially when doing the right thing is hard to do. An answer: Interdisciplinary Education. PURPOSE OF SOCIAL STUDIES

The Law of Requisite Variety The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate. Principles of Systems and Cybernetics The Whole is Larger Than the Sum of the Parts Interdisciplinary Education The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle in the Metaphysics: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts" (1045a10).

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