Jessica Ferreras-Stone – författare

This textbook is a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching middle level social studies. Middle level students are just as capable as high school students at engaging in hands-on, progressive, reflective activities, yet pedagogical strategies designed specifically for the middle grades are often overlooked in teacher education programs. This text provides both progressive and traditional teaching methods and strategies proven effective in the middle level classroom.The content of this book consists of conventional chapters such as “What is Social Studies?” and “Unit and Curriculum Planning,” as well as unique chapters such as “The Middle Level Learner”, “Best Practices for Teaching State History” and “Integrating the “Core” Subjects in Middle Level Social Studies”.In addition to the unique chapters and lesson plans many additional features of the book will be useful for middle level teaching and learning. These features include:A list of website resources that provide links to thousands of lesson plans, state and national standards, and other multimedia tools that can be used in the classroomIndividual, collaborative, and whole class activities that will help methods students develop a better understanding of the topics, lessons, and strategies discussedHigh quality lesson ideas and classroom tested teaching strategies embedded throughout the bookImages of student work samples that will methods students visualize the finished product that is being discussedAn examination of state and national standards that will help guide methods students in their lesson planning

This textbook is a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching middle level social studies. Middle level students are just as capable as high school students at engaging in hands-on, progressive, reflective activities, yet pedagogical strategies designed specifically for the middle grades are often overlooked in teacher education programs. This text provides both progressive and traditional teaching methods and strategies proven effective in the middle level classroom.The content of this book consists of conventional chapters such as “What is Social Studies?” and “Unit and Curriculum Planning,” as well as unique chapters such as “The Middle Level Learner”, “Best Practices for Teaching State History” and “Integrating the “Core” Subjects in Middle Level Social Studies”.In addition to the unique chapters and lesson plans many additional features of the book will be useful for middle level teaching and learning. These features include:A list of website resources that provide links to thousands of lesson plans, state and national standards, and other multimedia tools that can be used in the classroomIndividual, collaborative, and whole class activities that will help methods students develop a better understanding of the topics, lessons, and strategies discussedHigh quality lesson ideas and classroom tested teaching strategies embedded throughout the bookImages of student work samples that will methods students visualize the finished product that is being discussedAn examination of state and national standards that will help guide methods students in their lesson planning

Throughout history, silences have been an inherent process of historical production - privileged narratives masquerade as definitive history, and those deemed less worthy are mute (Trouillot, 1995). Because of this, our understanding of many events in the past is incomplete; and the way we frame our contemporary societies based on these events is, implicitly or explicitly, silenced by inherently racist structures. The editors of this volume define spaces of silence beyond the temporality and physicality of historical events. Spaces of silence exist within minds, emotions, systems, and places. For instance, we recognize ways in which settler colonialism historically and presently silences Indigenous sovereignty and rights to place.How do we, then, dismantle these spaces in a multi-racial society and globalized world? Dismantling these spaces of silence situates hopes and possibilities of decolonizing our ways of thinking, ways of acting, and ways of being. This volume seeks work that calls out the various spaces of silence and ways to dismantle these spaces.