Social Studies

A graduate of Secondary Education/Social Studies program will be able to:

Demonstrate positive relationships with pupils in the following ways-

a. Value each and every pupil equally.

b. Review each pupil's strengths, weaknesses and problems.

c. Seek and solicit pupils' views and comments of their relationships for self-improvement efforts.

Demonstrate the role of teacher as planner in the following ways-

a. Develop significant and relevant objectives appropriate for pupil learning.

b. Develop initiative producing activities which help pupils become aware of basic problems, clarify issues, and motivates them toward the achievement of objectives.

c. Develop meaningful learning experiences which indicates awareness of basic contemporary social issues at the local, national, and international levels.

d. Utilize knowledge in terms of its basic concepts, generalizations, and unresolved problems.

e. Develop activities which makes use of the historians' and social scientists' methodology at pupils' level of understanding.

f. Develop learning activities that reach all pupils.

Demonstrate the role of teacher in the classroom in the following ways-

a. Maintain an open and questioning atmosphere in which pupils are free to develop a questioning attitude.

b. Employ a variety of teaching strategies, techniques, and materials.

c. Utilize a variety of questioning skills involving higher levels of thinking.

d. Utilize the local environment (social, cultural, political as well as physical), to vary resources for learning in order to motivate and direct pupils.

e. Establish criteria for choosing between alternative values in order to empower pupils' right to deal with controversies and issues.

f. Maintain an atmosphere of intellectual integrity by allowing and encouraging consideration of all pupils' points of view.

g. Encourage pupils' critical abilities in viewing sources of information, including teachers', when developing explanations.

h. Recognize the decision-making role of democratic citizenship by encouraging pupils to apply it to relevant issues.

i. View pupils' progress and achievement in terms of knowledge (concepts, generalization, and explanations), intellectual skills and pro-social behavior.

j. View evaluation as a continuous process and devise a variety of ways, making use of formal and informal techniques, including self-evaluation, to assess pupils' growth.