Teaching Social Issues in the Middle Grades - A Teacher s Guide to Using Case Studies to Promote Intelligent

This book provides a collection of ten cases for use in the middle grades that focus on many of the critical social issues we face today.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is Case Method Teaching?
Chapter 2: Teaching With Cases? It's Not for Every Teacher
Chapter 3: Preparing to Teach with Cases
Chapter 4: An Instructional Design for Teaching with Cases
Chapter 5: The Tools of the Interactive Process
Chapter 6: Cases based on Critical Issues in the Social Studies
Chapter 7: What me? A case writer?
Chapter 8: Evaluating students in a case method classroom
Chapter 9: And finally . . .
Appendix A: Who Makes the News?
Bibliography
About the author

About the author

Selma Wassermann is professor emerita in the faculty of education at Simon Fraser University. Author of more than twenty books, she is the recipient of the University Excellence in Teaching Award.

Summary

This book provides a collection of ten cases for use in the middle grades that focus on many of the critical social issues we face today.

Product details

• Authors: Selma Wassermann, Wassermann Selma
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781475861044
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6104-4
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Social sciences, social studies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Social Science, middle school;social issues