Current events should be taught in the classroom, because it will allow students to learn the unbiased truth about the subject. Students are constantly being surrounded with only one side of the story or people’s uninformed opinions. In Knowing When to Teach Current Events by Noliwe Rooks, associate professor and director of graduate studies at Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center, states that, “Many of those conversations have taken place in public in the form of […] blog posts, and numerous “think” pieces in the media” (Rooks). Learning about current events in this day and age is hard to find the truth about the full story from reliable sources. Many people are just trying to get people to read their story or watch their channel by only telling certain parts of the story to make it seem different than what is actually happening. Teaching students to be global citizens, by Deborah Hoeflinger, adjunct professor of history at country college of Morris, states that, “They can also use current events to broaden student knowledge and interest in world affairs” (Hoeflinger). Not only will learning about current events …show more content…
In Teachers’ Views on Teaching Current Events in Social Studies by Handan Deveci, professor at Anadolu University, conducted a study and found that, “More than half of the teachers consider that current events are highly related to […] social studies course[s]”(448). Current events do not have to be taught in all classes. However, they should be taught in social studies classes since they are related to the topics being discussed. The text also states, “The time for [teaching] current events differs from [the] first 1 to 10 minutes of the class” (Deveci 448). Teaching current events will get your students focused with something most students enjoy. By teaching them in the start of class it is also, less likely to interfere with that day’s
A lot of people may argue that it is not necessary for America to teach global conflicts like the Holocaust and Rwanda, however, it is important to learn about it to keep the citizens safe for future conflicts. If we continue to teach it in schools, it will be prevented in the future and to inform people on all the innocent lives that were lost and how cruel some people can be, and if one person steps up and tries to make a difference, the amount of genocides could really go down. By doing so, it will help genocides from not happening in the future, inform people about all the innocent lives that were lost and to show people how one person really can make a difference, and it is important to maintain peace throughout the world so they do not happen again. Contact your senators and/or school board today to ensure that America will continue to teach about global conflicts, and if they do not already, you could try to persuade them
Many people try to think “back to the good old days,” when really they were not that good for most people who had no rights. With the advancement in technology, we were forced to open our eyes to what is going on in the world around us and the disadvantaged people face throughout the world. As a society once we start to working on damage control to clean up the mess we got into we can finally have true change. The damage control will take time and effort from all people involved on either end of the situation. One major move I feel we can make is by giving honest history lessons that cover every part of our history in schools. I feel that American History and World History should be more emphasized on in our school systems and curriculum. If the students get the full education of our history and how we got to where we are, then moving on will become easier. We expect for children to lead us into a bigger and better future, but how can we expect that without the truth coming to light for our diverse culture. We cannot expect to make this country better without knowing their full history and the mistakes we have made in our past. Looking for another way to move forward, Essence asked Dr. Joy DeGruy on what we could do moving forward, her answer was, “…more research, support, and assistance are needed to produce vital healing…that exceeds the injury
One day during our history a war was commencing when countries found out the Germany Nazis’ were trying to make an up rise. These Nazis had hatred towards another religion, which are the Jews. The leader of the Nazis was Adolf Hitler, a dictator, who took every Jew in to a containment place where the Jews were tortured and brutally murdered. This Horrific aspect History should be taught in schools. Even though the brutality of some aspects may scar student but it shows how the world used to be. This will give students an open mind and exposed to the horror of a man trying to rule the world.
Furthermore, students should understand that change is consistent and the world will not operate the same way it did years ago. Understanding change allows one to pre...
More courses should try to incorporate 5 minutes of the class to get students focused and ready to learn. Sometimes students are too preoccupied with other problems that they do not focus on the present moment; making them less likely to focus on the course.
The Holocaust was a very important event in history that students should learn about. Some people believe that eighth grade students just simply aren’t mentally mature enough to learn about the Holocaust. The question at hand is should schools teach the Holocaust to eighth grade students? Are eighth grade students mature enough for the violence, the thinking, and everything that comes with learning about the Holocaust? Schools should teach the Holocaust to eighth grade students because it is important to teach the next generation about the past, the Holocaust confronts adolescents with everyday issues, and how students learn the Holocaust is very important to how they respond to the Holocaust.
This task offers students an opportunity to engage with topics that have immediate consequences in their own lives. Students consider a variety of print and multimedia texts about issues affecting their schools, neighborhoods, or communities, and may also wish to attend a town-hall meeting or to interview experts or those affected by the issue before determining their own stance. Of course the issues may be difficult for juniors to solve, but students should avoid describing or offering an overly simplistic argument. Instead, students should craft claims that propose a call to action or
The goal of an education is to gain knowledge to help improve one’s understanding of the world. If we shy away from topics like racism and cultural diversity, then we risk not being able to understand a huge part of the way our world works. Consider this: are all the people we converse with in a day the same ethnicity? Are they all from the same cultural background? If they all are the same ethnicity or from the same cultural background, then one might not need to understand why cultural diversity affects how someone would respond to a problem or situation. Let’s face it: the world is not homogenous there are multiple different races and cultures. We need to teach not judge others without getting to know them first.
Bringing this information to the classroom from a counselor perspective would be done in the developmental lesson and classroom activity. One activity can be, selecting one section of the book “I Am Malala” and asking the students to write their feeling in a form of a poem. These are examples of my own reactions to certain sections of the book. It would be an opportunity to bring awareness to students on how things are different and similar in other parts of the world. I would also like to show the following video to show Malala story to the students because it can be that many do not know who she
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” (Marcus Garvey). History is in everything. Writing this paper is history. Everything we do becomes history. That’s why we all must learn our own history and origin. Without it we are all lost. There is so much history, just in America, it can’t be taught by one generation. There needs to be teachers of history in every generation. Making sure their peers know of ancient history and the history of yesterday. Teaching history is what I am meant to do. First, I have to be taught how to teach, acquire skills, and get experience before I can teach a class of my own.
History is very important for everyone, and everyone should learn about history. Learning History can help to learn about people situation and life from the past. It also helps to know about many events and even some fact from the past. When people want to learn history, they should search about any subject or event from the past and tries to learn the both side of the subject. They also need to try to find what is hidden from that subject, so they can learn more about it. They also need to find out who wrote the subject that they learn about, for not all the historian show the bad side of the event, and they just show the good side. When people know they both side the can have a good judgment about the event. For example, before taking the
I want to set a culture in my classroom that promotes lesson plans that characterize student engagement and higher-level thinking, and to strive for each student to express his/her opinions and find connections from history to the present. I want my students to be actively engaged, and to focus on differentiation throughout my classroom so that each student has the same opportunity to learn. In my lesson, for example, I would use cause and effect, change and continuity, turning points, through their eyes, and using the past as ways to promote thinking like a historian (Mandell and Malone, 2007, p.12). I will strive for my lessons to be far more than just simple comprehension, and I want to allow my students to fully create and absorb an overall understanding of the topic at hand. My main focus will thrive from the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (NCSS). The NCSS (2008) states, “Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory
This class is all about these different interactions and what happened because of them. Additionally, this class teaches the ways in which citizens can partake in their civic duty that is granted by being a part of this democratic society. It is this class that teaches them how to do this and what it entails. The final question of how we should teach our students lies directly on the students. They should be our guiding way. Our teaching methods should provide for our students. In doing this, a variety of teaching methods are used to accompany a variety of learning styles. By knowing all of this and putting it into practice, it will create powerful and authentic social studies and will provide each child a way to succeed and enjoy Social
When most people think about history they remember a boring class they took in school a long time ago, they recall memorizing important dates, taking map tests, and falling asleep while listening to a lecture. The truth is that history really is an important subject to be teaching students. History is more than just some lecture you receive in class, history lets us look back, see the good things and the bad things, it allows us to learn from our mistakes and prevent such mistakes from happening in the future. Things that happened in the past are still changing things that are happening today. History is needed for everyone, from government leaders down to individuals; everyone has learned one thing or another from history at some point in their life.
Why and how should we teach social studies? This multi-faceted question is difficult to answer, but my personal reasoning for why we should teach social studies is that learning and knowing the discipline will allow students to have a higher understanding of the world around them and consequently they will be able to continue learning about it with the knowledge gained in the practice of social studies. As to how we should teach social studies, there are many ways. The most supported method is to teach it in a variety of different ways but to try and keep it a more student based lesson (Cantrell, 1972). This variety of methods allows for students who learn differently than others to have lessons based around their learning abilities and most of them are student based lessons therefore it has the students preform the work, which in turn forces and prompts them do the