A learning community in the primary classroom

This book, resulting from a collaboration among an educational psychologist, a social studies educator, and a primary teacher, describes in rich detail andillustrates with excerpts from recorded lessons how primary teachers can engage their students in social studies lessons and activities that are structuredaround powerful ideas and have applications to their lives outside of school.The teaching portrayed connects concepts and skills emphasized in national and state standards, taught in ways that build on students’ prior experiences intheir local communities and connect with their family backgrounds and home cultures.

• ISBN: 978-0-8058-5574-6
• Editorial: Routledge
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés