Cantu Chapters 8 & 9

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Big Questions: If the standards for history are so clear and the scope of what students should be learning is outlined, why is it that we find so much repeating material in our classes?

If the civics standards are outlined so well, why is it that so many of our students do not know how the basic principles of our government work?

Loewen Chapter 6

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Big Question -  How do teachers present race and its history without shocking students too much? How do teachers cover all the material students have missed in the last years of education, so that they have a good foundation going forward?

Loewen Chapter 5

Big Question: If these new generations of students are not taught the true stories of slavery, how will they learn to understand modern slavery and the crisis happening in their lifetime? Or do we even want them to know about it? 

                                                         

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Technology Standards & Technology Integration

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  Big Questions

1. How do teachers who have been teaching for 25-30 years, and have learned to teach without technology, make their classrooms a 21st century classroom?

2. How does a teacher facilitate time to teach content and also teach students to use all these technology tools in order to use it for the content?

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Lesson & Unit Planning : Social Studies Teaching Strategies

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Big Questions
 What is a teacher to do if students are not engaging at all with any of his/her attempts to teach the classroom?

How does one ensure to cover all levels of Bloom's taxonomy without spending too much time in a lower level?

Social Studies and Common Core Standards

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Big Question: Could there ever be a set of standards that covers the national, state, and common core standards? What is the opposition to having just one set?

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