ED 357 Teaching Social Studies and Visual Arts

This course is designed to familiarize students with history and social studies instruction in elementary classrooms and methods of integrating social studies with other content areas. Emphasis is placed on developing planning and using assessment strategies that help teachers differentiate instruction through the use of multiple instructional models and developing strategies to help children understand their world through literature, art, music, drama, and dance. Supervised field experience will provide the opportunity to observe strategies that are introduced. Field experience: 10 hours. Prerequisites: a grade of C or better in ED 200SL and PSY 341. (3)