Sarah Cooper

Creating Citizens

Teaching Civics and Current Events in the History Classroom, Grades 6-9

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With this essential book, co-published by Routledge and MiddleWeb, you will gain a variety of practical strategies for teaching civics and current events to your middle school students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 206mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138052871
• ISBN-10: 1138052876
• Artikelnr.: 49407220

Autorenporträt

Sarah Cooper teaches eighth-grade US history and is the Dean of Studies at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, California. She is also author of Making History Mine (Stenhouse, 2009). She presents at conferences and writes for Edutopia, MiddleWeb, and other education sites.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Meet the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Civics, and What Does Civics Education Mean Today?
Chapter 1: Fitting Current Events into an Already-Packed History Curriculum
Chapter 2: Staying Nonpartisan and Fostering Balanced Discussions
Chapter 3: Helping Students Find Their Stake in the News
Chapter 4: Teaching Civic Literacy Through Primary Sources, Then and Now
Chapter 5: Encouraging Students to Invest in Analytical Writing
Chapter 6: Fostering Student Ownership of Our Classrooms Through Discussion
and Debate
Chapter 7: Cultivating Citizenship Through Empathy and Community Engagement
Epilogue