Creating Citizens

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

Sarah Cooper (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-05286-4 (ISBN)

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Engage students in meaningful civic learning and encourage them to become active and informed citizens. 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. Author and expert teacher Sarah Cooper takes you into her school and shares her classroom-tested methods and tools.

Topics include:

Fitting current events into an already-packed history curriculum
Staying nonpartisan and fostering balanced discussions
Helping students find their stake in the news
Teaching civic literacy through primary sources, then and now
Encouraging students to invest in analytical writing
Fostering student ownership of our classrooms through discussion and debate
Cultivating citizenship through empathy and community engagement

Throughout the book, you’ll find student examples, handouts, and rubrics, so that you can easily implement the ideas in your own classroom. By getting your students to think critically about current events, you will help them become passionate writers, thinkers, and involved citizens.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	1-138-05286-8 / 1138052868
ISBN-13	978-1-138-05286-4 / 9781138052864
Zustand	Neuware