Social studies instruction

Social studies instruction

1. Motivation for language learning

2. Background knowledge

   • Culture: context within which people think, exist, feel, and relate to others

3. Curriculum development and program design

   • Tailoring content area instruction to meet the needs of students

4. Curriculum Development

   • Meaningful learning, acquired knowledge and cultural difference
     • Assumptions about students and prior knowledge of social studies

5. Effective teaching strategies

   • High effective strategies to look for language advantage
   • Language experiences
     • Shared experiences used for communication
       • Adapting the approach in classes
   • Directed reading thinking activity
     • To predict, read and prove

6. Use of manipulative and multimedia material

   • Pictures and visuals

7. Managing multilevel classes

   • Involving the whole class

8. Semantic webbing

   • Summarizing ideas in specific formats

9. SQ4R

   • New information

10. Paraphrasing and summarizing

    • "Who said this?"