Best Practice in Elementary Social Studies from the SSYL Editorial Board

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Best Practice in Elementary Social Studies from
the SSYL Editorial Board

• Friday, December 1, 2006
• 915-1115
• National Council for the Social Studies
  Conference
• Room 103A
• Washington D.C. Convention Center

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Honoring Sherry Field

• Words of Praise
• Presentation
• Recognition of Past Advisory Members

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Review of SSYL

• Distribution of Social Studies and the Young
  Learner
• Surveys

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Introduction to the SSYL Advisory Board

• Brandie Sleeman 
• Tim Keiper
• Janet Alleman
• Eric Groce
• Patricia Watson (Pat)

• Barb Knighton
• Mary Fortney
• Paul Nagel
• Chrystal Johnson
• Ann Claunch
• Linda Bennett

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Presentations

• Supporting Struggling Learners in Social Studies
• Barb Knighton
• Hometown Project
• Ginger Smith
• Kimberly Pearre
• Authenticating Historical Fiction
• Rationale Process
• Eric Groce

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Supporting Struggling Learners in Social Studies

• Barb Knighton
• bknighton_at_waverlyk12.net
• Winans Elementary School
• 517-321-2371

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Classroom Community

• Big Picture Goals
• Safety--Physical, Emotional, Educational
• Team Building Activities
• Success for All

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Using Cultural Universals

• Personal Connections
• Making the Familiar Strange
• Utilizing Family Resources
• Empowering Learners

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Student Motivation

• Teacher as Example Community Member
• Modeling
• Storytelling Style
• Artifacts
• Visual Support

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Authenticating Historical Fiction Rationale
Process

• Eric Groce
• Appalachian State University

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Use of Historical Fiction

• What is it?
• Why should I use it in the social studies
  classroom?
• Book selection
• So, whats the problem?
• Other sources

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Categories

• Romanticized accounts
• Viewpoint author background
• Viewpoint date of publication

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Categories

• Stereotypical descriptions
• Notable omissions expansions
• Anachronistic details

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End Product

• Paper with research tone/focus
• Graphic representation
• Oral dialogue

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Benefits of Authentication

• Substantial integration
• Critical literacy/ thought processes
• Historical understanding
• Communication skills

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• people of the past were just not us in odd
  clothing. They were people who saw the world
  differently approached human relationships
  differently people for whom day and night, heat
  and cold, seasons and work and play had meanings
  lost to an industrialized world. Macleod (1998)

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Closing

• Thanks for returning your surveys and keep the
  journal
• Complete session evaluations
• Visit with presenters
• Join board members for an informal discussion
  about manuscripts

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Learn more about SSYL

• http//www.socialstudies.org/teachers/SSYLGuides
• ssyl_at_missouri.edu