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Why Civic Values
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Civic Eduation
Ilana May
What is Social Studies
Social Studies
Social Studies is the umbrella term for any educational content that broadens students' understanding of how indidivuals and groups operate and develop. It is often referred to as civic education.
Knowledge
Over the course of 13 years of education, students can expect to know the history of their own country and of global events.
Knowledge
Skills
Skills
Teachers aim to foster in their students an ability to think critically, to hold firm values and belief systems, and to contribute to society in positive ways. These are civic values.
Role of Civic Values
Civic Values
Civic values allow students to understand how they can engage with society and other people in their communities.
Sense of Self
Sense of Self
When social studies curricula include explicit teaching of civic values, students are able to develop a stronger sense of identify as they flesh out their own ideas about the way the world works and what is important to them.
Awareness of Others
Awareness of Others
A well rounded social studies curricula should expose students to a variety of types of people and culture. This diversity in content will help students to become more open minded members of society as they grow up.
Societal Participation
Societal Participation
Social studies curricula should include opportunities for students to put their knowledge to use. Teachers can plan activities and classroom practices that model how average citizens participate in our governmental systems.
Teaching
Teaching
Civic values can be taught in isolation, as part of a social studies lesson, or simply included in the classroom culture.
As curriculum is often provided to teachers via textbook, ways to teach can be pulled from the textbook resources or teachers can get creative. As students today are digital natives, teachers also have to consider digital modes of instruction as well.
Activities
Teachers have to incorporate activities that cultivate civic values in students. Some examples are as follows:
1) Writing letters with a purpose
2) Mock elections/trials or simulation of other governmental procedures
3) "Homework" that requires students to do good for their community
Activities
Class Culture
Class Culture
Teachers can incorporate civic values in the following ways:
1) A classroom practice of voting and following majority rules
2) Having class jobs to encourage responsibility
3) Class contracts created by the students and teacher together
Textbooks
Teachers can use textbooks and the relevant plans in the following ways:
1) Pre-teaching vocabulary before instruction of new content
2) Learn from primary sources and compare/contrast to secondary sources
3) Utilise the materials and activities provided in the teachers' editions of the textbooks
Textbooks
Technology
Technology
Students can use technology to learn in the following ways:
1) Videos on the topic being taught
2) Online "choose your own adventure" games that are set during critical moments in history
3) Digital textbooks to support differentiated learning (translation into other languages, read alouds, knowledge checks as students progress