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The document contains notes from two sources about social studies standards and philosophies. The notes summarize that the Ohio social studies standards were revised with five main goals, including communicating essential concepts and skills, manageability for teachers, and preparing students for the 21st century. Social studies is meant to provide a common set of expectations and assess students' civic competence and ability to incorporate different fields of study. The standards are designed to teach real-world skills beyond single disciplines and help students develop understandings to participate in shaping their future.

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The document contains notes from two sources about social studies standards and philosophies. The notes summarize that the Ohio social studies standards were revised with five main goals, including communicating essential concepts and skills, manageability for teachers, and preparing students for the 21st century. Social studies is meant to provide a common set of expectations and assess students' civic competence and ability to incorporate different fields of study. The standards are designed to teach real-world skills beyond single disciplines and help students develop understandings to participate in shaping their future.

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Two-Column Notes

Date:

Name: Carson Firestone

Class/Subject: EDTL 2760

MR Title(s): ODE Philosophy Statement, NCSS What Is Social Studies?


MR Source(s):
Ohio Department of Education. (2010). Ohio's new learning standards: Social studies standards. Retrieved from
http://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Ohio-s-New-Learning-Standards/Social-Studies/SSStandards.pdf.aspx

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National Council for the Social Studies. (1994). What is Social Studies? Expectations of Excellence: Curriculum
Standards for Social Studies. Washington, DC: NCSS, 1-3.
The Text Says
I Say
The revision process focused on five
I think this setup is a very good way to
primary goals. The newly revised standards establish standards because it has 5 main goals
were to communicate the most essential
that it wants to achieve. Goals and standards
concepts and skills. They were to be more
are very similar and help both students and
manageable for teachers and allow
teachers see what the results of the class are
teachers to elicit a greater depth of
supposed to be and gives them something to
understanding on the part of students.
strive for throughout the course. I also like that
There was also to be a clear progression of it outlines what grade to grade progression
content from grade to grade. Course syllabi should be so that students are not just passing
were to be developed for high school
the course and not being prepared for what
courses. And finally, the revised standards
comes next.
were to be designed to meet the needs of
students in the 21st century.
Ohios social studies content standards
The key to this section is that these standards
serve as a basis for what all students
and philosophies provide a common ground for
should know and be able to do in social
all social studies students and teachers in
studies by the time they graduate from
schools. It allows them to be able to compare
high school. These standards are intended
their content and see how students stack up to
to provide Ohios educators with a set of
other school districts and get an idea of how
common expectations upon which to base
successful the teachings are.
social studies curricula

One of the primary goals of standards


revision was to develop an integrated
system of standards, model curricula and
assessments that meets the needs of
students in the 21st century. As a
participating member of the Partnership for
21st Century Skills (www.p21.org), Ohio
has worked to integrate many of the skills
from the Framework for 21st Century
Learning directly into the new standards
As a field of study, social studies may be
more difficult to define than is a single
discipline such as history or geography,
precisely because it is multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary and because it is
sometimes taught in one class (perhaps
called "social studies") and sometimes in
separate discipline-based classes within a
department of social studies.

The new Ohio standards are designed not just


to teach history and social studies but to help
with skills needed to be successful in the 21st
century. This helps students learn practical
skills such as global awareness and financial
literacy which they will need as they leave high
school and go out into the world.

Two main characteristics, however,


distinguish social studies as a field of
study: it is designed to promote civic
competence; and it is integrative,
incorporating many fields of endeavor.

This means that social studies teaches students


how to function in real life situations and how to
be a productive member of society. It has a
wide range of topics and allows for us to learn
skills that will allow us to be successful both
professionally and in our everyday lives as
adults.

The more accurately the K12 social


studies program addresses the
contemporary conditions of real life and of
academic scholarship, the more likely such
a program is to help students develop a

Students use the skills they learn in social


studies to help provide for themselves in the
future as well as develop their own political
views and thoughts. Social studies teaches
kids how to help shape the world and their own

Social studies covers such a wide range of skills


and topics that it is often difficult for people to
describe or understand. My way of describing it
is by saying that it is a study of the world and
how it works and well as studying the people in
it. Social studies helps students understand
real world skills that cannot be confined to one
discipline or skill.

deeper understanding of how to know, how future into one that they want.
to apply what they know, and how to
participate in building a future.
Connections to previous MR:
These articles are the content of the social studies courses that many kids in todays world do not like
to learn. These topics are often not exciting and sometimes very difficult to understand for kids. This
often drives them away even though these skills are some of the most important thing that they will
learn in their entire scholastic careers. These are topics that everyone must use once they are older
and are not only helpful in certain scenarios, but some of these topics are used to help shape everyday
thoughts and opinions of society and politics.

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