Ways That Work: Putting Social Studies Standards Into Practice

By Tarry Lindquist

Faced with recent state and national mandates, many veteran social studies teachers are now required to explore new content and achieve new goals-often without any guidance. New teachers are at an even greater disadvantage, wondering what exactly they are supposed to teach and how to go about it. In Ways That Work , Tarry Lindquist provides some answers. Ways That Work is an idea book from start to finish, modeling several different ways social studies content can be organized in elementary and middle school classrooms. Each chapter: identifies a specific standard and a goal presents strategies to help you achieve the goal outlines how to put the strategies into place describes essential skills you can develop suggests ways you can incorporate other subject areas, especially language arts and literature presents proven assessment techniques concludes with a detailed bibliography of student books and references. Together, the chapters illustrate that there is no one way to teach social studies-that the magic of teaching social studies lies in the richness of the available content, the variety of strategies to choose from, and the diversity of viewpoints to explore. The value of Ways That Work increases as you make the strategies your own. Both preservice and inservice teachers will find it a source of fresh ideas for their classrooms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435089072
• ISBN13: 9780435089078
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 8

Customer Reviews

Lindquist makes Social Studies Fun

As a new teacher, I struggled with ways to bring Social Studies into my classroom without using lectures. Tarry Lindquist provides not only suggestions but complete lesson and unit ideas as well as resources and references. My students LOVED the ideas I borrowed from Ms. Lindquist, and I can't wait to use more of her inspirations this year.

Excellent resource for teachers!

Tarry Lindquist has done it again for teachers. In this book, teachers are given real strategies to put the newly adopted Social Studies standards to work. Using real-life examples from her own classroom, she shares an incredible wealth of ideas that are easy to put to work!