Fostering Citizenship Competency

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Fostering Citizenship Competency

• Chapter 14

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The Nature of Citizenship Skills

• Essential Skills for Social Studies
• Illinois Learning Standards
• Textbooks

3
Social Skills

• Why is it necessary for children to become
  socially competent?
• How can teachers intervene to help create their
  competence?

4
Research and Analysis Skills

• Does an effective citizen need to know how to use
  reference tools? Why?
• Why should we move beyond the encyclopedia for
  information gathering?
• How do students develop perspective on issues?
• How do graphic organizers (graphs, maps, charts)
  enhance learning?

5

• Why should students learn to analyze data?
• What purpose is there in allowing students to
  graph their own data?

6
Chronology Skills

• Why do effective teachers of social studies use
  timelines to teach historical concepts?
• Why should students create their own timelines?

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Spatial Skills

• Why is it necessary for citizens to be able to
  orient themselves in space?
• How can developing spatial skills also enable us
  to shed stereotypical viewpoints of other places,
  peoples, and languages?
• What tools are available to teachers and students
  to bring distant places close?

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• What aspects of maps and globes create confusion
  for young learners?
• How can teachers make this abstractness more
  concrete?