Blog Post #5

Blog #5

Social Studies Inquiry Design Model Final Reflections💬

Three things I've learned and something I'm still wrestling with...

1. The IDM and C3 framework (I didn't know about C3 before this class) help give teachers a way to teach social studies that is relevant and accurate. It allows for teachers to create opportunities for students to explore civics, history, economics, and geography in ways that help build skills and knowledge that translate into children who become more capable of successful futures. IDM helps students understand their world and make connections to the past through age old racist, status quo promoting standard history lessons while promoting more authentic engagement and learning. 

2. I've learned a lot about how important asking the right questions are. I feel like I still struggle at coming up with good compelling and supporting questions. Some of the video examples that we watched and articles that we read really helped see the value of having high quality questions. 

 

3. I've really gotten to see how much more creative and flexible teachers can be and how it can meet the learning needs of students better than just following traditional social studies curriculum plans. I also appreciated the couple articles that had reflections on their lessons or projects. Reflective thinking is obviously a very big part of growing towards mastering inquiry based teaching in the classroom. 


I still struggle with applying this to preschool age learners. Project-based and inquiry learning is definitely what makes sense to me for young learners, but trying to fill out the blue prints and design the lesson plan has been challenging. I sometimes struggle with how to meet standards or themes in a developmentally appropriate way -- if that makes sense.

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