PRELIMS

• Social Studies


  Direct relationship of human society and man as a member of social groups
• Civic Competence


  Combination of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that enable a person to perform real-world tasks
• Problems of Democracy (POD)

  
  

  The First subject offered in the Social Studies in 1916
• Harold Rugg wrote an influential Social Studies textbook series during the 1930s
• Ideology


  How individuals envision and interpret the world
• Social Science


  Scientific study of man, singly or in groups, as regards their essentially non-physical characteristics
• Humanities


  Academic discipline that studies aspects of society and culture, including the fundamental questions asked by man
• Citizenship education


  Social Studies aimed to prepare students for civic engagement and participation in the country's affairs
• The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people make informed and reasoned decisions
• Social Studies aims to develop awareness and understanding of contemporary social issues
• Enculturation happens when children are immersed into a democratic way of life
• Social Studies teachers must display his disposition while maintaining what they are teaching in the classroom
• Good life should be the personal quest of humans for both the benefit of the individual and society
• Social Studies education develops the capacity for wisdom in each person
• Critical thinking was characterized as intellectual integrity, observation and interest in testing opinions and beliefs
• Civic Identity


  A set of beliefs and emotions about oneself as participant in the civic life of a community
• Social Studies teachers' actions and identity express a moral perspective
• The pursuit of the good life is a personal quest of humans for the benefit of the individual and society
• Social studies teaching is considered a craft
• The teacher must not just be knowledgeable in content as well as their pedagogical ways
• Teaching as a profession must entails reflective practice
• Teachers are encouraged to ponder on how they taught Social Studies
• Teachers are encouraged to put dissatisfaction on how Social Studies was being taught
• Social Studies teachers consider their moral activity
• Social Studies teachers must be objective towards different issues
• Social Studies teachers taught students to acquire learning one's culture
• Social Studies heighten students' perspective of cultural subjectivity
• Social Studies teachers must innovate and be open to different methods in teaching a lesson
• Social Studies teacher's roles

  • Course manager
  • Classroom manager
  • Mentor
  • Change agent
  • Planner
  • Scholar
  • Advisor
  • Instructor
• Curriculum approaches in Social Studies

  • Expanding Environment Approach
  • Horizontal and Vertical Articulation
  • Themes
  • Constructivism
• Expanding Environment Approach

  
  

  Concepts and ideas from Grade 1 are carried into succeeding Grade levels
• Contructivism

  
  

  Social Studies lesson concentrates on innovating and creating new ideas, skills and outputs
• Horizontal and Vertical Articulation

  
  

  Specific topics per quarter are connected to the concepts being carried in succeeding grade levels
• Themes

  
  

  Lessons can be developed based on a certain topic of interest in a Grade Level
• Expanding Environment Approach

  
  

  Lessons about environment are observed in various grade levels
• Branches of Social Science

  • Geography
  • History
  • Political Science
  • Economics
  • Sociology
  • Anthropology
• Geography

  
  

  A teacher wants to discuss human interactions with the changing climate conditions
• Anthropology

  
  

  A section visited the Dumagat tribes in Tanay to understand their language and dance
• History

  
  

  You asked your students to distinguish the difference between wars and revolutions
• Economics

  
  

  Studying the market to understand the purchasing powers of a consumer