In my own education career, I want to firstly graduate with my bachelor's degree. After this I plan to go back and get my master's degree to become a reading and writing specialist. While accomplishing my higher education, I want to teach in the Providence school district. Providence has the lowest academics, resources, and attendance rates. However, there is something I enjoy about being surrounded by students who look like me. I want to show them that it is possible to reach their goals, no matter what struggles they may face along the way. I want to help my students become more than a statistic, helping them reach their goals, big or small. Currently, I am taking my elementary education class on teaching social studies, below I am reflecting on aspects of teaching this topic.
Primary sources allow a look into the past and serve as a way to learn from it. They allow students to use their curiosity and wonder to examine and interpret these sources. When going about incorporating and selecting my own primary sources, I began with things related to my lesson topic. My focus is Puerto Rico, so I selected sources that relate to PR, and can be built on. Primary sources cultivate wonder, curiosity, and inquiry-based learning by getting students to ask questions. Asking questions inspires thinking and gets the mind moving. Using primary sources opens to gateway to questions, which naturally leads to thinking. Questions can be simple or dive deeper into certain focuses. One example of this is QFT method. This technique focuses on students looking at a primary source and writing down any question they may have. To ask questions, students must analyze. These concepts go hand in hand, allowing wonder and curiosity to be naturally reached. Below is an example of a primary source related to Puerto Rico. I will present this to my students and allow them to use QFT to come up with questions. I do value incorporating primary sources not only now, but in my future teaching as well. It is important to show the past and compare it to the future. There is a lot to learn from what there once was, I find a lot of value in that.
Primary sources foster historical thinking by providing history. A primary source takes a piece of history, presents it to students, and then fosters analyzation. When being confronted with a piece of history, students can't help but think of why or how things used to be. It opens up a lense of wonder and allows students to look at things through a different perspective. Considering how primary sources bring about multiple perspectives, it does this by supporting individual views. Not every student will view things the same way, primary sources give us and insight into individual viewpoints. It naturally invites discussion of these different views, allowing conversations to naturally open up. I persoanlly see a lot of value
No comments:
Post a Comment