Social Studies in Elementary Education

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MyEducationLab is an innovative web resource that brings to life the content and concepts you learn in your course, and exposes you to the realities of the classroom.

MyEducationLab is easy to use. In your textbook, look for the MyEducationLab logo in the margins of the text and follow the simple instructions to access these great resources.

Video: Easily assigned by topic, authentic in-class video footage shows how real teachers handle actual classroom situations.

Case Studies: A diverse set of robust cases drawn from our best-selling books expose you to the realities of teaching and offer valuable perspectives on common issues and challenges in education.

Simulations:   Created by the IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University, these interactive simulations give you hands-on practice at adapting instruction for a full spectrum of learners.

Student and Teacher Artifacts: Drawn from a vast archive of student and teacher classroom artifacts and tied to course topics, these offer students the chance to work with real student and teacher work.

Learn to Create Lesson Plans and a Portfolio: Effective and easy-to-use, the step-by-step Lesson Plan and Portfolio Builder enables you to create, update, and share standards-based lesson plans and portfolios.

Current News Articles and Readings:  The New York Times Educational News Feed and the database of readingsfrom ASCD’s journal Educational Leadership bring you current research news and articles about teaching and the field of education.

For more information, turn to the MyEducationLab walk-through in the preface or go to www.myeducationlab.com

Walter Parker teaches in the College of Education at the University of Washington in Seattle where he chairs the Social Studies Education Program. Earlier he taught at the University of Texas at Arlington.He studies K—12 social studies education generally and, in particular, civic education and the new international education movement. His other books include Renewing the Social Studies Curriculum (1991); Educating the Democratic Mind (1996); Education for Democracy: Contexts, Curricula, and Assessments (2002); and Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life (2003).He is the editor of the Research and Practice column for Social Education, the flagship journal of the National Council for the Social Studies. Walter was born and raised in Englewood, Colorado, on Denver’s south side, and taught school for many years in Adams County on Denver’s north side. He earned the B.A. in Political Science (University of Colorado, Boulder), the M.A. in Social Foundations of Education (University of Colorado, Denver), and the Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (University of Washington, Seattle). He lives in Seattle with his wife, Sheila Valencia.