My Definition Of Social Studies In The Future Classroom

As a child, my definition of social studies was learning about historical events by reading them in a textbook that weighed more than me at that time. I thought we learned about past events to help prevent these types of events from ever occurring again. As a child, social studies was not a subject that I hated, but it was a subject that could put me to sleep. I don’t even remember learning that much about social studies in elementary school. Once I got into high school is when I realized that learning about social studies was more than the study of historical events, it is the study of people, places, events, cultures, and current events. It is important to teach social studies because students need to learn about past and present events that …show more content…
I want to be able to use all the different types of learning styles and incorporate them into my lesson to try to help each student out. In addition, I believe that it is important to integrate education with environmental factors and social interactions. Everything I plan on teaching my students I will try to show them how it will relate to a real world situation that could happen to them now or in the future. In my future classroom, I will lean more towards a student-centered classroom. This type of classroom setting will give the students a chance to interact with other students and create communication and decision-making skills. Students will also be given an opportunity to learn differently in the classroom by learning a topic by group work, role-playing, interviewing other students and having debates in a classroom. I believe in blending humanism and constructivism in a classroom. As a future educator, I see my views relating to the ideas of Johann Friedrich Herbart. His philosophy deals with respect to a child individualism, the moral strength of a student and connecting what you have already learned previously to help towards learning a new topic. I see my views are like him because I want to respect my students and let them grow mentally. I want to be the one who challenges them and gives them the chance to develop while learning and experiencing new and struggling situations. I want the student to always be able to apply what they learned in school to the actions that go on in the world around