Abstract
This chapter offers a description of the secondary social studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, which was revised during the 2009–2010 academic year. The focus of the revised program was to strengthen pre-service teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge by bridging the instructional gap between the School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences. This collaboration resulted in the development of content courses designed specifically for social studies teacher licensure candidates and methods courses taught within both the School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences. Based on our observations and feedback received from cooperating teachers, the combination of these efforts have strengthened our pre-service teachers’ classroom instruction. In this chapter, we describe our collective efforts, which we believe offer a blueprint for developing positive working relationships between faculty in Schools of Education and the content experts in Colleges of Arts and Sciences.
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Notes
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The other secondary education programs (language arts, mathematics, science, and foreign language) are housed within the College of Arts and Sciences. The social studies program is housed in the School of Education primarily as a coordinating function for the various academic disciplines that are eligible for social studies licensure.
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The UNCG history department acknowledges that a large percentage of its students are secondary education licensure students and has regularly taken steps to recognize those students. For example, each year at the history department graduation they recognize an outstanding graduate who sought teacher licensure with a commemorative gift of a free year’s membership to the National Council for the Social Studies- ->.
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Although we are happy that the current program addresses these topics, we are not satisfied with the delivery of these courses. The one-credit hour online modules have been a topic of discussion since the implementation of this program, and we are currently working on making most, if not all, of them face-to-face seminars.
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The syllabi for any of the history courses can be found by going to http://www.uncg.edu/his/courses/syllabi.html. Readers interested in the TED553 syllabus can email Wayne at awjourne@uncg.edu.
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Another purpose of this course is to prepare pre-service teacher- ->s - -> who are history majors for their capstone research course, HIS 511.
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The Reading Like a Historian curriculum can be found at http://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh.
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The Teaching With Primary Sources Program can be found http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps. The World History For Us All program can be found at http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/. The Beyond the Bubble program can be found at https://beyondthebubble.stanford.edu/.
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Journell, W., Tolbert, L.C. (2016). Working Together, Not Sharing the Burden: A Collaborative Approach to Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge with Secondary Social Studies Pre-service Teachers. In: Crowe, A., Cuenca, A. (eds) Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education in the Twenty-First Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22939-3_7
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