Zarrillo 11 Democratic citizenship

1
Zarrillo 11 Democratic citizenship
participating in civic life

• Housekeeping
• Values, virtues citizenship
• Democratic citizenship (Zarrillo-11)
• Coming up- 1/31- 2 pages summary of readings
• 2/5- quiz 1, Group 1- presents

2
Primary purpose of social studies

• The first goal of social studies
• What is the primary purpose of social studies?

3
Primary purpose of social studies

• Good citizenship is recognized widely as the
  most important goal of social studies.
• According to NCSS - the primary purpose of
  social studies is to help young people develop
  the ability to make informed and reasoned
  decisions for the public good as citizens of a
  culturally diverse, democratic society in an
  interdependent world.
• Why? P. 254

4
Social studies Democratic citizenship

• Ultimately, a free society must rely on the
  knowledge, skills, and virtue of its citizens and
  those they elect to public office. Civic
  education, therefore, is essential to the
  preservation and improvement of American
  constitution democracy (Zarrillo, 2004, p. 254).

5
Democratic values

• P. 267
• A look at a problem solving lesson plan
• P. 268-270
• How would you modify this lesson for a 3rd grade
  class?

6
Citizenship

• Take 20 minutes to answer the following questions
• Define citizenship education in your own words.
• What comprises citizenship education?
• What should citizenship education do for our
  students?
• What content should be covered why?
• What are the lope holes of depending on textbooks
  as the only source of information for our
  teaching?
• What are the competing perspectives of
  citizenship education?

7
Citizenship

• What are dispositions?
• In citizenship education, what do they comprise
  (p. 270-72.
• According to Zarrillo each of these can be taught
  in the elementary classroom in some way
• Read about public issues
• Discuss public issues
• Communicate with public officials
• Vote
• Take an active role in interest groups, political
  parties organizations
• Attend meetings of governing agencies, work in
  campaigns, circulate petitions, take part in
  peaceful demonstrations, contribute money to
  parties, candidates causes.
• Citizenship education should also teach students
  civic participation through participatory writing

8
In small groups of 3 List 3 activities for each
grade in the suggested areas

• See Zarrillo pages 260-270
• Lessons
• 2nd grade- rules laws
• 5th grade- Fair trials
• 6th grade- Solving a school problem

9
Service learning

• Define service learning
• What are the four criteria for service learning?
• How can you use service learning to teach
  citizenship education?
• In small groups of 3
• List type of service learning projects
  appropriate for each grade level K- through 6th
  grade

10
Citizenship classroom management

• How is citizenship education related to classroom
  management?
• Describe 3 things according to Zarrillo that
  Students at all grade levels should be allowed
  to do? P. 275.
• Any questions?
• Due 1/31- 2 pages summary of reading
• 2/5- quiz 1
• Group 1- presents