Need Strategies for addressing the standards? Need strategies to make your classroom more interactive this school year? Take a look at these 43+ Strategies for Meeting ANY Educational Standards in the Social Studies classroom. More importantly, implement these strategies to make your classroom more engaging for your students!
Keep in mind that standards are written in the hopes that you will meet a specific goal with your students. How you get there is up to you! Varied strategies not only keep students engaged, but research shows they help the brain process information better. Better processing means greater retention!
43+ Strategies for Addressing the Standards
- I’m starting with this post with Quick Tips for Teaching Geography. While it is for a Geography course, the strategies suggested can apply to any course and can keep your students engaged from day 1.
- This next Quick Tips post introduces strategies for Introducing New Content! It suggests changing things up to keep students excited about learning.
- Teaching Cause & Effect is a standard across curriculums and one that is required in every single district. It is a foundational learning tool, and this post gives you a number of great ideas for teaching the skill.
- Even before the common core standards were introduced, teachers taught Informational Texts. This post gives you tried and true strategies for keeping it real!
- Teaching with Primary Sources is another task for teachers across all curriculums and through all grades. This post lists off the options so you can check all the boxes on your standard’s list.
- When the Common Core or State Standards came out, we all took off trying to wrap our existing standards into the new morph. What we eventually realized was that the old was not that different than the new. This post addresses the standards, but provides Sound Strategies for any classroom and any standard.
- Another Great List can be found in this attack on the standards. See if the ideas will work in your classroom with your standards.
- Do you Use Texts in your classroom? The term text took on a whole new meaning with new state standards, but this post sets the record straight on what is and isn’t text! Find strategies and tips along with that clarification!
- We all teach Vocabulary! It’s a must in every classroom and students usually dread the boring vocabulary lessons. Change it up with these strategies!
- Examining Text Structure was a new one for many states, but it was really just an old chore with a new name. Take a look at this post for different ways your students can evaluate their resources while addressing the standards and reaching beyond.
- If we all understood how to interpret Point of View, we would live in a world with much less conflict! Take a look at these strategies to help your students learn this valuable skill!
Need More Strategies for Addressing the Standards?
Be sure to jump over and read my entire series on Teaching the Standards in the Social Studies Classroom. They will help you break down each standard and will provide strategies that work best in teaching them.
And one other thing to consider… Why are you working toward the standards? That’s an interesting question we all need to answer before we ever step foot into the classroom. What’s your answer?
Happy Teaching!
