Focal Discipline: Social Studies Types of Questions: Anna and Emma In order to generate thought and critical thinking, social studies classes have to ask two types of questions, according to the National Council for the Social Studies,  “compelling and supporting questions” (National Council, pg. 23).  What exactly these types of questions generate in a student’s… Read more

How will I as a teacher… Evaluate their claims and ways with words? Engage newcomers in my discipline in cycles of inquiry? In order for me to evaluate my students claims in a social studies class room, I would have to examine their sources’ credibility. I would have to look at their sources’ author in… Read more