TLT 431, Social Studies in Middle Level and High School Education (Spring 2020)

Dates/times/locations

• Course meets Wednesdays, 7:25-9:55 pm
• Iacocca Hall, room A-110
• First class = Wed, Jan 22; last class = Wed, May 6. No face-to-face class on 3/11 (Spring Break)

Topics/assignments

• Syllabus.
• Course record (an ongoing list of class sessions, resources, etc.--the enacted curriculum)

Toolbox

• Lehigh's content management system: coursesite.lehigh.edu.
• List of social studies journals
  
  • Online open-access
    
    • Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education: Social studies section
  • Available online through the Lehigh Library
    • Social Studies Research and Practice
      • 2006-2015 (vol 1-10)
      • 2016 (vol 11) – you have to root around on their site; it's a couple different places: https://www.socstrpr.org/
      • 2017- (vol 12-)
    • Journal of Social Studies Research
      • The Social Studies (fulltext available online)
    • • The History Teacher (fulltext available online)
      • The Elementary School Journal (fulltext up to 2004; note that they periodically have special issues on topics like social studies)
  • Other
    
    • Theory and Research in Social Education – you can get abstracts online; I can help you track down fulltexts
    • Social Education – can search their archive if you are a member of NCSS (and you should become a member!)
• Useful tech links
  
  • Lehigh wireless
  • Lehigh printers
  • Lehigh VPN
  • SSH 3.2 (Lehigh's licensed secure FTP client)
  • Lehigh's electronic portfolio (Mahara) community
  • Lehigh's Google Docs server.