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2. What are the most important understandings that my students will need to develop, and how do these connect to one another and to related skills, values, and dispositions?
Key Topics Major Understandings 1.
2. 3. 4.
Select a unit you have taught or plan to teach. Examine it carefully to determine whether it is reflective of the principles identified in this chapter for selecting and developing content. Where it is not, revise your plans accordingly. Share the results with a colleague. As you teach the unit—with the enhancements—be mindful of the changes. In your reflective log, document the results.
Principles
Principle 1
Use contemporary and familiar examples to help students understand how and why the social system functions as it does with respect to the cultural uni- versal under study.
Principle 2
Include a historical dimension illustrating how human responses to the cultural universal have evolved through time due to inventions and other cultural advances.
Principle 3
Include a geographical/cultural dimension that exposes students to current variations in human responses to the cultural universal.
Principle 4
Develop each topic with emphasis on its applications to students’ current and future lives.
Examples of Application
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