Interview and Standards Investigation



Interview and Standards Investigation

Introduction

For the students to learn and for the teachers to study, social studies is an intricate subject. This is because social studies cover a vast variety of the disciplines and courses. In addition, the society and community of the people is distinguished by the more and more swift technological and social revolutions that have an effect on the contents in the social studies that are educated to the students (NCSS, 1988).

The students are enforced to learn, for lots of years, the information and knowledge of the cognitive level that is deficient in the meaning and not succeed in transferring to the situations and scenarios of the real life. Due to these kinds of reasons the Social studies is the most unloved and insufferable subject of the students (Hope, 1996). It is better to come across to the future events more willingly than criticizing on the erroneous events of the past.

Additionally, learn from the educational and academic mistakes of the past to resolve what efforts can be done to strengthen and rejuvenate the instructions of social studies. By this attempt, the respect and affection by the teachers and students for social studies will be restored (Hope, 1996). The execution of the national and state principles has been a significant step in the creation of these occurrences.

The examination will assess the Standards of the Social Studies in state of the Arizona for the sixth grade. This evaluation will assess the clarity, thoroughness, comprehensiveness, and user friendliness. The academic, objective and well supported response to the interview conducted with a teacher of sixth grade i.e. Ms. Traci Smith at the Will Rogers Junior High School in Claremore will also be provided in this assessment. Additionally, the standards investigation will also be analyzed that how the subject of social studies is educated at present.

Standards of Social Studies

The strands of the fifth and sixth grade history are contained in the website of the Arizona Department of Education. These threads put emphasis on the World history from its initial and primitive cultures through the Enlightenment which comprises of the untimely cultures of the United States. The standards of the Arizona State for the sixth grade are enormously thorough and contain the threads of the Civics/Government, World History, American History, Economics and Geography. All of these strands are with performance objectives and well explained concepts for the students at the level of sixth grade.

The definition of the social studies according to the NCSS is that all of these subjects play a significant role in the education of the social studies. The guide lesson learning and planning is helped by the thoroughness of these standards as the teachers identify precisely what they should teach and the students know closely what will they learn so as to attain knowledge. By their topic, the standards for social studies of the Arizona State are very evidently and noticeably defined. This comprehensibility and clarity makes them easy to comprehend and ...