Modeling Powerful Social Studies: Bridging Theory and Practice with Preservice Elementary Teachers
This article reports on the practice of a teacher educator in an elementary social studies, teacher education course while he attempts to promote a view of powerful social studies teaching and learning through modeling powerful social studies lessons and publicly sharing his thinking about the lessons as they unfolded. Findings from this self-study of practice describe the challenges and highlight the potential of using modeling in teacher education as an intellectual and pedagogical method to facilitate preservice teachers’ learning about teaching social studies.