MR Title(s): Beyond Personally Responsible in Press
MR Source(s): Nancy Patterson, Frans Doppen, Thomas Misco Page #
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In the survey, teachers were asked to
indicate what they viewed as the purposes of social studies by rank-ordering seven items. Even in the context of high-stakes testing and content knowledge expertise, the citizenship purpose ranked highest among the provided options, followed by developing language art skills and teaching content knowledge.
I am not surprised by this because citizenship is
the center of most things in social studies. The ODE and NCSS are both all about citizenship. It is the one thing they have in common. It is a huge thing in the social studies field.
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The personally responsible teachers said
you should vote and be more involved in your community as a definition of citizenship.
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Melissa defined a good citizen as law
abiding and knowledgeable about our government, other governments, functions of our government, history behind our governmenttwice she emphasized
I believe this is a nice definition of citizenship. It
is simple and to the point. There are more things you can do as a citizen to have better citizenship than just voting and being involved in your community though. I agree with this definition as well. I like the idea of following the laws and being knowledgeable about our government but I think that voting should definitely be a part of the definition of a good citizen.
following the laws.
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Karen pushed the idea that her students
should be able to reason through arguments, identify bias in different kinds of media and examine several viewpoints.
When I become a teacher this is going to be
something that I hope to help my students with. Looking at the information given to you and determining whether or not it is a credible source or if its bias is important in several areas of life. Brandon argued good citizens should be Brandon kind of combined a few of the previous able to get information about issues, read teacher ideas. He said petitioning, voting and and understand the information, and then being able to use information is important to act by either voting, petitioning, or creating being a good citizen. By page 13, I agreed with opportunities to change. Brandons thoughts the most. The Justice Oriented group said that we should advocate letter-writing, petitioning and running for office to be great citizens. CONNECTIONS: BP3s sources were all about how democracies rank against each other and how America isnt the greatest country in the world anymore but one day we can be the best again. I think BP3 is connected to this Blog Post because if we use what these teachers are saying and try to do all these things to be better citizens then one day, our democracy as a whole will become stronger. If we are teaching kids to be great citizens and teaching them how to do so, they will help make our democracy great again.
Petitioning and running for office are great ways
to be good citizens but I dont believe that is something you have to do to be a good citizens.