Teaching Social Studies to Multilingual Learners in High School: Connecting Inquiry and Visual Literacy to Promote Progressive Learning

Teaching Social Studies to Multilingual Learners in High School: Connecting Inquiry and Visual Literacy to Promote Progressive Learning offers effective strategies for teaching studies to diverse learners. It uses a visual literacy framework to integrate inquiry, primary source analysis, and visual literacy, providing a progressive learning sequence to meet the varied needs of learners. The book is organized into two parts, with the first three chapters providing content and context and the remaining chapters discussing civics, U.S. history, world history, geography, and economics and social sciences.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2021
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Teaching Social Studies to Multilingual Learners in High School: Connecting Inquiry and Visual Literacy to Promote Progressive Learning is a comprehensive guide that explores effective strategies for imparting knowledge to diverse learners. At its core, the book presents a visual literacy framework that seamlessly integrates inquiry, primary source analysis, and visual literacy to create a progressive learning sequence tailored to meet the diverse needs of students. This framework brings together various aspects of progressive, sequential learning into a cohesive whole, offering teachers a flexible structure to customize learning activities to meet the unique requirements of individual students.

The progressive learning sequence employed in this book employs a range of teaching modes to facilitate students' journey from basic to proficient to advanced levels of support. The first three chapters of the book provide essential content and context on social studies, multilingual learner education, and the visual literacy framework. These chapters serve as a foundation for the subsequent chapters, which delve into civics, U.S. history, world history, geography, and economics and social sciences. Each chapter offers a comprehensive definition of the subject area, traces its historical development as a high school subject, and presents classroom exercises that utilize the visual literacy framework. These exercises are carefully designed to explore different levels of the visual literacy framework throughout the book.

By integrating inquiry, primary source analysis, and visual literacy, Teaching Social Studies to Multilingual Learners in High School: Connecting Inquiry and Visual Literacy to Promote Progressive Learning offers a powerful approach to teaching social studies to multilingual learners. This book provides teachers with valuable insights and practical tools to create inclusive and engaging learning environments that foster students' academic growth and social development. Whether educators are working with students who speak different languages or have diverse cultural backgrounds, this book offers a wealth of knowledge and strategies to support their teaching endeavors.

Weight: 277g
Dimension: 217 x 157 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475858396