Re: What kind of notes do you give and how do you give them?
Posted by: Kev on 7/01/09
On 6/30/09, Social Studies Teacher to Kev wrote:
> I've never been into social studies. I am a science
> person myself. I had to
> teach social studies the past few years and I think
> it's by far the hardest subject to teach.
Interesting, that's what I'd say about science :p Social
studies is just sitting around telling stories all day.
Humans have done that forever!
>I was looking
> at your powerpoint movies on youtube and I find them
> absolutely fascinating! How much time does it take you
> to do one of these powerpoints?
Well, I'm going on six years now of working on them... I've
honestly never sat and counted the hours for just one. I'd
say an average slide takes about 20 minutes if you include
all the video encoding, picture finding and animations.
Some take 2 minutes, some take an hour but on avg I'd say
15-20 mins.
As far as the videos, I just started those in February and
I'm almost done with them. Probably 10 hours or so each to
write up the script, automate the PPT and put it all together.
I know you had to major
> in history, but did you learn everything you have to
> teach in your state?
From college? Heck no. I learned a ton about Modern Latin
History and China in college...
>Do you have to do research in order to provide more input?
>How do you know what to put in your powerpoints withouth
>using the textbook?
I go strictly by the standards and our district tests. Once
that is covered I put in what I feel is needed to build the
story for each unit. My research comes mostly from the web
and lots of documentaries.
> I would be absolutely lost. Even the standards don't make
> much sense to me unless I read info from the text.
There's nothing wrong with using the text for research
purposes. I relied on it a ton when I started teaching. I
just don't use it much in class for student work. They use
it when they need to research though.
