Assessment Description
Educators use standards to guide the instruction they provide to students. Social studies and the arts are no different. These broad content areas have organized standards to help educators guide their planning and instruction. Understanding standards? rationale and design allows an educator the ability to effectively plan and prepare instruction for social studies and the arts.
In preparing for this assignment, explore the national and state standards for social studies and the arts including correlating resources. In a 500-750 word narrative, respond to these prompts:
Briefly describe the relationship between the NCSS themes, National Social Studies Standards, and social studies standards for the state of New York. Briefly explain the arts standards for New York State. If your New York does not have their own art standards, refer to another state or the national art standards. Explain how these resources affect planning and instruction.
Describe how social studies and the arts content are connected or can be connected.
Using the social studies and the arts standards, analyze how implementing these standards in the classroom is important to the individual student and society.
Explain three challenges of meeting all the social studies and/or the arts standards over the course of a school year in an inclusive classroom. Describe how to address these challenges as well as the value of teaching social studies and the arts in the inclusive classroom.
Support your arguments with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.
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