SOCIAL STUDIES

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TEACHING
APPROACHES IN
S E C O N D A R Y
SOCIALSTUDIES

There is joy in Social Studiess

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Research on the
Different Teaching
Modalities Appropriate
in Teaching Social
Studies
Why we utilized
different
method/strategies in
teaching social
studies?

IT HELPS TO
DEVELOP SKILLS
OF LEARNING
AND TEACHING
Social Studies
T E A C H I N G M E T H O D
Based on the Research of Job Clement Williamson (2016)
 Unit Three
TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING
SOCIAL STUDIES

Word Study
Dramatization - making something exciting than it really is.
Method - particular way of doing something

Simulation - is the creation of particular condition that

exists in real life.

Strategy - an intended plan for achieving a purpose.
Technique -a skilful way of doing something.

 INQUIRY METHOD
It is simply a method to find out. It involves experimenting,
probing, investigating, questioning, searching thinking,
analysing, evaluating and so on, with a view to acquiring,
updating or validating knowledge in Social Studies. the use
of inquiry method in Social Studies a arises out of the
curiosity or inquisitiveness of the user.

ONE MAJOR ADVANTAGE OF THIS METHOD

IS THAT IT TEACHES THE STUDENTS HOW
TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES.
 DRAMATIZATION
It simply means imitation, though it is more than this
becauseit involves practising, initiation, conforming,
playing, singing, dancing, controlling, participating, and so
on in the Social Studies teaching and learning process.
Meanwhile, the following are the benefitsthat can be derived from this
method:
-It trains the learners in the skills of listening patiently, carefully and
courteously.
-It helps to develop in the learners the sense of respect for the opinion of
others.
-It gives the individual member of the group the chance to learn the
planning strategies, the logical and sequential procedure of the
dramatization.
-It develops in them the attitudeof cooperation and desirable specialskills.
DISCUSSION
METHOD
This is the act of talking over subjects from various points
of view and the teacher acts as a moderator. The teacher
should not dictate or influence students’ view points, but
should motivate them using questions, which can make
them reason rather than recall.

-It develops positive interpersonal relationship because it enables

studentsto interact with their teachers and mates to gain from each
other.
-It can be used to introducea lesson, to motivate students’ activities and
explain accompanying procedure.
-It enhances learners’ confidenceand boldness.
It promotes clarity of information.
PROBLEM SOLVING
It involves the use of scientific approachto teaching-
learning process.It enables the learner to become aware of
the fact that there is an orderly procedure or stages in
thinking and doing things.

PROBLEMS SOLVING SHOULD BE CHILD-

CENTRED. THAT IS, THOSE PROBLEMS
THAT ARE FOR THE LEARNERS AND NOT
TEACHER’S PROBLEMS.
LECTURE METHOD

The active teacher who does all the talking

throughout the lesson and the passive learners
who merely listen or take down notes of the
important points in the lesson characterizes it.
It is also known as chalk-and-talk method
because the teacher does the talking alone
throughout the lecture period.
 QUESTIONING
METHOD
It is the most commonly used techniques in
teaching, though it is often used in discouraging
manner. It involves the teaching of the learners
asking questions throughout the lesson, that is,
from the beginning to the end. It develops in the
students the habit of critical thinking, enhances
learners’ performances and fosters teacher’s
presentation in the lesson and in fact, it makes
lesson interesting, lively and emotional.
 FIELD TRIPS
These are out-door lessons being organized for
the students. They are for relevant observations
and for obtaining specific information. Students
become actively engaged in observing, collecting,
classifying, studying relationship and
manipulating objects or exploring their
environment.
 DEBATE METHOD
It is an argumentative formal discussion
organized between two or more groups
among the learners on a particular topic
of interest. This method is purely learner-
centred because learners are involved
mostly in the discussion, the teacher is
just a moderator or an observer or a
facilitator.
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