Resource Blog 4

The resource I found for this blog post is an academic journal by the name of Social Education. Social Education prides itself for being at the forefront of social studies global discussion and its publications serve to help social studies educators learn new ways to serve their classrooms. While the journal itself is a paid resource, the academic journal has free articles that it releases to the public that do not require a membership. Social Education also has deals for current students and beginner teachers, cutting the cost of a yearly membership by around a third.

Social Education is an important resource to have because it constantly provides social studies educators with resources and data backing up how to best utilize educational strategies in the classroom. One of the resources that I read detailed the importance of knowing how and when to lecture in the classroom in order to keep students not only focused, but also constantly learning. Social Education also has numerous entries emphasizing the importance of content area literacy in the social studies classroom, through primary source documents and critical thinking strategies when it comes to reading historical documents. Social Education is a great resource that is worth the money and can help social studies educators everywhere expand their pedagogical repertoire.

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