Abstract
There are two areas of content in schools, academic and social. The academic content is driven by standards, the social content by public education's mission to prepare young people for citizenship. A dilemma for teachers is how to teach all that needs to be covered in class. "How can education for citizenship and democracy be added to an already overburdened school curriculum?" Education for democracy includes the acquisition of a body of knowledge, intellectual and participatory skills (National Assessment Governing Board, n.d.) and civic dispositions (Carnegie Corporation of New York & CIRCLE, 2003). This paper describes why and how this content can be blended into a classroom organization plan, which I teach in my Organizing & Managing Diverse Classroom course.
Recommended Citation
Stevens, Rebecca
(2009)
"Adding Citizenship Preparation to a Classroom Organization Plan,"
Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/tejsc/vol2/iss1/5