Chapter 2

Chapter two is all about the standards used when teaching social studies. Common Core has recently been implemented primarily for language arts and mathematics. Social Studies uses ISBE state standards and the National Curriculum Standards when teaching within Illinois. A small portion of the language arts Common Core standards are dedicated to literacy of historical documents and other sub topics of social studies. As I am training to become a teacher at the K-9 grade range, I find social studies standards to be confusing because there are so many different groups of standards. Also these standards can be vague so that teachers teaching the material in different schools may interpret the standard in a completely different way. I do like how ISBE has the different documents for each sub topic for social studies. I will find this helpful in the future when creating lesson plans. If I am wanting to do a history lesson, I can easily find the grouping of standards by looking up the history document from their website.