TELL ME AND I FORGET

SHOW ME, I REMEMBER

INVOLVE ME I UNDERSTAND
 What is Social Studies?
The study of how people live
and organize themselves in
society, embracing geography,
history, economics, and other
subjects
 Why we study it?
1. It teaches and trains people to be good citizens and nation builders, it does this by
helping students to develop good skills, habits and positive attitude towards the nation.
2. It enables people to know and use the resource of their physical environment very well.
3. It helps young people and adults to understand the modern
world.
4. Social studies trains people to be effective leaders and good
followers.
5. Social Studies makes people understand their culture
and the culture of others. Thus people can appreciate
their differences and the need to live as one society.
6. Social Studies help us to develop a good sense of judgement
and a sense of moral and social responsibility. This enables us
to become useful members, not destroyers of our society and
nation.
7. Through Social Studies we develop
our curiosity about our environment.
 What are the three scopes of Social
Studies?
(i) Economics: This area deals with the way of
living and managing resources in the society.
(ii) Religion: This area deals with man's
relationship with God his creator.
(iii) Sociology: This is an aspect that deals with
man's relationship with others in the society.
 Significance of Social Studies Program
• Social studies education helps students
understand the world they live in, so they can
make informed decisions about issues
affecting them, especially when they grow
older. Through social studies, students
develop historical thinking and literacy as a
way of navigating our world.
TRENDS AND ISSUES IN SOCIAL STUDIES
• SOCIAL TRENDS
OBJECTIVES:
- Understand the meaning of social trends
- Explain the role of trends in many aspects
- Realize the various trends that are already
taking place at present.
Social trends can be defined as any type of activity
that is participated in by society as a whole

• Trends can be long lasting and short lived.

• Social trends have been a part of life since the
beginning of time. Society reacts to certain
stimuli, whether it is a type of music, fashion
or activity. These trends are not always
created by the majority, but the majority or
society does typically follow
 Elements of a Trend
• Number of participants
• Pattern of behavior
• Long period of time
• Cause
• Consequense
• In economics, it is a general movement
registering statistical changes for a longb
period such as the increasing cost of living and
rate of unemployment
• In politics, it refers to a tendency, drift, or
bend toward a certain stance, thought, or
policy as when democratic Southest asian
countries favored authoritarianism
government at a certain point in their histories
• In sports, it can be the wearable device that
monitor training performance.
• In food, it is the rise of oatmeal products,
inclusion of moringa or malungay in food
products
• In medicine it can be the stem cell treatment
• In travel, it is the paperless tickets and online
check-in
• In manufacturing it is the 3D painting
• In enviromental management, it is the home
solar electric system
• Trend 1: Closing the Achievement Gap

The public school movement of the mid-1800s was

geared to getting children into schools at public expense
(private schools for the wealthy were already well
established) That public school movement was quite
successful. But once access to schools was extended to all
our children, Access to good curriculum and instruction
within them depended largely on the social class race, and
gender of the child. To some extent, it still does
• Todays teachers are expected to work hard to
educate the diverse children of todays classrooms
and to create more successful ways of doing so
than have been developed thus far. Access to (i.e,
inclusion in) high-quality curriculum and
instruction is the goal. To this end, today’s teachers
are expected to know the content and skills they
are teaching- from world geography to reading-
comprehension skills-as well as instructional
methods that will help children learn this things.
Some Trends in the Philippine Education
• The use of E-books
• Online Education
• Online Enrollment
• Online viewing of grades
 Trend 2:
• Assessment, Accountability, and the Global
Achievement Gap
There are three main purposes of testing:
1 to improve teaching and learning;
2. To sort and place students in special programs
and
3. To hold schools accountable to parents and
the public.
• As a consequence, testing time in schools has
increased dramatically.
• Here’s a second problem: It is not only the
administration of such tests that concerns teachers-
the time and energy they spend on them-but also
their effect on what is taught to children and how.
Evidence shows that teachers realloate
instructional time so as to teach to the test, and
their principals often demand it. The result is called
curriculum narrowing
Which is the intense focus on reading and math
(and now, in some places, science) to the
exclusion of social studies, art literature, and
music.
 Some Trends in the Philippine Education
System
• Elementary
• JHS
• SHS
• Tertiary
– Work Immersion of ist batch of grade 12 students.
80 hours aren’t still enough to get them employed
after graduation.

– Fake news: Removal of the Kto 12 Curriculum

– Free tuition approved
 Trend 3: Globalization and 21st Century
Skills
• Globalization is not new but today it is different because
it is intensifying.
• One kind of globalization is widening the rich-poor gap
around the world in the name of new markets, free
trade and cheap labor
• A recent report warns, Thanks to globalization, driven by
modern communications and other advances, workers
and virtually every sector must now face competitors
who lived just a mouse –click away in ireland, Finland,
China, India, and dozens of other nations whose
economies are growing
• Another kind of globalization- political rather than
economic- is spreading human rights; pressure is being
put on oppressive governments for liberal reforms such
as freedom of speech and religion as well as gender and
racial equality.
• Still another kind of globalization – information and
communication technology (ICT) – has brought us social
networking, virtual friends and avatars, micro-blogging,
and online auctions, encyclopedias, and video games;
meanwhile airplane travel, computers, and cellphone
technology are defeating distance itself
• And shrinking the world. This communications
revolution is, in turn, fueling just about
everything else
Some of the Philippine Trends caused by the
21st Century and Globalization
• LGBTQ + Community
• Food business
• Online business
• The rise od social media
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Youtube Vlogging
 How are Educators responding?
- One popular way is to strengthen world language
instruction in the elementary grades. In an increasing
number of schools, all children( not only the children
of immigrants whose mother tonque is something
other than English) are studying a second language
beginning in kindergarten In other words, students
whose mother tonque is English are increasingly
expected to learn a school language and to learn
school subjects such as Math and Social Studies in
that second language.
• In addition to this world languages emphasis,
the new school reform initiative mentioned in
trend 2, the partnership of 21st century skills,
is aiming for “a holistic view of 21st century
teaching and learning” that focuses on 21st
century student outcomes. Key skills and
themes are:
Learning and Innovation Skills
/ Creativity and Innovation Skills
/Critical thinking and problem solving skills
/Communication and collaboration skills
/Information, Media and Technology Skills
/Information Literacy
/Media literacy
/ICT Literacy
/Life and Career Skills
/Flexibility and Adaptability Skills
/Initiative and Self - Direction
/Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
/Productivity and Accountability
/Leadership and Responsibility
/Global Awareness
/Financial, Economic, Business and
Entrepreneural Literacy
/Civic Literacy
/Environmental Literacy
• Global awareness is already a central feature in
the Social Studies Curricullum: World
Geography (societies near and far) and world
history (humanity now and then) are at its core.
• The trend now is to look again at these core
aspects of the social studies curricullum and
strengthen them a longside the “21st century
skills.” This means, for example, that students
should study not only their own community
But also, quoting the partnerships, social studies
skills, Map, they should “access information
about communities around the world from a
variety of information sources,”
 Trend 4: Democracy
• Accordingly, democracy is much more than a
political system; it is a way of life – a way of
being with one another, and not just with friends
and family but also with strangers, whether in
the city hall, a faculty meeting, or the classroom.
It is certainly not a perfect path; in fact, it is
frustrating, conscientious, and exasperating. The
only thing worse than democracy, the saying
goes, is all of the alternatives.
• If democracy is to be the vision that holds our
diverse society together, then the people must be
educated for it. The simple truth is that there can
be no democracy without democratic citizens.
• Research has been clear that if we expect
democratic behaviour from adults-tolerance of
diverse religions, for example, and knowing how to
participate in government- then we must begin
their democratic education in the primary grades
and build from there.
Trend 5: Making the Literacy-Social Studies
Connection
• The newest trend in integrated (interdisciplinary)
education is to teach social studies through
reading and writing instruction and vice versa,
Actually, talented teachers have long done
precisely this. But because reading and writing
achievement are now subjected to intense, high-
stakes testing, which sometimes pushes social
studies instruction to the side-lines, this wise
practice is becoming now more common, indeed
it’s a hot new trend.
• Literacy researchers understand that “studying
language is the foundation of all schooling, not
just of the language arts. In Social Studies,
students construct knowledge of the world using
language. It is not as if reading, writing, speaking,
and listening can be walled off from the content
areas. (Social Studies, Math Literature, Science,
Poetry, Music, etc), rather these skills are the
gateway to and the medium for learning any
subject. This is
True both for early learning, such as learning the
difference between countries and continents,
and for advanced learning as well, such as
understanding the difference between
democratic and aristocratic countries on the one
hand and between the economies of Europe and
Africa.
• Throughout the Elementary and middle school
years, student today are exposed to a greater
variety of academic genres and types of texts
and are increasingly expected to learn from
them. Informational texts are increasingly
being taught and read alongside narrative
texts.
Trend 6: History, and More History
• Every major curriculum report in recent years has
called for more emphasis on history. Some argue
that history is the single discipline that unites all the
fields within social studies. Others point out that the
humanities, including art, music, and philosophy-
can also be taught through historical study.
• Instead of focusing almost completely on political,
military, and diplomatic events, there is much more
concern with social history- how average people
lived, worked and played.
• Religion, ideas, art and music, entertainment
and sports are important aspects of human
life and should be included in the study of any
historical period.
• Moreover, history has become more inclusive.
Students are learning about all peoples and
cultures who have preceded us on this planet.
Trend 7: Attention to Ethics and Values
• Todays social studies programs are beginning
to encourage students to examine the role of
the individual in the society and the
responsibilities and behaviours that lead to a
just and fair nation. Sometimes referred to as
“civic virtue,” these qualities include a sense
of fair play, a respect for minority rights,
tolerance of other beliefs, and a desire to
actively participate in a democratic society.
Trend 8: Increased Attention to the Role of
Religion
• Teaching about the impact of religion in
history and contemporary society is closely
linked to multi cultural and ethical education.
Knowing about, comparing and understanding
about religious beliefs is a key element in
developing tolerance and a comprehension of
one of the primary motivating factors in
human affairs