Teaching of Integrated-Social Studies

Abstract

The teaching of social studies is the course which its contents are integrated with present society. Due to containing many teaching contents with various fields such as economics, geography, history, culture, and so on, integrated instruction is teaching method by using any topics the students can apply background knowledge or experiences into implementation, problem solving, management, and circumstance speculation. This is important for the process of learning and teaching management in the 21^st century.

The process of the teaching and learning management in an integrated-social studies course must be focused on learner-centered instruction and integrative teaching styles which must consist of various methods so that the students can learn and apply integrated learning and teaching techniques, training the students to seek answers with inquiry manners, using the problem solving, focusing on the blending of cooperation and individual work , and focusing on students’ participation within authentic experiences. The learning experiences should be scoped with students’ learning effectiveness. Therefore, the array of teaching content attributes must be considered, including student attributes as well as have the students practice in the real situation.

In teaching social studies, the multidisciplinary instruction is the integrated-learning management which various teaching and learning contents in many fields are harmoniously blended under the same course by emphasizing on knowledge in holistic manner rather than knowledge divided into parts. Moreover, it can unboundedly integrate the teaching and learning activity management with the use of teaching and learning media or innovation in order to make the teacher in social studies be enthusiastic and develop themselves always in teaching. Therefore, the teaching of social studies is truly-integrated science.