Can Social Studies Preservice Teachers Create Student-Centered Classrooms?

• In Event: 45.094 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Seven - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 45.094-6 - Teaching Social Studies Teachers

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore what students’ perceptions were of their classroom experience with their social studies preservice teacher. Through descriptive statistical analysis, this study found that secondary social studies students experienced a student-centered classroom the most, while they experienced cultivation of a classroom community the least.

Author

• Sarah J Kaka, Ohio Wesleyan University