SOCIAL STUDIES

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The Social Studies Department provides courses in all three required areas of US History I, US History II, and World History. Elective courses available within the Social Studies Program include: Introduction to Education, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology, Holocaust Studies, and African- American Studies.

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Vision Statement

Know the past. Engage in the present. Impact the future.

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Mission Statement
The mission of Social Studies in Linden Public Schools is to prepare our students to become informed and engaged citizens of an ever increasing, globally interdependent world. Our focus as Social Studies educators is to ensure that students’ experiences in our classrooms are meaningful, real, and authentic for all learners. We challenge our students to engage the world around them and strive to find resolutions to both local and global problems. These are the challenges we equip our students to confront, discuss, and address throughout their lifetime. In the end, Social Studies teachers have the highest expectations for all students; we will instill discipline, hard work, and progressive thought through a rigorous instructional model.

 

Goals

• To foster an understanding of the processes which are critical to solving complex problems, and to

  engage students in the regular practice of those problem-solving skills.

• To enable students, through interpretation of historical facts, to analyze information and to fully

  engage in higher-level thinking.

• To promote knowledge of the core content of historical, political, economic, legal and social issues of

  our world, nation, and community.

• To help students see the world from different perspectives- those of the historian, the geographer, the

  economist, the political scientist, the psychologist, the lawyer and other social scientists- and employ

  the different tools and techniques of each discipline in critical thought.

• To guide our diverse student population in realizing their potential as citizens of a democratic nation

  and members of our local community.