Social Studies Skills

This course aims to introduce educators to fundamental and contemporary social studies skills. Skills are an integral part of teaching and learning social studies. There are three types of skills in social studies that every educator needs to teach their students: observation and monitoring skills, communication and interpersonal skills, and the skills to read tables, charts, and graphs (specialized skills in social studies). The course will focus on how to teach and learn these skills. These skills are not only important in social studies, but they are also crucial in daily life situations. Communication skills and interpersonal skills are key factors in building harmonious relationships with others, while observation skills involve gathering, analyzing, and applying information. Reading charts, tables, and graphs is a part of social studies, involving interpretation and prediction. Hence, all these skills are integrated into the fundamental social studies skills that educators must master.