Jona Welle
Professional Portfolio
Knowledge
- Culture and cultural diversity.
- Ways human beings view themselves in and over
time.
- People, places, and environments.
- Individual development and identity.
- Interactions among individuals, groups and
institutions.
- How people create and change structures of power,
authority, and governance.
- How people organize for production, distribution,
and consumption of goods and services.
- Relationships among science, technology and
society.
- Global connections and interdependence.
- Ideals, principles, and practices of citizenship in
a democratic society.
Skills
- Read critically and actively, social studies
literature.
- Effectively apply information technologies to
teaching secondary social studies.
- Apply multiple perspectives to understanding the
social world in teaching secondary social studies.
- Develop strategies for promoting social
responsibility among secondary social studies students.
- Apply an integrated understanding of concepts in the
social sciences and history to teaching secondary social studies.
- Plan and provide a variety of learning opportunities
to meet the developmental needs of diverse learners that challenge secondary
social studies students to think critically and creatively, be active learners,
and interact with fellow students.
- Design and use multiple assessment techniques that
demand a high level of performance among secondary social studies
students.