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Throughout the semester we have been learning and growing as future teacher candidates, and through the knowledge I have gained I believe I have composed a philosophy on the best way to teach social studies by answering three questions what is social studies, how we should teach it, and what makes me a good candidate for Social Studies Education. My philosophy of teaching social studies is to prepare my students to be informed, competent citizens, in which they use skills they learned in my class to make decisions and form their own beliefs.
The first question we covered in class this semester is what is social studies? As a student who has been taking a social studies course since I started school and a future social studies teacher candidate, …show more content…

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