Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
By October 1, 2024, all candidates for an endorsement in
Social Science-Sociology and Anthropology will be required to complete a
program aligned to the NCSS National Standards for the Preparation of Social
Studies Teachers (2017), published by the National Council for the Social
Studies, 8555 Sixteenth Street, Silver Spring MD 20910, and available at
https://www.socialstudies.org/standards/teacherstandards.
(No later amendments to or editions of these guidelines are incorporated.) The
standards effective until September 30, 2024 are as follows:
a) In addition to the standards for all
social science teachers that are set forth in Section
27.200,
those who specialize in the teaching of sociology and anthropology shall be
required to meet the standards described in this Section.
b) The competent sociology and anthropology
teacher understands culture and cultural diversity.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The competent
sociology and anthropology teacher:
A)
understands the ways groups, societies, and cultures address human needs and
concerns.
B) understands how data
and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives
and frames of reference.
C)
understands societal patterns for preserving and transmitting culture while
adapting to environmental and social change.
D) understands the importance of cultural
unity and diversity within and across groups.
E) understands specific cultural responses to
persistent human issues.
F)
understands the ways in which science and technology influence central societal
values, beliefs, and attitudes and how societal attitudes shape scientific and
technological change.
G)
understands societal changes resulting from science and new
technologies.
2)
Performance Indicators - The competent sociology and anthropology teacher:
A) explains the functions and interactions of
language, literature, the arts, traditions, beliefs and values, and behavior
patterns.
B) interprets patterns of
behavior reflecting values and attitudes that contribute or pose obstacles to
cross-cultural understanding.
c) The competent sociology and anthropology
teacher understands individual development and identity.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The competent
sociology and anthropology teacher:
A)
understands the ways cultural influences contribute to the sense of self (e.g.,
religion, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status).
B) understands the interactions of ethnic,
national, or cultural influences in specific situations or events.
2) Performance Indicator - The
competent sociology and anthropology teacher evaluates the impact of
stereotyping, conformity, altruism, and other behaviors on individuals and
groups.
d) The competent
sociology and anthropology teacher understands groups and institutions.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The competent
sociology and anthropology teacher:
A)
understands the concepts of role, status, and social class.
B) understands sociological theories related
to the formation, types, and stages of social movements.
C) understands major sociological theoretical
perspectives (e.g., structural-functional, conflict, symbolic,
interactionist).
2)
Performance Indicators - The competent sociology and anthropology teacher:
A) analyzes group and institutional
influences on people, events, and elements of culture in a variety of
settings.
B) explains the various
forms institutions take and how they develop and change.
C) analyzes how groups and institutions meet
individual and societal needs.
e) The competent sociology and anthropology
teacher understands social inequities.
1)
Knowledge Indicator - The competent sociology and anthropology teacher
understands relationships of social class, group relations, gender, race,
ethnicity, and age to social inequities.
2) Performance Indicator - The competent
sociology and anthropology teacher explains and applies ideas, theories, and
modes of inquiry drawn from anthropology and sociology in the examination of
persistent issues and social problems.
f) The competent sociology and anthropology
teacher understands cultural conformity and deviancy.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The competent
sociology and anthropology teacher:
A)
understands the sociological approach to explaining deviancy.
B) understands sociological theories used to
explain deviancy.
2)
Performance Indicators - The competent sociology and anthropology teacher:
A) assists learners in identifying and
analyzing examples of tensions between expressions of individuality and efforts
used to promote social conformity by groups and institutions (family, religion,
government).
B) explores the
relationship between inequity and deviancy.
g) The competent sociology and anthropology
teacher understands major principles of anthropology.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The competent
sociology and anthropology teacher:
A)
understands the cultural developments of prehistoric people, the influences of
ancient civilizations on modern cultures, and the cultural differences among
nations.
B) understands ways in
which cultures determine groupings (age, class, voluntary family and kinship
systems).
2) Performance
Indicators - The competent sociology and anthropology teacher:
A) explains ways culture organizes family and
kinship.
B) explains how
technology, environment, religion, art, and culture have affected personality
and behavior.
