N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.461 - Social Studies Program, July 1, 2015

(a) Pursuant to Ed.306.26 and Ed. 306.27, the local school board shall require no later than July 1, 2015, conditioned on legislative approval, that a social studies education program be provided for each k-12 student in each school.

(b) The program shall prepare students both civically and historically literate, by including planned learning strategies and opportunities that:

(1) Provide students with teaching and instructional practices that:

a. Support a foundation for citizenship by providing students with an understanding of the legacy of our republic and its enduring themes enriched by the study of the full human experience;

b. Investigate social studies through the development of practices that are integrated with core ideas and crosscutting concepts;

c. Build grade level appropriate social studies concepts from k-12;

d. Focus on deeper understanding of social studies content as well as application of that content;

e. Experience the integration of technologies into social studies;

f. Prepare students for college or career, and citizenship; and

g. Connect social studies to mathematics, language arts, science, and other content areas;

(2) Provide students with knowledge, vocabulary, and experience of the following social studies practices, integrated with crosscutting social studies concepts and core disciplinary principles:

a. Differentiating past, present and future and change over time;

b. Detecting cause and effect, distinguishing fact from opinion, recognizing biases;

c. Evaluating and critiquing varied sources of information and the use of appropriate primary and secondary sources and technology to acquire information;

d. Creating and testing generalizations and theses;

e. Expressing clearly and concisely personal opinion supported by evidence;

f. Calculating the material and ethical effects of decisions and decision making; and

g. Solving individual and group problems;

(3) Provide students with knowledge and experience of the following crosscutting social studies concepts, integrated with social studies practices and core disciplinary principles:

a. Conflict and cooperation;

b. Civic ideals, practices, and engagement;

c. People, places and environment;

d. Material wants and needs;

e. Cultural development, interaction, and change;

f. Global transformation;

g. Science, technology, and society;

h. Individualism, equality, and authority;

i. Patterns of social and political interaction; and

j. Human expression and communication; and

(4) Provide students with appropriate learning progressions that provide knowledge and experience in the following core disciplinary areas, integrated with social studies practices and crosscutting social studies concepts:

a. Civics and government in the following areas:

1. Nature and purpose of government;

2. Structure and function of United States and New Hampshire government;

3. The world and the United States' place in it; and

4. Rights and responsibilities;

b. Economics and personal finance in the following areas:

1. Economics and the individual;

2. Basic economic concepts;

3. Cycles in the economy;

4. Financial institutions and the government;

5. International economics and trade; and

6. Managing personal and family finance;

c. Geography in the following areas:

1. World in spatial terms;

2. Places and regions;

3. Physical systems;

4. Human systems; and

5. Environment and society;

d. United States and New Hampshire history in the following areas:

1. Political foundations and development;

2. Contacts, exchanges and international relations;

3. World views and value systems and their intellectual and artistic expressions;

4. Economic systems and technology; and

5. Social and cultural; and

e. World history and contemporary issues in the following areas:

1. Political foundations and development;

2. Contacts, exchanges and international relations;

3. World views and value systems and their intellectual and artistic expressions;

4. Economic systems and technology; and

5. Social and cultural.

(c) Each district shall establish and provide a comprehensive, sequential k-12 social studies education curriculum designed to meet the minimum standards for college and career readiness that ensures for continued growth in all content areas consistent with RSA 193-C;3, III; RSA 186:13; and RSA 189:11.

(d) For social studies education programs in grades K-12, schools shall provide for the ongoing, authentic assessment of student learning outcomes through multiple formative and summative assessment instruments that are aligned with the state and district content and performance standards.

(e) Examples of such assessment shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) Teacher observation of student performance;

(2) Competency-based or performance based assessments;

(3) Common assessments developed locally; and

(4) Project evaluation rubrics used to evaluate social studies education proficiencies applied to integrated curriculum assignments, extended learning opportunities and out of school learning environments.

(f) For social studies education programs in grades 9-12, schools shall additionally provide courses comprising offerings in the following elective areas:

(1) One half-credit of world history;

(2) One half-credit of geography or global studies; and

(3) One half credit of one of the following:

a. Sociology;

b. Anthropology;

c. Psychology; or

d. Philosophy;

(g) Competencies in personal finance shall be a mandatory component of the required economics course.

(h) For all social studies programs, schools shall demonstrate how school and student assessment data are used to evaluate, develop, and improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Notes

N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.461

Amended by Volume XXXIV Number 16, Filed April 17, 2014, Proposed by #10556, Effective 3/27/2014, Expires3/27/2024.

The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 35, Number 27, eff.6/29/2015 is not yet available. The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 36, Number 06, eff.1/8/2016 is not yet available.