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As an educator, I have a responsibility to nurture my students' thirst for 
knowledge and challenge them to think deeply, analytically, flexibly and 
imaginatively by creating a positive learning environment that will result in 
a greater intrinsic desire for the students to learn.  As a social studies 
teacher I have the privilege of encouraging not only my students cognitive 
reasoning skills, but also their moral, personal, and social reasoning 
skills.  I strive to encourage adolescents to think for themselves, exchange 
viewpoints, and seek the intrinsic value of 
learning at every opportunity.

Social Studies, to me, is the most fascinating subject one can teach, as it 
allows the learner to pursue answers to the widest range of questions about 
the human struggle and its course through time.  I believe that, especially 
for adolescents, the examination of social studies is vital to their 
development, and that knowledge has excited me to educate this particular age 
group.

This subject challenges students' analytical abilities because students are 
asked to organize and evaluate a mass of facts and to arrive at a valid 
conclusion or analysis.  It also challenges their personal thought process by 
which they reach judgements by forcing them to examine the past events 
through by way of several different perspectives therefore laying pathways 
for their own future decision-making.

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Mrs. Maher - Gold Team - 7th Grade Social Studies