Title

Elementary Education Major Gets Attention of Official at N.C. DPI

Authors

Office of University Communications

Files

Description

“We have to start teaching social studies in the younger years, as this is a time in the children’s lives when they begin to develop social, problem-solving, and certain societal attitudes and views that will influence the rest of their lives.” These words written in a blog by Sarah Haywood, a student in the Gardner-Webb School of Education, recently gained the attention of Fay Gore, Section Chief for K-12 Social Studies at N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI). “It was my second post of the social studies methods class, about why the subject of social studies was such a crucial subject to teach in elementary schools,” Haywood shared.

Publication Date

11-3-2015

Publisher

Gardner-Webb University

City

Boiling Springs

Keywords

Dr. Jason Parker, elementary education, Faye Gore, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Sarah Haywood, School of Education, social studies

Recommended Citation

Office of University Communications, "Elementary Education Major Gets Attention of Official at N.C. DPI" (2015). Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive. 1056.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/1056