Professional Organizations



There are professional organizations for everything. If there is a profession, you are certain to find a group related to it. As a student at Notre Dame of Maryland University, I am working to become certified as a social studies teacher at the secondary level.

The National Council for the Social Studies is an organization which can prove very helpful to the new or experienced social studies teacher. Their website has many useful features and can be found here:

http://www.ncss.org/

One of the most important features, National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: A Framework for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, can be found here:

http://www.ncss.org/standards/curriculum

Social studies teachers may also be interested in the National History Education Clearing House:

http://teachinghistory.org/

Their web site includes a database of state social studies and history standards. Maryland's standards can be found here:

http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/state-standards?keys=&tid=187&tid_1=All