Social Studies
Ohio’s Learning Standards in Social Studies incorporate history, geography, government, and economics in order to prepare students to be participating citizens. Specifically, social studies:
• Helps students develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for themselves and for the common good;
• Prepares students for their role as citizens and decision makers in a diverse, democratic society;
• Enables students to learn about significant people, places, events, and issues in the past in order to understand the present; and
• Fosters students’ abilities to act responsibly and become successful problem solvers in an interdependent world of limited resources.
Guiding Assumptions for Ohio’s Learning Standards in Social Studies
• Set high expectations and provide strong support for social studies achievement by all students;
• Represent the social studies knowledge and skills needed to make a successful transition to post-secondary education, the workplace, and civic life;
• Are informed by national standards documents;
• Balance knowledge, conceptual understanding, and skill development;
• Address significant understandings that are the basis for sound decision-making as citizens;
• Focus on important social studies topics;
• Represent a rigorous progression across grades and in-depth study within each grade;
• Serve as the basis for classroom and statewide assessments; and
• Guide the development of local social studies curricula and instructional programs.
Testing:
Fairfield students are assessed by Ohio's EOC (End of Course) exams in the high school subjects of American History and Modern World History.