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Our Social Studies Teachers are World Class
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow”
John Dewey
The Social Studies program at Monmouth Regional High School gives students a window to the world. Authentic learning experiences are embedded into the curricula and are designed to infuse global studies into all content areas. The Social Studies department is a part of a broader Professional Learning Community along the World Languages department. Teachers periodically engage in collegial exchanges including peer coaching, team teaching, action-research, and other activities designed to maximize student learning. Opportunities for students extend beyond the state requirements of World History, United States History I and United States History II; students may choose from the following electives:
- African Studies
- Economics
- Holocaust, Genoicide and Modern Humanity
- Introduction to Psychology
- Law and Popular Culture
- Sociology/Minorities in the United States
Advanced Placement:
- Government and Politics
- English Literature and Humanities
- European History
- Human Geography
- Psychology
- Macroeconomcs
- United States History
- World History
DID YOU KNOW?
- Since 1994, students taking the Advanced Placement American Government course have exceeded the national average on the A.P. Government exam?
- Students in Audrey Dill's AP Psychology classes continue to exceed the national average on the A.P. Psychology exam?
- Psychology teacher, Audrey Dill, has received national recognition as the Teacher of Psychology in Secondary Schools, TOPPS?
- Students in Jen Haggerty's AP World History classes, as ninth graders, have consistently scored higher than the national average on the AP Exam? They are competing against upper-classman who traditionally take this exam nationwide.
- Service Learning programs in the department have been in existence since 2002?
- United States History classes taught by Dave Locke regularly feature re-enactors who share their dramatic expertise with our students?
- In 2010, Joe Nappi was named MRHS teacher of the year? He joins department member Audrey Dill who has also attained this distinction?
- In 2018 new teachers Paulina Macaluso (AP Economics) and Michael McParland (AP Government/Politics) joined the ranks of all of our AP teachers who have exceeded a 3.0 overall average on their respective AP exams?
- In 2019, Tara Domanich was named MRHS teacher of the year. She joins Audrey Dill and Joe Nappi as members of the department who have attained this distinction
- In 2019 Joe Nappi was one of only 20 teachers nationwide selected to participate in theJuly 2019 Museum Teacher Fellowship Program at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.