Position : Subject Matter Expert – Social Science
Role Summary :
The Social Science Subject Matter Expert will provide academic and disciplinary leadership in the design, development, review, and continuous enhancement of the Social Science curriculum. The role requires solid expertise across the social sciences and the ability to construct a coherent, intellectually rigorous progression of knowledge, concepts, skills, and disciplinary thinking.

Responsibilities :
Curriculum Architecture:
• Lead the development and review of curriculum frameworks, learning outcomes, scope and sequence, and knowledge progression.

• Establish progression from foundational knowledge towards conceptual sophistication, disciplinary reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and independent inquiry.

• Build coherence across History, Geography, Political Science/Civics, and Economics, while preserving the distinctive methods and intellectual traditions of each discipline.

• Identify essential concepts, knowledge structures, disciplinary practices, and threshold ideas that students must develop.





• Ensure alignment with CBSE curriculum expectations, competencies, learning outcomes, and assessment frameworks.

Academic & Disciplinary Rigor :
• Ensure historical accuracy, geographical precision, economic reasoning, political literacy, and academic integrity across curriculum content.

• Develop students' ability to interpret society through evidence, argument, causation, chronology, spatial relationships, systems, institutions, and competing perspectives.

• Move beyond content coverage towards deep understanding of why events, systems, institutions, and social processes develop and how they shape human experience.

• Encourage students to interrogate assumptions, distinguish evidence from opinion, and construct reasoned, defensible arguments.

• Engage meaningfully with complexity, ambiguity, multiple perspectives, continuity and change, and contested interpretations.

Inquiry & Learning Design :

📌 SME- Social Science (Bengaluru)
🏢 Harvest International School, Bangalore
📍 Bengaluru