Tuesday, October 28, 2009
Place: Bender Room, Carnegie Hall, Mills College
Time: 8:30 AM ? 3:30 PM
Thomas Nast, cartoon - "The Comet of Chinese Labor" (1870)
Historical Census Browser
8:30 ? 9:15
Welcome and introductions (coffee and pastries provided by grant)
9:15 ? 9:50
Intro to Lesson Study ? video and teacher talk
9:50 ? 10:00
Break
10:00 ? 11:30
Speaker: David Henkin, University of California, Berkeley ...more information
"Economic Impact of Mid-19th Century Immigration?
11:30 ? 11:55
Post talk discussion: Robin Einhorn
11:55 ? 12:00
Identify Lesson Study groups
12:00 ? 12:40
Lunch (provided by grant) with your Lesson Study group
12:45 ? 2:10
Lesson Study preparation
Discussion topic: What are student understandings & misunderstandings of economics in American history, or conceptions and misconceptions of economic history as a way of explaining the present?
Provide examples.
Meet in grade level groups to discuss possible lesson study topics.
Lesson study groups pick a topic and provide a rationale for choice.
2:10 ? 3:30
Project Evaluation ? Participant Assessment
Matt Russell, Center for Evaluation and Research