Evaluating the work of the project ? overview for the year
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Preparing for the October 27 (secondary teachers) and October 29 (elementary teachers) full day sessions ? requesting substitutes, student surveys, Lesson Study
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Speaker: Charles Postellink
San Francisco State University
"Reclaiming Political History in the 21st Century Classroom"
Project Goals
Increase and deepen teacher knowledge and understanding of American History.
Increase and deepen teacher knowledge and understanding of how to use historical inquiry and historical thinking to deepen student knowledge and understanding of American History.
Increase and deepen teacher knowledge of how to integrate reading, writing, and history to improve student academic and historical literacy skills.
Underlying Assumptions of Professional Development Program
1. Why historians?
a focus on scholarship and adult learning
a focus on key themes and ideas in American history
Underlying Assumptions of Professional Development Program
2. Why research on how students learn history?
a developmental perspective
connects the work of all teachers in the project
focuses questions asked and lessons taught
Underlying Assumptions of Professional Development Program
3. . Why Lesson Study?
a focus on translating new learning into classroom practice
a focus on application and inquiry
contains an inquiry question for both the students and the teachers.
Underlying Assumptions of Professional Development Program
4. . Why a book group?
a focus on new scholarship
a chance to learn and talk
first book for 2009
Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future by Peter Schrag
Yearly Content Themes
Year 1: ?Wealth and Freedom" A Focus on America's economic history and the tensions between the creation of wealth and the struggle for freedom.
Year 2: ?Democracy and Equality"
A Focus on America's political history; Investigating contesting definitions of democracy and equality.
Year 3: ?America and its Dream: A Focus on American ideas and culture;nvestigating the philosophies, words, and images that shaped the American past.
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