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Calendar 2010 - 2011 > TAHG Gr 4, 5, 8 & 11 Meeting > October 12, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Place: The Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak St. (corner of 10th)
Oakland, CA 94607-4892
Time: 4-6 PM

I.

Introductions and overview of project goals for year #3 of the grant

II. Evaluating the work of the project ? overview for the year
III. Preparing for the October 26 (secondary teachers) and October 28(elementary teachers) full day sessions ? requesting substitutes, student surveys, Lesson Study
IV.

Speaker: Mark Peterson link
University of California, Berkeley

"Cultural History and the American Revolution"

 

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 2010
  • Summer For The Gods: The Scopes Trial And America's Continuing Debate Over Science And Religion by Edward J. Larson

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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