Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Place: Bender Room, Carnegie Hall, Mills College
Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
08:30 – 09:00
Welcome and introductions (coffee and pastries provided by grant)
09:00 – 10:15
Speaker: Christopher Waldrep, San Francisco State University
“The Abolitionists' Constitution: Fundamental Rights under Slavery” ...more information
10:15 – 10:30
Post talk discussion – classroom applications
10:30 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 11:45
Lesson Study
Discussion topic: What are student understandings and misunderstandings of politics in American history, or conceptions and misconceptions of political history as a way of explaining the present? Provide examples.
Meet in grade level groups to discuss possible lesson study topics.
11:45 – 12:00
Identify Lesson Study groups
12:00 – 12:45
Lunch (provided by grant) with your Lesson Study group
12:45 – 02:00
Lesson Study preparation
Lesson study groups identify a possible topic and provide a rationale for choice.
Reading – “Inverting Bloom’s Taxonomy,” by Sam Wineburg
- Implications for instruction and Lesson Study? (see related article)
02:10 – 03:10
Project Evaluation – Participant Assessment
Greg Jackson, Center for Evaluation and Research
03:10 – 03:20
Evaluation for the day and looking ahead to the November meeting
