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Calendar 2008 - 2009 > TAHG Gr 4 & 5 Meeting > March 19, 2009

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Place: Technology Learning Center, Harper Building, OUSD
Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM



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Evaluation website for TAH Grant



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"Historical Thinking Matters"

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The National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC)


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article "Goodbye Columbus"

8:30 – 9:00

Welcome and announcements

9:00 – 10:25 Lesson Study work time
10:25 – 10:45

Matt Russell, Center for Evaluation and Research

An update on the evaluation – standards survey and assessment
10:45 – 12:00

Speaker: Daisy Martin
Stanford University

"Historical Thinking"
12:00 – 12:45    Lunch (provided by grant)
12:45 – 3:00 Lesson Study work time
3:00 – 3:30 Lesson Study groups report – what? (student and teacher questions); when?; and where?
Evaluation

Links from the Speaker's Presentation

  • http://teachinghistory.org/  The National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) is designed to help K-12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. Funded through the Office of Innovation and Improvement's Teaching American History grant (TAH) program. The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and the Stanford University History Education Group have created the Clearinghouse. It contains an extensive set of resources - history content, best practices, teaching materials, videos to support instruction focused on historical thinking, and connections to current research and teaching issues.

  • http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/faculty/displayRecord.php?suid=wineburgThe Stanford History Education Group - Contains links to the following sites.

  • http://www.historicalthinkingmatters.org Historical Thinking Matters - A collaboration between Stanford and George Mason University, historical thinking matters provides ready-made digital materials for teaching high school students to “read like historians.”

  • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/presence-famous.html - Investigating Historical Consciousness  - A national survey of young people and adults from all 50 states that explores Americans’ changing notions of “famous people in history.”
   


 

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