OUSD | De Tocqueville's Ghost : American History Project

May 21, 2002
Bender Room, 2nd Floor, Carnegie Hall
Mills College, Oakland, California

8:30-8:45	Coffee & rolls
8:45-9:15	History Project Staff- "The Project, Lesson Study & Student Learning"
9:15-10:30	"Lesson Study- Challenges & Achievements" : Discussion with Catherline Lewis Questions to Consider To what degree was the goal of collaboration achieved? What collaboration strategies worked well and what strategies might be useful in the future? Did the work support careful thought about the goals of a particular lesson, unit and subject? Did the work deepen your knowledge of American History and they struggle for democracy? If not, how could this have happened? Did the work help you refine and/or add to your knowledge of powerful instructional strategies, especially in the areas of reading & writing historical texts? If not, how could this have happened? Did the work increase your understanding of historical thinking and connect it to the lesson you studied? If not, how could this have happened? What are your questions and concerns about lesson study?
10:45-11:00	Discussion of lesson study project - grade level groups Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 11
11:30-12:00	Preparing for the summer institute - planning for future lesson studies Questions to Consider How will the history of the struggle for democracy be addressed within each unit you teach? How will you introduce the concept of democracy to your students? What will they need to know in order to better understand democracy within the context of the history you teach? (Proposed lesson study topic for Fall Semester)
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Speaker: Marcia Eymann, Curator of Historical Photography, Oakland Museum of California link "California & Viet Nam - Doing Difficult History" (readings & web resources)
2:30-3:30	Classroom applications - Creating history "exhibits" to support teaching and learning in your classroom Lesson plan for using pictures from Vietnam War The War in Vietnam: A Story in Photographs http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/ vietnam_photographs/vietnam_photos.html Online lesson using sources from US National Archives.