OUSD Teaching American History Grant II

Calendar > Calendar 2004 - 2005 > Grade 5 > November 18, 2004

Tuesday, November 18, 2004 Place: Mills College, Bender Room in Carnegie Hall 5000 MacArthur Blvd. (directions.pdf ) Oakland, CA Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM		Other Pocahontas Resources CLICK HERE Reading and Rewriting History "by Sam Wineburg and Daisy Martin Read article online. CLICK HERE
8:30 - 8:45	Coffee and pastries
8:45 – 9:00	Announcements
8:45 – 9:00	Speaker: Caroline Cox, Department of History University of the Pacific “Pocahontas in Perspective” More information
10:30 -10:45	Break
10:45 – 12:00	“What does it mean to use biography in your classrooms?” Discussing approaches, ideas, issues, questions, and concerns from bluebooks and survey on teaching with biography. presentation_slides.pdf
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch (provided by project)
1:00 – 2:15	Speaker: Daisy Martin, Stanford University Daisy Martin a former high school history and civics teacher, is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University's School of Education.
1:00 – 2:15	“Historical Significance and Historical Thinking"
2:15 – 3:00	Historical Significance and Student Knowledge – Working with the names and criteria students included in their list and explanation of very important people in American history.
3:00 – 3:30	Evaluation
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Bibliography of historical thinking resources	Stearns, Peter, Peter Seixas, and Sam Wineburg, Knowing, Teaching & Learning History: National and International Perspectives, ed. New York: New York University Press. Contains a variety of articles, with sections on the teaching and learning of history link to amazon.com Wineburg, S. (2001). Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. Philadelphia, Temple University Press. Chapters 3 & 4 both paint nice pictures of thinking and reading historically. link to amazon.com Holt, Tom. ((1995). Thinking Historically: Narrative, Imagination, and Understanding. New YOrk: College Entrance Examination Board. An easy to read account of teaching Reconstruction to college students that can be useful for teachers at all grade levels. link to amazon.com Bransford, John, Ann Brown, And Rodney Cocking, eds. 1999. How People Learn Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. available at http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309065577/html/ See chapter 7 for examples of history teaching. Other chapters also address questions and raise considerations regarding how people learn in an accessible way.