Title: Closing the Gap between Professors and Teachers: "Uncoverage" as a Model of Professional Development for History Teachers.
Abstract:OUR AIM in the Central Michigan University Alpena-MontmorencyAlcona Teaching American History (TAH) Project has been to forge a model of professional development that would not merely improve teachers...OUR AIM in the Central Michigan University Alpena-MontmorencyAlcona Teaching American History (TAH) Project has been to forge a model of professional development that would not merely improve teachers' knowledge of events, people, and dates. We have been seeking to go beyond this to strengthen their understanding of the nature and practice of historical thinking and to develop their ability to help their students develop this difficult set of skills. In doing so, we have discovered through trial and error, the truth that professional development is most meaningful and effective when the content of teacher learning is strongly linked to the curriculum the students are learning.' In our source we have worked to combine sophisticated instruction in the history our participants will teach with practical strategies focused on developing effective, classroom-tested lessons and materials that reflect and teach both the content and structure of the discipline. Our decision to center the grant activities on primary source workshops, was informed by Grant Wiggins' and Jay McTighe's call for an uncoverage approach to teaching our subject as well as Sam Wineburg's research on historical thinking. Instead of attempting to fill the gaps in The History Teacher Volume 40 Number 2 February 2007 C Timothy D. Hall and Renay ScottRead More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
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