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=TAH Event Summary-What's Happening=

On this wiki site you will find the current and past issues of my event summaries. I will always include the most recent issue on the main page, as well as links on the left side of the page to every issue. Also included are some graphics that have been developed over time and some video that has been taken during our workshops.



TAH Event Summary-What’s Happening 3.31.09 This event summary is a combination of the summaries from the February and March workshops. At the February workshop, guests Bobbie and Nikki taught teachers how to think like a historian. One important discovery was the idea that historic sources aren’t necessarily bias, they are just missing some information. The question for teachers then is, “what is missing?” What sources do I need in order to make sense of the event, etc? Teachers left with a notebook and a very handy reference card with guiding questions to use with students as they begin to dig into a historic concept. During the March 31st workshop, Mikel Vallier took teachers through a model DBE (Document Based Exercise) focused on Harriet Tubman. The purpose was to help teachers think about usefulness of sources as they pertain to answering the question: How much did _’s role as a _ matter to the given turning point? Teachers discovered that some sources, though interesting, leave information gaps. This makes it important to build a resource packet that is helpful for students to answer this question. Teachers spent the day putting together a collection of useful sources, modified the model DBE to fit the needs of their students, and also modified the scoring rubric to accurately reflect the desired outcomes of the student work. PLG’s collected some very interesting documents such as timelines, political cartoons, speeches, meeting notes, etc.

Eighth Grade PLG- Abraham Lincoln High School PLG- Richard Nixon Fifth Grade PLG- Oloudah Equiano We are now at a point where we can begin to think about classroom implementation, and our students will be doing this DBE as a pre-assessment in September. PLG’s essentially have to make two DBE’s, a pre and a post assessment. They will only be giving these DBE’s to one class, and will be bringing the written work with them to a future workshop for peer scoring. Below, I thought you might like a sample of the work that took place at our February workshop.

//Below is about two minutes of a discussion at our latest workshop, Where Nikki is talking about what information can be pulled from a source.// media type="file" key="DW_A0201.wav"

//A small group discussion at the fifth grade table with teachers discussing women's role in the American Revolution.// media type="file" key="DW_A0195.wav"