SHEG- Reading Like a Historian Lessons

[Anonymous]

LAUSD is offering this PD, to be delivered by Stanford reps., on Jan. 30. It's an all-day PD for fifth grade teachers, but I recommend it to all teachers to learn strategies of close reading, using evidence to support student writing, corroboration, reliability...the 4C's of 21st Century Thinking skills. Go to the Learning Zone to apply.

[Anonymous]

https://lz.lausd.net/lz/courses.jsp?submenuID=8&classGUID=31366

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing! I love their lessons and use regularly in my classroom. I got a chance to attend a PD of theirs this past summer that was offered in our area for teachers and a second at the National Conference for the Social Studies (NCSS) Conference that my district sent me to in Boston. They have an upcoming 5-day workshop at Stanford on Aug. 1-5, check it out: https://cset.stanford.edu/pd/courses/inquiry-based-history-teaching

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing! I have definitely used the SHEG resources in the past, but have found that they often require heavy modification for the middle school level. I am not familiar with their Asia related resources, but the US history ones are typically more appropriate for a high school level. They emphasize a lot of primary sources and close reading, which is fantastic, But I usually find that my students need more chunking and more scaffolding in order to understand the texts.

[Anonymous]

A great resource and I use it at least twice a month that will improve primary/secondary source reading, critical thinking skills, and organized short responses.

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

I'm not sure if others are familiar with the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) or their curriculum, but if you're a Social Studies teacher, I highly recommenced their work. You need to create a profile to access the materials (free for educators), but they have ready-made lessons and document sets to use in classrooms. Their "Reading Like A Historian" lessons are the foundations for many of my units. Topics that might be of particular interest to people in this course are: The Fall of the Qin Dynasty, The Travels of Marco Polo, The Invasion of Nanking, The Korean War, The Cultural Revoltuion of China. Check them out and let me know if you have questions!

http://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh

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