This week, watch this video and visit these links (explore the website). Tell me what your opinion is of Reading Like A Historian by writing a quality blog post. What is RLH? What are the benefits? Would you consider using it?
How to teach history (and how not to)
Reading Like A Historian
Reading Like A Historian Video
This curriculum encourages students to take inquiry into historical events, instead of just hearing about them through strictly lecture. Within each history lesson is a central driving question on the topic being discussed that is accompanied by sets of primary historical documents and resources. The Stanford History Education Group designed the program this way so that students with different levels of reading and comprehending can achieve the same goal-- improving their overall literacy and successfulness. By using this curriculum, students will learn how to "investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading". The students are taught how to look at multiple aspects of a historical event or issue and evaluate it for themselves so that they are able to make their own historical claims.
Within the RLH website, the Stanford History Education Group has provided you with numerous tools to enable you to incorporate this program into your classroom. They have given you FREE access to 106 flexible lesson plans, along with introduction materials, that you can customize and adjust to your classroom and curriculum. Also, all of these lesson plans provide you with primary documents and sources from reliable places such as the Library of Congress.
I plan to be a high school history teacher one day and I thinkI would definitely consider using and incorporating this program into my curriculum in my future classroom. I believe this program and way of teaching can improve a student's literacy abilities and understanding of historical events way beyond the average lecture and discussion would.
Very good. You and Justin Thompson should compare notes. Read his Blog Post #13
ReplyDeleteHey Faith,
ReplyDeleteBased on the assignment we were all given I assume that you are an aspiring History teacher. This is great, I am as well.
I love this style of teaching History. I have been through it on the student end in Dr. Brazy's Class (135 & 136) here at South Alabama. It makes History more than just a "boring" class that one has to sit through where one must memorize people places and dates. Instead, It focuses on themes and the impact that it had on history instead. The great thing is that it not only makes History more fun but also is more efective in the learning proccess. Great post! I look forward to comparing notes and assignments in our future careers, should help us both
-Noah