Content-Driven Pedagogy
Complementing the primary focus on context, teachers will learn history-specific teaching strategies based on analysis and synthesis of primary and secondary materials in the classroom and aligned with state history standards.
Participating teachers will develop lesson plans and resource packets based in the year's content with the help and advice of the project staff. The History Teaching Alliance and partner institutions will use the new lesson plans as they work with history teachers throughout the region.
Project rubrics have been developed to ensure that the projects are historically accurate and actively engage students in the process of historical inquiry.