Learning Opportunities
Wisconsin Treasures: Thinking Like a Historian
New Approach, New Framework, New Textbook
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Description:
Attention all educators who are interested in innovative history instruction and especially 4th grade teachers! This unique workshop will introduce the Thinking Like a Historian methodology, its accompanying publication, Thinking Like a Historian and Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story, the new 4th grade textbook based on the Thinking Like a Historian framework and published by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Thinking Like a Historian is a research-based, standards-linked critical-thinking framework that brings together both historical process and historical categories of inquiry that working historians use to interpret the past. Bobbie Malone, co-author of both publications, will be the key presenter. She will discuss how Thinking like a Historian (TLH) was developed and classroom tested through a Teaching American History partnership of the UW-Whitewater History Department, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and CESA 2 in order to engage students in history as investigation, rather than recapitulation of historical events.
This workshop will concentrate on both publications, but, distinct from other TLH-centered workshops presented through the CESAs, more time will be devoted to the way Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story has utilized Thinking Like a Historian to enhance the teaching of Wisconsin history.
This is an action-oriented workshop, so participants will have the opportunity to apply the TLH ideas to what they are currently teaching. Those not teaching Wisconsin history specifically will have time during the course of the day to apply TLH questions and concepts to their existing history texts or curriculum. All participants should bring copies of history-related materials they use as part of their history curricula in the classroom.
All participants will receive copies of Thinking Like a Historian and sample pages of Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story and accompanying materials from which to work during the day.
Read more about "Think Like a Historian" in a Wisconsin State Journal article
Click to download - Workshop Registration Form
Instructor:
Bobbie Malone, is Director of the Office of School Services at the Wisconsin Historical Society. With a master's degree in elementary education, she taught school for ten years in Louisiana and Texas before taking a doctorate in American History from Tulane University. She is the co-author of Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction and the textbook Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story, and has authored and edited many other student books and teacher's guides on Wisconsin history for the state�s classrooms.
Teacher Standards Addressed:
- 1. Teachers know the subjects they are teaching.
- 3. Teachers understand that children learn differently.
- 4. Teachers know how to teach.
- 7. Teachers are able to plan different kinds of lessons.
Intended Audience:
Upper Elementary, Middle, High School Educators
Cost:
$150, includes lunch; 10% reduction for TEAMS of 3 or more from SAME organization who register at the SAME time
CEUs/Credit:
0.5 CEU