This event will take place from 4-5p ET.
This is part II of “Making Historical Inquiry Accessible”, and will feature the perspective of a a secondary social studies teacher. Part I featured the perspective of a social studies methods instructor in a university setting. You can watch the recording for part I here, when it becomes available.
Join us for an illuminating session with our partner from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium: Kelley Brown, a U.S. history, government, and We the People teacher at Easthampton High School in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Brown is a veteran award-winning social studies teacher who is dedicated to teaching students at all levels how to engage in deep historical thinking using inquiry.
In this webinar, Brown will share how she has experimented over the last 3 years with using the Question Formulation Technique and primary sources from the Library of Congress to expand access to inquiry for all of her students, from those in the standard grade level to Advanced Placement classes. Using a plethora of student work she has documented–from local history projects on women’s riots in Easthampton to a lesson on Virginia Hall, an American spy in World War II–Brown will trace how she has evolved these projects over time.
Participants will leave with many ideas and tools for how they might strengthen their own inquiry-based teaching and increase access for all students by incorporating primary source documents from the Library of Congress and supporting students to formulate and use their own questions.