How to Teach Students to Think Like Historians
12-19-11
Craig Thurtell was a teacher at Ardsley High School in Ardsley, NY, and is a contributor to HNN's forthcoming "Teachers' Edition," which will provide historically-grounded lesson plans on current events to elementary and high school teachers.
(1) “How Americans Use and Think about the Past: Implications from a National Survey for the Teaching of History,” Peter N. Stearns, Peter Seixas, and Sam Wineburg, eds., Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History [New York University Press, 2000], 273.
(2) The term is Lendol Calder’s—see “Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey,” Journal of American History, March 2006, 1358-1370.
(3) Avishag Reisman, “The ‘document-based lesson’: Bringing disciplinary inquiry into high school history classrooms with adolescent struggling readers,” in press, 25.
(4) “The ‘document-based lesson,’” 10.
(5) Wineburg, Seixas, and Stearns, eds., 427-428. Lendol Calder achieved similar results in his article cited above (and on his website, cited in the article, which contains an extended discussion of his evaluation).