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Principle
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Instructional
strategies/problem solving
The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional
strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem
solving, and performance skills.
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Example 1: Primary Sources
One skill essential to all developing historians is the ability to
analyze primary sources. Here is one example of a lesson
plan which has the examiniation of sources as the focus.
North American Native People's Origin Lesson Plan and Resources
Example 2: Examination of Oral Traditions
Sources are very important to historians but what happens when one culture
has a lack of conventional sources like documents, paintings, photos, etc.
This lesson deals with such a culture.
What can we learn about a people from their stories? Lesson Plan and Resources
Example 3: Internet Proficiency
Tomorrow's historians will need computer skills. An amazing number of primary documents and sources are constantly
being uploaded onto the internet. Here is an exampleof student
work form a lesson that helped develop this skill. For the
activity each student had
to research a particualr U.S. state. Using only the internet they had to create an informative display.
Example of Student Work
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