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Scaffolding: What is it and Why is it Important?

Studies Weekly

3 Human-recorded audio with synchronized highlighting on Studies Weekly Online Primary Source Analysis Worksheets Download these free easy-to-use worksheets that help students analyze various types of sources and bring their stories to life. Vocabulary words are bolded in the Student Edition, with a definition attached.

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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

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TCI Lesson Planning Tools for Teachers

TCI

The slideshows deliver instructions, rich primary sources, interactions, and questions. Customize the cards to edit existing definitions, provide examples of how to use each term, and add images. Professional Development Courses Stay sharp with TCI’s self-paced professional development courses.

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

4QM Teaching

We got some useful feedback, which will help us to set our agenda for professional development and materials acquisition. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources.

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Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. I think that’s the best way to start the conversation, because what it is predicated on is some agreed upon definition of a violation.