Free PD from the Stanford History Education Group

 I think the world of the Stanford History Education Group and the materials they create for teachers.  

Their Reading Like a Historian curriculum "engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features a set of primary documents designed for groups of students with a range of reading skills.

This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues and learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence."

Their Beyond the Bubble History Assessments offer 130 assessments that "easure students' historical thinking rather than recall of facts."

There resources are EXACTLY what you need to meet Montana's new social studies standards.

You can learn more by attending one or both of their free webinars.

• Click here to register for the Reading Like a Historian webinar on September 7th at 5 p.m.- 6 p.m. Mountain
• Click here to register for the Beyond the Bubble assessment webinar on September 21st at 5 p.m.-6 p.m. Mountain

Email me (mkohl@mt.gov) a few sentences detailing which webinar you attended, one of the resources you looked at, and your plans to use it in your classroom (or why you won't be using it), and I'll send you a certificate for one OPI Renewal Unit. (If you attend both sessions, you'll earn two OPI Renewal Units.)