Developing Historical Thinkers - Supporting Historical Inquiry for All Students

"Learn how to engage students in investigating the past. Lesh provides research-based guidance to help teachers (grades 6-12) develop and use questions that guide historical inquires, align assessment to inquiry, and incorporate difficult histories. Each chapter uses a specific lesson, framed by student work, to illuminate approaches in real classroom scenarios"--

About the author

Bruce A. Lesh is a former high school teacher in Baltimore County Public Schools, curriculum director at the Maryland State Department of Education, past president of the Maryland Council for the Social Studies, and vice-chair of the National Council for History Education. He has been recognized as the Organization of American Historians Teacher of the Year, and the Maryland Secondary Social Studies Teacher of the Year. He received the 2024 National Council for History Education (NCHE) Paul Gagnon Prize for a Significant Contribution to the Promotion of History Education.

Summary

A practical book that addresses the consistent questions that were posed by secondary social studies teachers during professional learning sessions. In particular, it examines ways to break through the inclination and perception expressed by many teachers that ‘My kids cannot do that.’

Product details

• Authors: Bruce A Lesh, Bruce A. Lesh, Bruce A./ Journell Lesh
• Assisted by: Wayne Journell (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9780807768778
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6877-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Research and Practice in Socia; Research and Practice in Social Studies Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology