This workshop explores the three instructional shifts that characterize a Pre-AP history and geography classroom: evaluating evidence, incorporating evidence, and explaining historical relationships. With these shifts in mind, participants will experience the Pre-AP model of disciplinary apprenticeship by leveraging source sets in the way that historians and geographers do.
Participants will leave the workshop with an understanding of the characteristics that make a source set useful, a list of shared instructional principles and strategies to guide work with source sets, and time to engage in peer feedback on new source sets. Specific activities in the workshop will include an examination of the Pre-AP World History and Geography Course Framework, an exploration of useful resource libraries and databases, and planning for application in the classroom. This one-day training will also provide participants their five-year certificate for teaching Pre-AP Social Studies.
1b, 1c, 3c, 3e