Stockton Educator Training

Classrooms Without Borders and Stockton University presents an interactive approach for enhancing research skills utilizing primary sourcesAbout this event
Utilizing CWB’s new online database and in-school research initiative this session will explore interactive research techniques to engage students at the middle and high school levels with the personal stories and intimate events that shaped history.

This session will is firmly rooted in the C3 framework supporting the students skill sets of:

Analyzing complex and interacting factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.
Critiquing the usefulness of historical sources for a specific historical inquiry based on their maker, date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose.
Gathering relevant information from multiple sources representing a wide range of views while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection
Through careful historical investigation utilizing primary sources students will develop research skills designed to promote student agency. This database supports historical relevance and accuracy through meaningful, relevant, interest driven, and tangible participation in compiling the historical record.

Students will explore history through their research, while understanding the importance of sound research techniques and the historical verification process. Students will additionally anchor their writing skills in a solid foundation of historical accuracy.

Each student will then submit their findings to the online database. These entities will be vetted by a team of in-house scholars adding to an ever growing database.

This process provides the student with tangible engagement in documenting the historical record promoting student agency throughoutthe process.

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Participants will explore in real time the vetting process for student submission.

Utilizing an inquiry based model this data base positions the students to become not only researchers, but curators and archivists of the historical record.

Additionally participants will explore how to utilize the student driven database as a teaching tool to further complement existing units of study.

Solid historical research is a skill set that is often undermined by access to technology. To support educators and students in making appropriate use of historical evidence and the historical sources CWB has designed this interactive student and educator facing-database.

Presenters:
Dr. Mary Johnson: from Stockton University’s Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide program dedicated teacher and scholar of history. Dr. Johnson teaches as an adjunct on the college/university level and trains teachers from middle and high school backgrounds. She also has led study tours in Poland and Germany. Mary Johnson began her teaching career as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in Northern Nigeria. She earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Washington University. Following graduate school, she taught Women’s Studies and European History at Washington University and Temple University and spent a year as a visiting fellow at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. Since 1983 she has been with Facing History and Ourselves, facilitating seminars and workshops, writing curricula and conducting research. Currently, she is conducting research on sexual violence during the Holocaust and genocide and deepening understanding of the Nanjing Safety Zone and other examples of safety zones during atrocities.

Ellen Resnek: Educational Programs and Outreach Manager. She has been an educator for over 20 years, teaching in both Massachusetts and Vermont before relocating to Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Massachusetts in 1988 and holds 2 Masters Degrees in Education from Wilkes University. She has taught a wide variety of courses in the field of Social Studies, including partnering with the University of Pittsburgh as a College in High School Educator. She is a member of the Teacher Advisory Board for The National Constitution Center; responsible for promoting high-quality, nonpartisan, civic education through a variety of activities and programs and a founding member of the Teacher Advisory Group for the National Council on History Education, NCHE. She also serves as an Outreach Teacher Trainer for the Transatlantic Outreach Program.

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