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My next (and sadly my last) #AHA20 livetweet for the #sschat community bright & early on a Sunday morning....

"The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis" with @chriscmartell @HSGlobalHistory @TrevorGetz4

What *needs* to happen in history education?
@chriscmartell @HSGlobalHistory @TrevorGetz4 @chriscmartell is up first: focus on building bridges between historians & history teachers
a few thousand self-identified historians/professors in US
BUT
1.1 million elementary generalists are often overlooked when considering 'who teaches history'
@chriscmartell @HSGlobalHistory @TrevorGetz4 18% of the almost 300K undergrad history majors report they wish to become K-12 teachers!
Decline of history majors is bad news for public ed

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"Let's be real": many historians do not yet know how to work with K-12 teachers
Example: experts who lecture to teachers for 90 minutes as "professional development" but that's not really what we want/need from those experts

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"Where do historians and history teachers interact?"
* undergrad/grad level history courses
* content-focused PD like @NEHgov institutes
* history books (but *not* journal articles ... sorry)
* social media [hello!! :)]
()

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@NEHgov #bridginghistoriansandteachers challenge to educators: follow 1 new historian every day (and hopefully get reciprocation)

@chriscmartell followed 42 historians and got 33 follow-backs

bit.ly/bridginghistor…

#sschat

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@NEHgov @chriscmartell Potential positive esults:
* historians & educators can learn about each other's work
* engage together about classroom activities

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Who are the top-followed historians overall
vs
Who do schoolteachers actually follow?
#sschat #AHA20
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@chriscmartell
"We need to move from historian/teacher interaction to collaboration."
We need more historians and teachers presenting at each other's conferences
"We need to utilize more digital platforms for sharing"
[shoutout to @VisionsOfEd !!]

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"We need more PD opportunities that link content & pedagogy" so the material will actually get used in a classroom!

Model = @umassboston intersection of historians & teachers presenting *together* at PD

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@UMassBoston @HSGlobalHistory is up now: "History and Education and the 'Passport to Social Studies' Curriculum"
"In 2013, NYCDOE central office was content-agnostic" -- not much focus on disciplinary development for SocSt educators
2014: new NY frameworks & potential test changed that

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@HSGlobalHistory: "The scope and sequence is not a checklist" -- tell your administrators!! Teachers need flexibility to make best-practice decisions for their students' needs and abilities.

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"Passport to Social Studies" = the NYC DOE teacher-created curriculum aligned with 2014 frameworks, currently completing through grade 10 (11-12 getting done this year)

45 unit guides(!)
"Having a K-8 curriculum let us think about what 9th graders enter HS able to do"

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Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) = knowledge that lets teachers identify the most relevant/essential aspects of content for teachability
In other words, history educators must translate historical research results into developmentally-appropriate material.

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@HSGlobalHistory "A shift for teachers AND students" toward greater focus on historical thinking as the foundation

the Passport curriculum includes 1-3 page organizers for concepts like "turning points" (sorry, I didn't get to take a photo of that slide)

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YAY: currently transforming PDF pages into Word documents that can be adjusted as needed by teachers

weteachnyc.org

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[Sorry I don't have the name or handle of next speaker, a Brooklyn HS tchr. Hopefully I can add them later in this thread]

"Learning how to teach students to teach like historians was definitely a learning curve ... greatest growth came from becoming a curriculum writer"

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Students "love seeing the process" of historical thinking.
"They love the idea that you are including them in history-making."

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@TrevorGetz4: "I'm a history professor. This feels like the first of my 12 steps" :)

What is the purpose of the intro survey course? (inspired by @CraigPerrier)

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@TrevorGetz4 @CraigPerrier "I always thought I was a good teacher because my student evaluation scores were high."
"I didn't really engage with history education until" getting involved with Passport curriculum development
Learned about backward-design etc. for the 1st time as part of that process

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Inside info from @TrevorGetz4: "We [as college faculty] get very little professional development. In fact, if you do get PD in pedagogy that is actually *punishment* because of low student evaluation scores" (!!)

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Schoolteachers need to know "the economy of the academy" which drives faculty to focus on getting your research published (esp a book) rather than teaching -- even places that consider themselves "teaching schools".

"That brings me back to why these survey courses exist."

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"These courses served a purpose when they began", before states had SocSt frameworks.
Lack of vertical integration from "12th to 13th and 14th grade" is problematic

Professors don't know what Ss learned in HS. "They just have an innate distrust" of what was done then.

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Panel discussion time for last 1/2 hour:
@HSGlobalHistory asks "What should be the next steps?"

@TrevorGetz4: It will take a 'cultural shift' at the college level.
@chriscmartell: While working at a different school of ed "I had to beg history dept faculty to talk to me"

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@chriscmartell: "Universities need to incentivize history dept members for working with public schools"

@TrevorGetz4: "We don't know what we don't know. We think we're good teachers" based on student evals. Recommends reading works of @samwineburg to self-reflect.

#AHA20
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@chriscmartell @TrevorGetz4 @samwineburg @chriscmartell hopes we can "stop thinking of pedagogy and content as separate" -- I wish my survey courses had involved sourcework and historical thinking, rather than lectures.

@TrevorGetz4 has another recommendation: @cjdenial's blog for more ideas about pedagogy

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@chriscmartell @TrevorGetz4 @samwineburg @cjdenial from the audience: "It's easy to find primary sources and tertiary sources" but not secondary sources [like historical monographs/articles] for HS students, without modifying so much they've lost most of the meaning - - request for historians to write differently :)

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response from @HSGlobalHistory & @TrevorGetz4: publishing problem relates to 'academy economy', although @ericaadunbar is wonderful exception to that rule.
@chriscmartell: the challenge of utilizing whole book, but a short blog piece about their work COULD be used by tchrs

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@HSGlobalHistory @TrevorGetz4 @ericaadunbar @chriscmartell @HSGlobalHistory follows-up on to request those blog posts (or short online essays) include a few citations, so students understand it's not coming from "an omniscient voice" -- helps teachers to demonstrate the historical research process/effort

#AHA20
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@HSGlobalHistory @TrevorGetz4 @ericaadunbar @chriscmartell @TrevorGetz4: "The data on how students learn [including neurological development & age-appropriateness] is not widely disseminated at college level"
@HSGlobalHistory suggests that Ts do what we want Ss do: investigate beyond just 1 source like SHEG. What else is out there?

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Late addition: @ChibiJu was the 4th panelist for this session. Sorry I missed you earlier! aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webpr…
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