Full course description
What is history? How do historians work? What evidence do historians value? How do they find evidence and work with it? What processes characterize their writing? Most importantly, why and how can historians' methodologies be taught to young people? A growing body of research explores how teachers can nurture in young people the critical reading, thinking, and writing that are central to historiography. This course, designed for history and social studies teachers and other educators, explores historians' strategies and habits of mind within the context of United States History. It presents methods for teaching these strategies and habits of mind to young people and provides opportunities to collect, prepare, and use instructional materials in secondary and/or elementary classrooms. These online USBE CANVAS courses have been designed for active educators who are working on fulfilling the requirements for specific social studies endorsements. While the courses are not completely self-paced, they are asynchronous. Coursework unlocks weekly, so that the participants engage in the course material as a cohort, one week at a time. Educators can work on the course material when convenient within each week of the course. This is a 3-credit course in collaboration with Southern Utah University (SUU). Once enrolled in the Canvas course, students will receive further instructions and a CRN for registering through SUU for credit. SUU requires a $69 recording fee for this course. Upon completion of the course, grades will be available on an SUU transcript. PLEASE NOTE: You may only register for two of these endorsement courses at a time.