The Educator's Handbook for Teaching With Primary Sources

Educators are striving to integrate primary sources into their pedagogy and teaching, but the implementation has been limited due to the perception that they are too complex. This handbook provides teacher candidates and inservice teachers with detailed and specific perspectives, activities, approaches, and resources to help them effectively and authentically use primary sources in their classrooms. It introduces teaching with primary sources, meets the needs of classroom teachers and teacher candidates, offers dozens of primary sources, and aligns to national standards, frameworks, and the C3 framework for social studies. It also focuses on ways in which educators are utilizing emerging technologies to engage students in deeper and more authentic ways of learning.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

Educators across various subject areas are actively striving to incorporate primary sources into their pedagogy and teaching practices. Despite their immense significance in fostering authentic and disciplined inquiry, the implementation of primary source activities in the pre-K–12 classroom remains limited. This underutilization can largely be attributed to the perception that designing, implementing, and grading these activities is overly complex. Many teachers also believe that analyzing primary sources and constructing evidence-based narratives is a challenging task for students within the traditional classroom setting. However, Waring contends that this notion is unfounded, and in this handbook, he offers teacher candidates and in-service teachers comprehensive and precise perspectives, activities, approaches, and resources to effectively and authentically integrate primary sources into their classrooms.

Book Features:

Introduces the concept of teaching with primary sources, providing detailed examples of authentic and proven instructional ideas and approaches.

Designed to cater to the needs of classroom teachers and teacher candidates across social studies, English and language arts, mathematics, science, and other fields.

Offers a wealth of primary sources and provides comprehensive links to relevant resources throughout the book.

Fully aligns with national standards, frameworks, and the C3 framework for social studies.

Can be utilized to meet the unique requirements of emerging English learners and students with special needs.

Focuses on innovative ways in which educators are leveraging various emerging technologies to engage students in deeper and more authentic learning experiences.

Dimension: 235 x 162 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807769096