UCANTEACH ICON COURTESY OF PONGSAKORNRED
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Knowledge

What will your students know and understand about Civil Rights when/after they take your course?
  • –Enduring Understandings
  • –Essential Questions
  • –Essential Knowledge

skills

What will students be able to do when/after taking your course, i.e. students are able to…:
  • Utilize Historical Literacy  (sourcing, context, corroboration, close reading)
  • Participate in Civic Dialogue (collaborate, communicate & compromise)
  • Formulate an argument with evidence
  • Practice Historical Inquiry (cause & effect; summarization; compare & contrast)

dispositions

Disposition: A person's inherent qualities of mind and character.
  • Historical Dispositions might include empathy, courage, civic participation etc…

WHAT DO THESE LOOK LIKE IN THE REALM OF CIVIL RIGHTS?

GRADUALISM & COMPROMISE
MEDIA & MOMENTUM
ADVOCACY, ACTION & ACTIVISM
POLLS & POLICIES
STUDENT STRATEGIES
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REACTION & RESISTANCE

building a historical disposition

Disposition: /dispəˈziSH(ə)n/
A person's inherent qualities of mind and character.
WHILE LISTENING TO THE PODCAST ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
  1. What historical dispositions to you hope to instill in your students?  Why?
  2. When studying Civil Rights, what is your end goal, what historical dispositions do you hope they acquire?
  3. What  setbacks or challenge have you/might you face in the process of teaching Civil Rights? How might that impact their ability to learn and practice the historical dispositions you hope to instill?
  4. What Knowledge and Skills will you incorporate into your teaching and curriculum to encourage the historical dispositions you have chosen?
The History of Black America: Blow the Roof Off

Instructional Power Point:  Curriculum Development & design

Listening Guide: curriculum development & design

Why enduring understandings are critical

Jerry Seinfeld
Miss South Carolina
MIT