Hello DDS
teachers!
I want to
share a couple great and free online resources available for your
lessons and students.
1. The
Choices Program through Brown University
About Choices
The
Choices Program is a program affiliated with the Department of
History at Brown University and works to increase access to
high-quality curriculum content and strengthen education about history and
current events in secondary schools in the U.S. and beyond by collaborating
with leading scholars to write curriculum materials and provide teacher
professional development.
Our
Work
Relies on
up-to-date historiography;
Tells an
inclusive, responsible history, while also encouraging students to challenge
and grapple with this history in the ways that historians do;
Provides
teachers with high-quality, carefully researched curriculum content that is
used in all levels of high school classrooms and some middle schools.
Our
Curriculum
The core
of the Choices Program is our full-length, award-winning curriculum units that
include student readings, lesson plans, and activities to accompany and
complement the readings. Student’s readings and teacher resources are written
by the Choices writing team and approved by scholars. Student readings and
lessons reflect up-to-date historiography and equip students to develop the
skills necessary for historical thinking, understanding, and writing. Choices
currently offers units for U.S. History, World History, Current Issues, and
Geography, as well as many electives. Curriculum units are available in print,
Digital Editions, and PDF formats.
Additional
Resources
Each year,
the Choices writers produce up to a dozen free, online lessons addressing
current events as part of our Teaching with the News
series. Choices has also produced more than 1,700 free, online scholar videos
that are 2-4 minutes in length (see Scholars
page). Each features a scholar or practitioner discussing topics related to his
or her research or work in language that is accessible to high school
audiences. These free videos complement the Choices curriculum units.
Choices
also conducts a variety of professional
development workshops to equip teachers to integrate Choices
materials into their classrooms. In addition, onsite professional development
is conducted with school districts that contract with the Choices Program.
Program
Reach
Choices
resources are used annually by an estimated one million students representing
all fifty U.S. states as well as by students in about two hundred international
schools. In recent years, our paid curriculum materials were used in
approximately 8,000 high schools in the United States.
2. Annenberg
Learner
Annenberg
Learner funds and distributes more than 100 multimedia courses and workshops to
help teachers keep current on the content they teach. Professional development
resources provide teachers with research on the most effective teaching
strategies along with their connection to national education content standards,
and examples of these principles applied in real classrooms. The video
components are paired with extensive Web sites that include online texts,
course and workshop guides, and extensive background information to enhance the
learning experience. Using these resources, teachers can learn from experts,
other teachers, and even students who reveal their unique interpretations of
the content.
Teachers
also can earn graduate
education credit using these resources through Colorado State
University for a low tuition fee. We also make the resources available at no
cost to individual learners through our Web site, Learner.org.
Thanks for
checking in!
Kathleen
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