COLLABORATE serves as the virtual meeting place for members of the National Archives education team in Washington, DC, and colleagues from schools, institutions, and organizations across the nation to share innovative ideas and best practices. These conversations will serve as a basis for an exciting new web site and will also offer important feedback and commentary on the site as it develops.

What Skills Are Most Important for Students to Learn?

May 22, 2009

On the new education site we’re building, we want to give educators access to great resources - and make them easy to get to!  What if we arranged resources in different ways?  Maybe . . .

  • chronologically
  • thematically
  • by type of activity
  • by historical thinking skill emphasized in the activity
  • Or??

Our on-site team met yesterday to brainstorm these “buckets” as well as the kinds of skills we’d like teachers to be able to help their students learn with the help of this new site.  As we build the site with an audience of pre-service teachers and methods instructors in mind, what kinds of skills do you think are the most important to emphasize?  What historical thinking skills are most important?  To what extent does their importance vary depending on the age of our students?

Written By: Collaborate Team, 3:19 pm
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