Two-Day Professional Development Training
Thursday, March 15, 2018 & Thursday, October 11, 2018
St. Louis, MO
8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The National Park Service & The DBQ Project Present
Asking the Right Questions in the Right Way: Using DBQs to Promote Critical Thinking and Writing About African American History
This two-day training will provide K-12 American History teachers with instructional strategies, sample lessons, and practices to utilize the document based question approach to inspire great teaching and learning while meeting the goals of the newly adopted California History-Social Science Framework.
Day 1: This interactive workshop will focus on motivating students work through analyzing documents and writing an evidence-based essay, podcast, speech or other using The DBQ Project 6-Step Method. Teachers will receive materials they can try out in their own classrooms.
Day 2: The follow-up will allow teachers the opportunity to debrief about their experiences teaching a DBQ and to share ideas for how to teach materials about slavery that The National Park Service will provide. The emphasis will be on formulating strong, authentic questions and teaching students how to organize and present knowledge they have gained by reading primary sources. Teachers will have time to begin planning a lesson they want to teach.