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Skills AND Content


Marrying skills and content in classrooms is a civil union that everyone can support! Projects allow for deep analysis of content and take the place of broad brush strokes of superficial content 'coverage'.

Skills

There simply is no denying that skills trump content in every job that exists on this earth, its moon, and its host galaxy. Without skills like...

Oral Communication
Written Communication
Critical Thinking
Collaboration
Work Ethic

...there can be no advancement of content knowledge or application.

Content

Learning a body of knowledge is important for all content fields. Rather than focus on a rote list of historic people, dates, and/or events, many historians have chosen instead to highlight specific themes in history and the patterns that can be associated between and among those themes. This is a more inclusive model, and it strays from the dogmatic approach of listing specific people, dates, and events that must be taught. The danger in creating such a list is that the biases that go along with it are unavoidable. Below is an example of some themes throughout history that serve as umbrellas over many sheltered historical topics:

Human Organization                  
Revolution
Systems of Faith
Technology
War/Conflict
Exploration

Below is a model for guiding historical analysis through a given theme:

S ocial
P olitical
E conomic
E nvironmental
C ultural
H istorical Significance

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Connect:

  • Anacostia HS
  • Partnerships
    • THATClass
    • THATSummer
    • Alley Life
  • PBL
    • project methodology
    • skills AND content
    • authentic assessment
    • evaluation (grades)
    • reflection
    • why PBL?
    • Founding Thinkers FB Quiz Project Model