By and For the Teaching with Primary Sources Community
RBMS’s Instruction and Outreach Committee’s Outreach Toolkit Subcommittee offers the following suggestions to help move the community toward a common set of goals for thinking about how to ethically teach …
Discussion Questions for reading the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy at your home institution. Summary The Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy were developed by a joint SAA-RBMS task force. The …
Assessment of Learning Objectives The Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy present broad learning objectives which are intended to “be used as a whole or in part depending on particular learning …
Step 1: Lesson Objective Identify the key elements of a successful student performance.Describe how a student would successfully complete the process or product related to the lesson objective. It may …
A Sample Scope and Sequence for the Primary Source Literacy Guidelines Introduction The Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy provide a key set of competencies and related learning objectives for students …
What will assessment do for me? Assessment allows you to measure if and how your students are learning. It also allows you to evaluate how well your instruction methods are …
This post outlines in brief the process for planning a lesson using principles of backward design and gradual release of responsibility, two widely accepted instructional approaches. Goal conversation. What do …
ABOUT THIS TOOL: This template is designed to encourage instructors to plan instructional sessions that derive from their instructional objectives, also known as “backward design.” An example lesson follows the …
Tips for rolling out the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy at your home institution. Host a reading group ‒ Invite members of your department or institution to read the Guidelines …