Participating teachers will:
Attend a virtual professional development institute on teaching with Reading Like a Historian lessons and assessments. The institute will be four 2-hour sessions held on Zoom. These sessions will be synchronous and will not be recorded. The first three sessions will be held July 9, 10, & 11, 2024, and the fourth session will be held the week of August 12;
Complete an asynchronous online course about DIG's digital literacy curriculum, Civic Online Reasoning. The course, which will run from July 15 to August 9, 2024, will take about 4-6 hours to complete in total;
Teach 6 to 8 new Reading Like a Historian lessons with their students in fall 2024. These lessons will address topics chronologically from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. The lessons will also include Civic Online Reasoning activities to support students in discerning credible information online;
Participate in four 1-hour group coaching sessions in fall 2024;
Receive a $1,000 stipend and earn up to 20 professional development hours from the state of Illinois.
Please see this
overview if you are interested in learning more about the project.
If you would like to be considered for this project, please complete the following application form by April 24, 2024. DIG will use this form to select participants, but completing the form does not guarantee selection for participation in the project.
We will contact teachers who have been selected to participate by
May 3, 2024.
