Tier II: Teaching
This Tier II: Teaching focuses on the practices of an inquiry-based classroom rooted in historical thinking. Students begin to engage with perhaps the most foundational components of our discipline: document analysis. Furthermore, students engage with specific historical thinking skills and begin to develop structures for asking rigorous and thoughtful questions. Teachers are coached through the disciplinary nature of history and the necessity for inquiry being the foundation of a robust social studies experience for their students. As departments, we think through the benefits of a common language for what we do for building alignment and changing the academic culture of our schools and districts.
