Tier II: Teaching
This Tier II: Teaching focuses on deepening instructional practices that enable teachers to teach history as a discipline, not a content. This tier provides teachers with strategies for meaningful document analysis, use of historical skills, and tools to help students question like a historian. It supports effective pedagogy through modules on teaching history as a discipline, embedding best practices, and incorporating inquiry into the classroom. In the transformation phase, educators are encouraged to establish a common language, shift traditional paradigms, and promote student agency. Tier II builds upon foundational knowledge and equips teachers with the tools and approaches needed to implement rigorous, inquiry-driven, and student-centered social studies instruction.
