Addressing OSEU 5

Cheryl Medearis

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What is the book “Lies My Teacher Told Me” about?
  2. What does the research tell us concerning the value of exposure to multiple perspectives in Social Studies?
  3. How might story and even fiction help learners grasp important ideas concerning history?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information

  1. Have you every found yourself feeling required to teach something you didn’t feel gave the full or true picture? How did / do you deal with this?
  2. What is approach to understanding something when there are multiple even contradictory accounts or explanations? Do you approach this differently for yourself that for your students? Why or why not?
  3. What role has story or storytelling played in your learning? In your classroom?