Last week, Learning by Hearings hosted fifteen Michigan teachers coming from six different counties and fourteen different ISDs. We spent three days with them working on creating three new lesson plans: a high school U.S. history plan on the annexation of Hawai’i, a middle school U.S. history plan on John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, and a high school civics plan on the existence of weapons of mass destruction during the Iraq War.
Teachers had the chance to work in small groups to develop these inquiry-based lessons, allowing them to collaborate and learn from each other. We also had the chance to work with these teachers to workshop our upcoming lesson materials: two U.S. history lessons–one on the Truman Committee during WWII and one on the Lavender Scare during the Cold War–and a civics lesson on bipartisanship.
The Learning by Hearings team is proud to produce materials for teachers, made by teachers, and we were so thrilled to get the chance to work with such wonderful educators! We can’t wait to meet more Michigan classroom teachers throughout the fall at professional development and upcoming conferences.