Course Category: Teaching Historical Reasoning

Guiding Students in Inquiry

TEACHING HISTORICAL REASONING  |  COURSE 3 Introduction Welcome to Guiding Students in Inquiry, the third course in the BRI's online program, Teaching Historical Reasoning! Historians are detectives of the past. And, like any good detectives, historians must ask effective questions to understand what happened in history. In this course, you'll know how to skillfully apply [...]

Applying Historical Reasoning to Argumentation

TEACHING HISTORICAL REASONING  |  COURSE 4 Introduction Welcome to Applying Argumentation to Historical Reasoning, the fourth course in the BRI's online program, Teaching Historical Reasoning! In this course, you will practice making reasoned inferences and making an argument map that you can use in the classroom. Learning Objectives Upon completion of this course, you will [...]

Building a Toolkit for Historical Reasoning

TEACHING HISTORICAL REASONING  |  COURSE 5 Introduction Welcome to Building a Toolkit for Teaching Historical Reasoning, the final course in the BRI's online program, Teaching Historical Reasoning! In this course, you will explore curated toolkits full of resources used by BRI staff and BRI master teachers. You will complete this final course by evaluating these [...]

Historical Reasoning: WHAT & HOW We Know It

TEACHING HISTORICAL REASONING  |  COURSE 2 Introduction Welcome to Historical Reasoning: What We Know and HOW We Know It, the second course in the BRI's online program, Teaching Historical Reasoning! In this second course, you'll learn how teachers and historians work with historical sources so that you can engage your students in historical reasoning. After [...]

Studying History in Modern Times

TEACHING HISTORICAL REASONING  |  COURSE 1 Introduction Welcome to Studying History in Modern Times, the first course in the BRI's online program, Teaching Historical Reasoning! In this course, you will understand the meaning of history while exploring the reasons we study and teach the subject. At the end of this course, you will reflect on [...]
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