What's New at DBQ?

From the Framework

√ Introduction:

"[The] framework guides educators as they design, implement, and maintain a coherent course of study to teach content, develop inquiry-based critical thinking skills, improve reading comprehension and expository writing ability, and promote an engaged and knowledgeable citizenry…"

√ Content:

"Students engage with the content through questions and topics of disciplinary and conceptual significance rather than learn to memorize discrete pieces of information that do not appear to connect to broader issues…"

√ Literacy:

"By learning how to identify different kinds of text and how to read a text closely,…students are taught to slow down and read on a level that transcends simple vocabulary or content comprehension. ...
Students learn to write analytically when weighing multiple primary-source documents against one another and make claims about the legitimacy of certain sources over others."

√ Inquiry:

"Teaching history and the related social sciences demands more than telling students to memorize disconnected content. …

The [frameworks] highlight the importance of…research, evidence, and point of view; and historical interpretation."

√ Citizenship:

"Students will gain an appreciation of how necessary an informed electorate is in making possible a successful democracy. Students learn that reading informational text and discerning genres of arguments... are all essential virtues that an informed citizenry must possess."