It is just a coincidence that I am picking the first standard for social studies grades 9-12. The standard is Historical thinking, and in particular, the ability for students to be able to understand history through alternative perspectives. Our current education system is greatly Eurocentric in subject matter. Often times students of different ethnic backgrounds are portrayed as the objects in our history lessons, and rarely the subjects.
It is crucial for students to have the ability to interpret the events from our past, and to make connections as well as correlations of certain events. The historical thinking standard is the most important in my eyes because the standard provides the foundations for students to incorporate many of the other standards.
Good, I think you will have plenty of opportunities to address historical thinking when working on your MD 400 assignments.
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