Resources
A rich scholarly literature and an encouraging array of examples can help guide our work.
Historical Overview
Robert Orrill and Linn Shapiro, "From Bold Beginnings to an Uncertain Future: The Discipline of History and History Education," American Historical Review 110 (June 2005) http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/110.3/orrill.html and the ensuing on-line conversation: http://www.historycooperative.org/phorum/list.php?15
Books and Articles on History Teaching
Robert Bain and Jeffrey Mirel, "Setting Up Camp at the Great Instructional Divide: Educating Beginning History Teachers," Journal of Teacher Education 57 (May/June 2006), 212-18.
Keith C. Barton and Linda S. Levstik, Teaching History for the Common Good (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004)
Thomas Bender, et al, The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, for the American Historical Association, 2004)
D. Antonio Cantu and Wilson J. Warren, Teaching History in the Digital Classroom (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003)
Frederick D. Drake and Sarah Drake Brown, "A Systematic Approach to Improve Students' Historical Thinking," The History Teacher 36 (Summer 2003)
Thomas Fallace and Johann N. Neem, "Historiographical Thinking: Towards a New Approach in Preparing History Teachers," Theory and Research in Social Education 33 (Summer 2005), 244-61.
Fritz Fischer, "Preparation of Future History Teachers: The History Department's Role," Perspectives 44 (December 2006): 19-20.
Tom Holt, Thinking Historically: Narrative, Imagination, and Understanding (New York: The College Board, 1990)
G. Williamson McDiarmid, "Understanding History for Teaching: a Study of the Historical Understanding of Prospective Teachers," in M. Carretero and F. J. Voss, eds., Cognitive and Instructional Processes in History and the Social Studies (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lea, 1994)
Peter Seixas and Carla Peck, "Teaching Historical Thinking," in A. Sears and I. Wright, eds., Challenges and Prospects for Canadian Social Studies (Vancouver, BC: Pacific Educational Press, 2004), 109-117
Peter N. Stearns, Peter Seixas, and Sam Wineburg, Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 2000)
Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001)
Bruce VanSledright, In Search of America's Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School (New York and London: Teachers College Press, 2002)
Laura M. Westhoff, "The Historian's Role in Teacher Education," Perspectives (September 2006), 33-5
Graduate Programs
"Retrieving the Master's Degree from the Dustbin of History" AHA Committee on the Master's Degree http://www.historians.org/projects/cmd/2005/Report/intro.cfm
Places to Start
AHA Resources for Teachers at All Levels
http://www.historians.org/teaching/index.cfm
OAH History Teacher Resource Center
http://www.oah.org/teaching/index.html
NCHE Resource Center
http://www.nche.net