Creating Visual Classrooms with Ethical Pedagogy for Teacher Leaders

Hosted by the University of Oklahoma, humanities (Grades 6-12 English/Language Arts and Social Studies) teachers from across the state of Oklahoma will engage in the exploration, analysis, and curation of Primary Source Sets from the Library of Congress such as American Authors, Charts and Graphs, Dust Bowl Migration, Informational Text, Maps from the World Digital Library, Oklahoma, Weather Forecasting, Westward Expansion. The guiding questions for this workshop are: How do we create interdisciplinary literacy practices that support student learning across the curriculum?; How do we select and use visual and multimodal texts?; and What are visual primary sources? Daily activities include building teacher content knowledge with exploring pedagogical opportunities (e.g., historical inquiry, perspective taking) for students using primary source materials and helping teachers better curate text set materials for their classrooms with learner, visual structures, knowledge structures, and ethical considerations.