In the intermediate grades, students work with perspective as a foundational thought process. This causes a teacher to be well-versed in the events of a period. This essay, George Washington's French and Indian War by Theodore J. Crackel, appears on the Gilder Lehrman website and examines one perspective in great detail.
In a student's world of growing facts and information, we can't expect them to learn more and more and more. We have to help them connect the facts to more enduring concepts and "understandings." By elevating concepts, we give them the conceptual lens for making sense of their world. When we allow them to do this type of thinking, that's when the learning begins to make sense.
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