The Historical Thinking Project Historical Thinking Project As teachers of histories, we strongly support and advocate for the inclusion of historical thinking concepts in social studies classrooms across canada. historical thinking should be embedded in provincial curricula in order to ensure all teachers are utilizing these skills. To think historically, students need to be able to: understand the ethical dimension of historical interpretations. taken together, these concepts tie “historical thinking” to competencies in “historical literacy.”.

Historical Thinking Concepts Historical Thinking Project The six “historical thinking concepts” are: historical significance, primary source evidence, continuity and change, cause and consequence, historical perspectives and ethical dimensions. Description: workshops for educators raise awareness of historical thinking and the historical thinking project, and can be used to target particular historical concepts of interest to a board of education or group of department heads (e.g., historical perspective taking). If the past is everything that has ever happened, and history is comprised of narratives that are told about the past, then historical thinking is the cognitive process of analyzing and interpreting historical evidence to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct historical narratives. Historical thinking focuses on teaching students to analyze and interpret historical evidence to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct historical narratives.

Historical Thinking Ms Thom S Learning Community If the past is everything that has ever happened, and history is comprised of narratives that are told about the past, then historical thinking is the cognitive process of analyzing and interpreting historical evidence to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct historical narratives. Historical thinking focuses on teaching students to analyze and interpret historical evidence to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct historical narratives. What is historical thinking? watch this introductory video (or download the transcript) for an overview of ways of thinking inherent in knowing and doing history. Historical thinking, which is defined as the cognitive process of analyzing and interpreting historical evidence to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct historical narratives about the past, is a central concept for teaching, learning, and researching history education around the world. Empowered students are able to assess the significance of historical events or processes, and make meaning of evidence across many forms. they ask probing questions of evidence to examine both continuity and change over time, and to assess the causes and consequences of events and actions. In this article, we discuss the challenges in assessment of historical thinking, describe how these issues were dealt with in a 1 hr test of students ability to reason about “enemy aliens” in canada during world war i, and make recommendations for future assessments.