2011 Conference Resources
The 2011 MOCHE Conference was held at the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Our keynote speaker was Dr. David Wheelock, economic scholar at the St. Louis Fed.
History Teaching is Literacy Teaching
This presentation was given by Bob Bain, University of Michigan.
Every history lesson is a literacy lesson, whether we realize it or not. Therefore, history instruction should attend to the challenges students have using and producing historical text and it should be built around explicit, detailed and thorough attention to use and produce historical text.
Bringing Literature, Writing and Inquiry to Life Through Blogging: Missouri During the Civil War
This presentation was given by Julia Armstrong and Sarah Carleton-Marshall, Springfield Public Schools.