Corey R. Sell is an Associate Professor of Elementary Education at the Metropolitan State University of Denver where he teaches social studies methods, elementary pedagogy, and diversity courses. His research interests include elementary social studies and pre-service teacher knowledge development. He advocates for elevating the status of social studies, focusing specifically on the teaching of disciplinary literacy and historical inquiry to elementary students. His work has been published in several journals including Social Studies and the Young Learner and The Social Studies. He also aims to develop pre-and in-service teachers’ interest in and knowledge of elementary social studies curriculum within his methods courses by studying his own teaching, which has led to a book chapter and a research publication within the Social Studies Journal. Prior to earning his Ph.D. in Education from George Mason University in May 2013, he was an elementary classroom teacher in Virginia for 12 years.
Bayard Rustin: Shifting a Civil Rights Leader from the Shadows to the Spotlight
Bayard Rustin: Shifting a Civil Rights Leader from the Shadows to the Spotlight
Bayard Rustin organized one of the most successful forms of protest in our country’s history—the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Yet, he is often silenced within the PK-12 curriculum because of his sexual orientation as an out, gay man. In this webinar, I will describe how I utilized the four dimensions of the C3 Inquiry Arc and the Library of Congress resources to design an inquiry that challenges both the dominant and heteronormative narratives of the Civil Rights Movement. I will also share my planning processes including the use of the Library of Congress website to locate sources and my inductive approach towards framing the inquiry with a compelling and supporting questions. Instructional strategies and classroom ideas will be shared for applying this work in an elementary or middle grade setting. In addition, I will engage participants in conversation on ways to use this work in a methods course to support the development of social studies pedagogical content knowledge.
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