New Resources and References Vol. Success with primary source materials requires students to care about their investigations for reasons of their own. Students need to learn to work together collaboratively.
Teachers can provide students with simple rules and tools for using documents and writing histories.
These rules and tools help to teach the skills, habits, and attitudes of historians. Students can develop higher level thinking skills through evaluation and grading structures that require them to learn and practice how to solve problems. He describes specific classroom lessons, discussion topics, sample handouts, primary source materials, and excerpts from students' writings. Otherwise, what we teach will go in one ear and out the other and lack a life beyond the classroom.