Explore the history and background of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process through primary source documents and teaching strategies that support critical analysis of texts. Major historical developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict including current issues under negotiation will be discussed. Participants will develop content knowledge, experience student activities, and receive a packet and links to digital resources with detailed lesson plans including primary source documents, maps, and all necessary student materials. Curricular resources emphasize informational texts with text-dependent and document-based questions to support close, analytic reading and evidence-based responses, new literacy strategies, and best practices in the use of technology in the classroom. Participants will be able to deliver rigorous, standards-based instruction, meeting state social studies content standards. High School World History and Global Politics teachers, and their colleagues who seek to enrich their general content knowledge, will greatly benefit from this workshop.
