Open to: Middle and High School Teachers
Opportunity at a Glance: We invite grades 6-12 socail studies teachers to participate in this professional learning session that will focus on Document-Based Questions (DBQs), which requires sophisticated historical thinking and literacy skills, that are often inaccessible to multilingual learners.
This professional learning session has been updated to do the following:
- Suit the specific needs of various audiences;
- Present a methodology for making Document-Based Questions (DBQs) both accessible and relevant to multi-lingual learners through scaffolding tools; and
- Present a new creation of Document-Based Questions (DBQs) reated by a team of history teachers and English Language specialists from Massachusetts through a Library of Congress grant.
Key dates: Thursday November 13 from 6:00p.m. – 7:00p.m. ET
Location: Online
Registration deadline: 11/13/2025
Take action: Learn more and register here: https://www.ilctr.org/events/building-access-dbqs-multilingual-learners/
For more information: Ariana Moir, amoir@ilctr.org
