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[msletizia]

My feeling is that the most significant challenge for me as a history teacher is explicitly teaching the historical skills to students with fairly limited current literacy and critical thinking ability so that they reach the year level standard and they develop the “twenty-first century skills”. I don’t want to water down the curriculum whatsoever but I have found it tough as a first year teacher to put all the jigsaw pieces together in time to get my students over the line. I would benefit from: a way of testing students straight up so I understand where they are at in their history skills, a range of resources that I can use to engage students and build skills, and perhaps some differentiated resources so that I can get everyone achieving.