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The Early-Modern State: history lesson
Client: Cégep du Vieux-Montréal (Montreal, Quebec)
Date: Fall 2015
Challenge:
- Present a synthesis of historical interpretations of a major historical development: the emergence of modern states.
- Compare the emergence of the state apparatus in two parallel contexts – the kingdoms of France and England – for a period ranging from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.
Concepts and Methods:
- Content research and writing: Compilation of historiographical sources in bibliography and mediagraphy format. Comparative study of college-level history textbooks. Creation of a glossary for relevant historical concepts. Narrative synthesis of historical sources, following the format of a history lesson in lecture teaching mode.
- Instructional planning and design: Adaptation of a content plan for a 2h30 lesson, according to the content and evaluation rules and standards established in the syllabus. Writing course notes following a content plan. Design of educational activities to incorporate into the lesson. Creation of PowerPoints, adapted and enhanced in Prezi multimedia format.
Outcomes:
Lesson plan, with classroom activities. Teaching course content, with commented PREZI presentation. Interactive lecture delivered on November 13, 2015 at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, in front of 20 college students.
N.B. Sample materials in French only.
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Open in new tab Seventeenth-Century Colonial America: history lesson
Client: Collège Bois de Boulogne (Montreal, Quebec)
Date: Spring 2017
Challenge:
- Teach the history of 17th-century English colonies of the North American Eastern seaboard to college-level students.
- Help students contextualize 17th-century lived experience and Colonial-Era proto-American cultural and institutional developments.
Concepts and Methods:
- Lesson planning : Analysis of three college-level history manuals, for relevant course content and structure. Drafting of a minuted lesson outline, including classroom breaks and group activity periods. Creation of an annotated bibliography related to lesson content. Drafting of course notes, with reference to lesson outline.
- Teaching tools : Drafting of lesson PowerPoint. Identification of audio-visual teaching aids, to integrate into lesson PowerPoint. Story examples prepared to help students situate 17th-century lived experience. Preparation of a lesson glossary handout for students.
- Classroom activity : adaptation of Business Model Canvas to the history classroom, to help students role-play “17th-century entrepreneurs” : chartered colonial companies.
Outcomes:
- Delivery of course content to two college-level groups. Revision of lesson PowerPoint for greater clarity an concision for the second group taught.
- Exam questions pertaining to the lesson integrated into the mid-term exam. Grading of mid-term exam for both groups.
- Creation of a classroom activity prototype (see slide presentation, below): “The chartered colonial company as 17th-century startup”.
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