Evaluate the Strategy for Use in Your Own Classroom

Discuss with your colleagues the challenges and benefits of using this session's strategy with your students or reflect on them in your journal.

1. How can you judge when your students have acquired sufficient knowledge to undertake the kind of analysis suggested here?
2. Are there dangers and pitfalls in allowing students to move forward and attempt an analysis if they have not gathered sufficient background on a historical era? Is there any beneficial way to have students move forward and analyze posters or materials without sufficient background knowledge?
3. What will be especially difficult for your students in doing this kind of work, and how can you assist them without overly influencing their ideas and thinking?