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A Comprehensive Approach to Teaching Current Issues
Close Up’s supplemental resources are designed to provide middle and high school students with multiple perspectives on debatable current events.
To help teachers better promote thoughtful discourse and facilitate productive classroom deliberations using our Current Issues resources, please check out our Professional Development trainings available for individuals, schools, or districts.
I learned that there’s a huge network of people with the same goals and drive as me…
and that our collaboration really could make a difference. It gave me hope for the future of our communities and our nation!
As a government teacher, it’s nice to have more resources…
for teaching media literacy and having students critically think about the information they receive.
I plan to introduce Close Up’s professional development to the teachers I work with…
and use this as a part of my school’s requirement that students take action on issues of local, national, and international importance.
Close Up is a positive experience for students…
seeing themselves as having the power to influence the democratic process.