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Announcing the 2024 Students of History Scholarship Winner

Students of History

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education.

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3 studies argue against fidget spinners in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

So 2017, right? 26, 2019 in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, looked at what happened when researchers randomly gave fidget spinners to college students and had them watch educational videos in a laboratory setting at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A student plays with a fidget spinner at school.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We percent in 2017. In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. percent in 2017. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In the paper, Willingham traces the history of teaching critical thinking.

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What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? A coronavirus case study

The Hechinger Report

They had no idea they’d be putting those plans into action the very next day, when they’d be facing the most destructive blaze in California history. Now it’s more dealing with it psychologically than physically,” Bryan says. Now it’s more dealing with it psychologically than physically.”.

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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

In fact, down the hallway from his algebra class, two industrious history teachers were trying out their own strategies. After the June 2017 Regents, 25 of the 41 students who had repeatedly failed the state exam passed — a rate of 61 percent. Gallin’s school was one of them. The small tweaks paid off.

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