2020 Controversial Topics Social Studies 
C3 Teachers
JUNE 6, 2024
See my first post on The Building Blocks of Inquiry here If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. If you can, embrace them!
C3 Teachers
JUNE 6, 2024
If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. The point is, controversial topics WILL make it into your classroom.
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C3 Teachers
MAY 23, 2022
Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. Social studies classes shouldn’t frame conflict as a problem, but as a challenge, said Kawashima-Ginsberg. I personally love it because you know what?
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2020
In 2020, teaching about the presidential election feels more like teaching about the Second Amendment or the abortion rights debate. It’s time we looked at the 2020 presidential race not as one that is too contentious to touch, but rather as an exercise in how to teach controversial issues. Because this is a teachable moment.
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