Becoming a History Teacher

JULY 19, 2024

There is a shortage of physics, maths, geography teachers (add or delete as appropriate) therefore we need to recognise the market forces at work that draw them away from choosing teaching as a career. In my role as Co-Chair of HTEN (the History Teacher Educators Network) I have heard this story time and time again.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Tracing Ancient Interactions: The Role of Geography Scientists have examined the geographical distribution of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in Southwest Asia and Southeast Europe during the Late Pleistocene. New evidence 1 now suggests a specific geographic location where these two species met and interbred: the Zagros Mountains. 1 Guran, S.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

My Twitter notifications have been growing over the last few days because I was copied into a tweet from Jo Coles regarding challenges facing geography. What would you say have been the biggest challenges to geography’s place in education, or to geog’s curriculum, in the last 20 years? Many thanks. back in 1987. A few thoughts: 1.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014.

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. public domain) Baltoscandia was dreamed up back in 1928 by Sten de Geer, a Swedish geography professor. Call it the curse of history, but fears are easier realized than hopes.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy February 26, 2024 Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 3, 2024

With this study, we have seen that Arabs and Imazighen have not separated recently due to geography, culture, or language," says David Comas. Conclusion The study conducted by the IBE and UPF marks a significant advancement in our understanding of the genetic history of North African populations. 1 Serradell, J. Lorenzo-Salazar, J.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly. Jigsaw Strategy Oct.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Soii Havzak Rockshelter: Geography and Significance Soii Havzak is uniquely situated to shed light on the Zeravshan Valley’s ancient role as a crossroads. 1 Zaidner, Y., & Kurbanov, S. 1 Zaidner, Y., & Kurbanov, S. Soii Havzak: a new Palaeolithic sequence in Zeravshan Valley, central Tajikistan. Antiquity , 1–8.

Humanities 57

Humanities Archaeology Artifacts Heritage 57

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. A new study, published online on Feb.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. Riversong is here, and free for anyone to use. Hello: this is 'Riversong', a "broadside ballad" which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 14, 2024

SUNDAY 21 JANUARY 2024, 7pm to 9pm This free online event launches a year-long rollout that will offer opportunities to schools in Britain, and elsewhere, first-hand knowledge of the late Sam King’s seminal work. The suite of seven resources will show Windrush as just one, among many other chapters, of British post-WWII history.

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Living Geography

JULY 24, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog which has over 300 posts on it already. With some additional content. A nicely illustrated story from The Guardian described a plan to green the rooves of Paris.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 26, 2024

This year's Paris Olympics saw an event which took place the furthest from the location of the games in Olympic history. The surfing took place in a location called Teahupo’o This is in Tahiti, French Polynesia.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships. Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We will be reminded every day that this is your journal and that the prosperity of the discipline of political science is our overarching goal.” The new editorial team begins their editorship of the APSR on June 1, 2024, and their term runs through May 31, 2028. She also serves as Provost of Earl Warren College.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s.

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