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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

provides connection and coherence through the careful effort of trained human curators, making more than ten thousand articles from five hundred publications easily searchable and interconnected. Our other big project, New American History , under the direction of Annie Evans, addresses the time and confidence challenges in different ways.

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Teaching the Constitution in the Context of Human Behavior

Teaching American History

“That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.” For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.” After Little’s students read an excerpt of Federalist 51, he asks them whether Madison’s view of human nature is correct.

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Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union

Teaching American History

There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History. The expression of that principle, in our Declaration of Independence, was most happy and fortunate.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

A Human Relations Committee Forms to Plan Integration In Belmont, a small town just west across the Catawba River from Charlotte, school integration presented fewer logistical problems, because segregated schools for black and white children were situated within a mile of each other. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.))

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Designing and Facilitating Learning for an Alternating A-B Hybrid Schedule

Catlin Tucker

I recommend teachers pull any learning activity that will benefit from human interaction, peer support, and social learning into synchronous time. For example, a social science teacher covering early American history could complement that work with a question like, “ What did it mean to be an American?

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In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Teaching American History

But only a year after his I Have a Dream speech, King doubted that in his day, true equality before the law could be achieved without compensatory consideration for those deprived as a result of American slaverya category of citizens that King argued would include millions of poor whites in addition to most blacks of his day.

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To Make Assignments More Meaningful, I’m Giving Students a More Authentic Audience

ED Surge

At first, I started small, taking one unit from my American History class — “The Early Republic,” — and reflecting on why students truly needed to learn the content, how it’s relevant today and what kinds of assignments would provide opportunities for students to write for an audience that would motivate them.