Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! My district has dropped our textbook and we are switching to primary sources. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

TCI’s free social studies activities will keep students engaged throughout the year as they explore the history behind Labor Day and biographies for Black History Month. Review the list to find seasonal social studies lessons, primary source activities, and biographies for K-12 classrooms.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As we reboot Doing Social Studies, we’d love to introduce you to this month’s author, Nathan McAlister. Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. The post Preparing for a One Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. I noticed something strange, however.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Joining social studies teacher groups on Facebook, she built her own professional learning community (PLC). “I The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. Taking on MAHG Studies Livingston applied for the fellowship.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While I was aware of segregation and racism in the military at this time, and the response to returning veterans like Isaac Woodard, I hadn’t realized all the ways African Americans were discriminated against, particularly with regards to the violence shown towards them and the efforts to keep them from fighting in Europe and the Pacific.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. We even have a set of worksheets devoted just to developing history skills.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. A careful reading of the Constitution reveals what American democracy “looks like structurally.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. history and social studies curriculums. history and its legacy today.”

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Because everyone who studies fascism knows that fascists are always democratically elected to then destroy democracy. You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources. And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Because everyone who studies fascism knows that fascists are always democratically elected to then destroy democracy. You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources. And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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