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Sources Talking to Other Sources

C3 Teachers

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!

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Responding to a summer of riots: Principles for teaching about sensitive issues in the history classroom

Becoming a History Teacher

This blog is jointly authored by Vic Crooks and Laura London based on a presentation we gave at the Historical Association Conference in May 2024. And critically, utilizing their expert knowledge to help their pupils to recognise the line between debating controversial topics and engaging in racist or bullying or even illegal behaviours.

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Sources Talking to Other Sources

C3 Teachers

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. This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom.

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Sitting for long periods affect on teens’ mental health, resumés for robots and more in the news roundup

Psych Learning Curve

Writing a strong resumé for robot and human readers (Eye on Psi Chi) Thus, many companies have turned to automated software to help them discriminate among resumés. The current controversy about teaching reading: Comments for those left with questions after reading the new york times article.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

Increasing the self-knowledge, esteem and confidence of our young people builds resilience and skill in tackling controversial topics and issues, as detailed earlier by Chowdhury.* They are fundamentally values of human rights that are shared amongst vast numbers of the world’s population. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.