Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

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. But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

Studying the early development of humans? I created a short web activity based on the site And Nova has a great documentary about the origins of humans, called "Becoming Human." National Geographic has a great interactive website with short stories about Lucy, Ida, and academic disciplines in archeology and paleontology.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

Thoughts of history bring forth lives once living. But the first humans once living here probably walked in hunting. As I sit with my breakfast, staring out on this river of history, I wonder who was the first European to see it?France It must lead to someplace important, an important place to be exploring. I will be patient.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A cross-posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. Discover the World has made available a new resource. Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has awakened after more than 800 years. Since the first eruption in March 2021, numerous fissures have opened across five locations, heavily affecting the town of Grindavík.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate. Beyond Hancock’s creations, Ancient Aliens dominates the History Channel.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

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. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

For the purpose of this blog, I will use the lens of situated learning theory, introduced by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, to examine the potential effectiveness of online learning. However, if humans learn by participating in their lives then how can online learning be effective? When people tackle everyday challenges, they learn.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This process is often not straightforward and indeed medicine has changed its mind over history as to what the aetiologies (causes) of various diseases are and even as to what the body looks like. Throughout most of history this interaction is what doctors have based their diagnosis and treatment pop.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. The treasure chest of human experience! Even Schimpffs Confectionery and the famous Louisville Modjeska Caramel is related to this human eddy.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. The treasure chest of human experience! Even Schimpffs Confectionery and the famous Louisville Modjeska Caramel is related to this human eddy.

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. So it is along these routes that the Civil War becomes the history described in this book. It deals primarily with the Central Kentucky Theater.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Luckily, there are tons of incredible sociology lessons to ensure students explore the underlying social forces that shape human behavior. It is so neat to explore social forces that shape human behavior! By joining the email list, you will also receive freebies for blog exclusive subscribers!

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. This could mean considering how a community or group (which could be as small as the classroom or as large as humanity) would perceive the subject or how it might affect or be affected by it.

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ASHP CML

JANUARY 12, 2023

Making Queer History Public Episode 1: LGBTQ+ Archives with Steven G. Fullwood Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 10:50 In the first episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with archivist, writer, and documentarian, Steven G. Read a blog post about the Black LGBTQ+ StoryCorps Archive at The Schomburg Center.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

After their visit, scholars will write a piece for the Future of the Past Lab’s blog. The Center for Premodern Studies (CPS) is the home for collaborative scholarship and outreach in the historical humanities and social sciences at the University of Minnesota.

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Ben Newmark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Except it won’t, because it can’t, because planning is a human process that only happens in human minds. One history teacher might make the PowerPoints for Year 7 Normans while another would do Year 8 Industrial Revolution saving time for both. For teachers it brings great news too.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. Bruff may have coined the term “Assignment Makeovers” with his series of blog posts inspired by watching the TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”)

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. One of the most powerful questions they asked is a question about space: “What was the home you grew up in like?”

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In the previous post in this series I discussed how we can see public health strategies as “technologies” which reveal human health, life and behaviour in particular ways and act as tools for changing these. The DSM has gone through several different versions in its history. and Horwitz, A.V. and Abi-Rached, JM.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs.

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Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” ” I consider it to be the study of humans and the variety of relationships humans have. However, for much of my career, I have studied non-human animals (mostly primates).

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Becoming a History Teacher

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a soft spot for Strictly Come Dancing. However, at the end of the longest term known to humanity, finding joy in mentoring can be hard for those of you on the ground who often mentor alongside already overstretched timetables. Becoming a History Teacher Blog. Haydn, T. &

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

And some of these celestial movements seem to mysteriously track human reproduction. The female cycle of menstruation and the duration of human gestation seemed to take on an added, special significance, when our distant ancestors looked up to the heavens and noted their similar movements. Reaching so far back into history?

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. My goal, for this blog post is twofold.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 9, 2024

In any class that focuses on the Founding era in our MA in American History & Government program (MAHG) , you’re almost certainly going to discuss Federalist #1 and how often human history is shaped by “accident and force” instead of “reflection and choice.” Some of them have been featured on this blog before.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. Special needs students use GIS to help them understand and document tasks in their day.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Within those revolting revolutions are presented new opportunities; opportunities for time’s past history to reassert itself, cross over, and temporarily connect up with future developments. The treasure chest of human experience! Even Schimpff’s Confectionery and the famous Louisville Modjeska Caramel is related to this human eddy.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of culture, history, and scientific exploration. What a special space of beauty in the place of this natural and human history. ” More human history, I am afraid! Early on in our sedimentary history, three ancient land masses [Gondwana, Laurentia, and Baltica] began to drift together.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You're creating a lifelong habit here that dramatically influences human health. Don't get me started on the history of keeping the toilet away from the kitchen in human history, it took us forever to figure this one out.) And when you first start, just clear your calendar for a couple of days.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You're creating a lifelong habit here that dramatically influences human health. Don't get me started on the history of keeping the toilet away from the kitchen in human history, it took us forever to figure this one out.) And when you first start, just clear your calendar for a couple of days.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

This helps me keep this blog running. Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. Travel or Hobbies – Find a way to highlight your outside hobbies to humanize yourself.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. a retired English teacher who blogs about education and is the Colorado coordinator of the Education Policy Fellowship Program. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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