Civics Controversial Topics Teaching 
Teaching American History
MARCH 11, 2025
Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. She also encourages them to figure out their own political views and to actively engage in civic life. Well, how do I teach government without talking about controversial topics?
ED Surge
MARCH 26, 2024
He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.
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ED Surge
MARCH 30, 2023
Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. Together, we explored how to engage in civic life with love and wisdom. My goal is to treat each student as someone with a unique perspective about the topics we are exploring together.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 26, 2022
Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics. I often put a dot on my board,” said Chris Kerrick, a civics teacher at Marshall County High School in rural southwestern Kentucky. “I Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization?
The Hechinger Report
JULY 11, 2018
Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students.
C3 Teachers
MAY 23, 2022
In my own work, inquiry has become much more than a way to deploy content and sharpen skills; the lexicon of inquiry has become the way I think about teaching and learning more broadly. Most importantly, I want the course content to be relevant to their lives as future teachers, and I want them to see themselves as civic and political actors.
ED Surge
APRIL 26, 2024
One hope is that rather than balkanizing into red state and blue state education policy agendas , that we can have sensible, civic-minded reforms that large majorities of people can support.” The largest division was on whether “teaching children the importance of embracing differences” was important.
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