Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you are teaching high school, this likely means that you can broach most news-worthy topics. Additionally, look for events that connect to the themes and concepts you're teaching in class. This is easiest to do in a Civics or American Government classroom. 3) Encourage critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of failure for aspiring Black and Latinx teachers is even higher than for aspiring white teachers, making lack of content knowledge preparation yet another obstacle to the diversification the teaching profession so dearly needs. Only 42 percent have said they felt very well prepared to teach social studies.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Credit: Jennifer Ray, Center to Support Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science. Janet Carlson is an associate professor at Stanford University and faculty director of the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Related: One state mandates teaching climate change in almost every subject — even PE. While 95 percent of 58,000 primary and secondary teachers in 2021 felt that teaching climate change is important, just 32 percent felt they can explain climate change in their local context. You have more critical thinking skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

These activities will include primary source analysis and critical thinking practice that is essential to getting kids ready for their assessments. In addition to the US History curriculum , there are also similar curricula available for World History and American Government / Civics.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

That’s why advanced reading correlates so highly with critical thinking skills. But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. He is a former New York City public school teacher and a founding director of Teach For America. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Challenge-based, problem-based, project-based, and civic learning through community engagement are approaches that share a common interest in authentic learning. Why is this important?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. I worked at Columbia [University], and a lot of those kids are given permission to think critically, but not all of our young people have been,” said Marta Esquilin, the new associate dean for the HLLC. “I

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Teaching the different forms of government seems easy enough – go over some definitions and provide examples, then quiz your students. But that’s not creating any real meaning for them, especially if your high school Civics students are somewhat familiar with them already. Here’s how I teach government systems meaningfully.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

New Jersey is set to become the first state in the nation to mandate teaching media literacy to students of all ages as a bill with the requirement heads to Gov. Spikes, director of Teach for Chicago Journalism at Northwestern University and co-founder of the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In undergraduate business and technology programs, pressure to confer marketable, quantifiable skills crowded out the broader systems thinking that ultimately makes great innovators and entrepreneurs. That broader view would inform their critical thinking in their respective fields.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Pick Content-Focused Classroom Décor Wall Maps – Hang the largest-size wall maps you can fit, depending on what you teach. 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.

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Social Studies Civics History Sociology 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if there’s one job that can’t be taken over by artificial intelligence, it’s teaching. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. The higher-order thinking that researchers predict will survive impending technological advancement is precisely the one in teachers’ toolkits. Related: Go vote.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sessions examined ways educators can navigate state laws that limit conversations on race and other difficult topics, as well as how they can develop the high quality materials and instruction those attending said was vital to preparing students for civic life.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. Only one-third of native-born Americans can correctly answer the basic civics questions required of naturalized individuals to achieve U.S. We are not setting our children up for success.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. How MAHG Expanded Czarnecki’s Teaching Czarnecki’s MAHG studies more than prepared her to take on such questions. She also pursues her own research.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. The simple multiple-choice questions found on most civics tests require memorization of unconnected facts in order to pass. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

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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. Like all good teaching, I started planning backwards. For example, when I write a syllabus, I always start with questions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Lessons like these help students gain critical thinking skills and give them an opportunity to learn about workers’ rights and labor history, subjects that are often missing from classroom discussions, educators say. Adam Sanchez found this to be the case when he started teaching U.S. Working people standing together did that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

But civics teachers can’t afford not to address Trump’s racist behaviors, especially his recent bigoted remarks on Jan. Leave this field empty if you're human: “Thinking about my immigrant students this morning and about the disgusting comments made by our president yesterday. I teach civics. Mississippi Learning.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

More importantly, I'd like to see those competencies focus on the skills needed in a globalized, information-rich economy – skills like empathy, collaboration, information literacy, critical thinking, resourcefulness, communication, and creativity.” ” Melissa Gedney. League of Innovative Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery in 1838 to become one of America’s greatest civil rights leaders, quoted his owner in his book Life of an American Slave : “[I]f you teach that n *r (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Educational leaders must take responsibility for instilling basic civic practices and virtues in their students immediately, or they may lose the option to autocrats who have other ideas on how to run a country. Nevertheless, the current push for college and career readiness is insufficient to develop a civic mentality.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

For most of my teaching career, I’ve felt reasonably confident that I performed a useful civic function in giving my charges a basic core narrative about the American past — one that included justifiable pride, even confidence, in a nationhood constituted on a set of ideals that could point the way toward the better angels of our natures.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. McHugh, Merrimack College (Discussant) Richard M.

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 8, 2024

State legislatures these days tthjnkbthat they should pass laws telling teachers how to teach reading and what to teach in social studies. Ohio Republicans have decided that teaching about capitalism is more important in troubled times than strengthening student learning opportunities about democracy. That’s right.

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Social Studies Critical Thinking Public School Teaching 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In years past, teaching about a presidential election meant teaching about the Electoral College, just making it a little more interesting. In 2020, teaching about the presidential election feels more like teaching about the Second Amendment or the abortion rights debate. Because this is a teachable moment.

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