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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. One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches. Some of them encourage her.
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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The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2020
When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science. Teaching topics like the science of vaccinations elicited little controversy. Now, every year, she reliably has a few students who push back against the topic. The NGSS was released in 2013.
Psych Learning Curve
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The current controversy about teaching reading: Comments for those left with questions after reading the new york times article. Daniel Willingham Blog) Over the weekend the New York Times published an article on the front page about the teaching of reading.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 15, 2022
Middle school science teacher Kent Heckenlively has spent part of his time teaching, well, not science. He’s held a teaching credential in the state since 2006, based on passing the state’s biological sciences and geosciences teaching exams, state records show. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.
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.
Geogramblings
DECEMBER 14, 2023
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.* British values’ are completely compatible with a DEI approach to teaching PSHE. Is there evidence that comedy is ‘dying’? References Wilson, H.,
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