Controversial Topics, Cultures and Teaching

Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

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.

Government

Government Controversial Topics American History Civics

Promoting Literacy: Cultivate a Reading Culture

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

September 8th is International Literacy Day, a great time to think about promoting a class culture that values reading. Below are strategies and resources I’ve used to cultivate a reading culture in my classroom. Reading logs are a controversial topic. Cultivating a culture of reading doesn’t happen overnight.

Cultures

Cultures Controversial Topics Library Tradition

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

Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. It also constitutes really good history teaching.

History

History Teaching Controversial Topics Tutoring

Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

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. Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics.

Civics

Civics Controversial Topics Education Social Studies

A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

Controversial Topics

Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12

Finding Our Way Forward—by Remembering

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Does someone teach them to start conversations like this? As I listen in a little closer, I realize they’re debating everyone’s favorite controversial topic: headdresses worn by white people. But I still feel a kinship to all Native people, and the conflating of our cultures makes everything feel personal, for better or worse.

Archaeology

Archaeology Anthropology Controversial Topics Museum

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

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. Schools pass on the value of silence to their teachers and students.

Controversial Topics

Controversial Topics Psychology Elementary School Pedagogy

How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world

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. . — One of the longtime goals of public education is to produce young people capable of participating in the democratic process.

Social Studies

Social Studies Civics Controversial Topics Elementary School

Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

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.

Social Studies

Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy

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

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’.

Human Rights

Human Rights Geography Humanities Controversial Topics

College Uncovered: The Politics of the College Presidency

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Kirk] And Rivera says that has consequences for turnover rates and campus culture. Kirk] Yet critics say it’s the presidents who are making the job more political by being so outspoken about controversial topics, rather than focusing on the central missions of their schools. Sound of protest] [Jon] And Rosenberg says Oct.

Leadership

Leadership Controversial Topics Cultures Tradition

Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” Public schools must teach students about democratic struggles over suffrage and civil rights and the nation’s history of white supremacy. The pathology is white supremacy,” he said.

Teaching

Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics

OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

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.

Controversial Topics

Controversial Topics Teaching Civics Civic Engagement

College Uncovered: DEI Backlash

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

College campuses have become battlegrounds in America’s culture wars, with diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the center of the debate. Christopher Partain] I don’t think that we necessarily need to teach ideologies that are politically driven and motivated. I call it indoctrination, they call it teaching.

Controversial Topics

Controversial Topics Civics Political Science Tutoring

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