Controversial Topics Humanities Teaching 
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.
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.
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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.
Sapiens
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Does someone teach them to start conversations like this? Archaeology is the study of our human ancestors. As I listen in a little closer, I realize they’re debating everyone’s favorite controversial topic: headdresses worn by white people. Mind if we chat for a bit?” the woman asks me. Out loud, I play along. I speak up.
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.
C3 Teachers
JUNE 6, 2024
See my first post on The Building Blocks of Inquiry here If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. If you can, embrace them!
C3 Teachers
JUNE 6, 2024
If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom.
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