Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 12, 2021

Following up on my previous post , I’m going to share a fantastic blog post from Michael Kaechele : I have grown weary of the call to avoid controversial topics and stay neutral. Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer). Silence is compliance.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics. Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization? He believes that teaching students to analyze media expands their ability to critically interpret information, whatever their political leanings.

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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.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

However, I hope that somewhere on the list is one challenge that I think never really goes away (and maybe never should): teaching controversial issues. This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom. The point is, controversial topics WILL make it into your classroom.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music. This curriculum taught deep reading and comprehension skills, discussion, argumentation, and writing.

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Controversial Topics Middle School Social Studies Library 76

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music. This curriculum taught deep reading and comprehension skills, discussion, argumentation, and writing.

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Controversial Topics Middle School Social Studies Library 71

Social Studies Success

JANUARY 18, 2023

Manipulatives can be an exciting tool to add to your teacher toolbox for Social Studies, they provide you many opportunities to both teach and practice Social Studies skills and content. Artifact boxes work great to introduce and era or region, but you must be careful to avoid controversial topics with these boxes.

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Artifacts Controversial Topics Social Studies Teaching 52

C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

However, I hope that somewhere on the list is one challenge that I think never really goes away (and maybe never should): teaching controversial issues. This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom. The point is, controversial topics WILL make it into your classroom.

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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.

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Controversial Topics Psychology Elementary School Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy and Formation

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Sharing family anecdotes & stories that enrich children's knowledge of the past (BUT avoid controversial topics!). As you share your own stories as parents, you help to build family traditions, as well as teaching them how to tell stories themselves. What was the funniest thing that happened at school this year"?

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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. Yeah, and our teachers are white, but we teach the other students through our stories,” I add. Mind if we chat for a bit?”

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Archaeology Anthropology Controversial Topics Museum 116

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Free speech is tied to academic freedom — the autonomy to teach and research ideas without the consequence of retaliation. Colleges defend professors’ rights to pursue controversial topics of discussion such as climate change, police brutality, charter schools and pornography.

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Controversial Topics Leadership Charter School Government 108

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.

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Social Studies Civics Controversial Topics Elementary School 111

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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Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy 52

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. References Wilson, H., Chowdhury, Z., Parker- Guest, H., Pavlona, K.,

Human Rights 40

Human Rights Geography Humanities Controversial Topics 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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. Brian Rosenberg] At the institution where I’m teaching right now, Harvard University, the simple answer is no.

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Leadership Controversial Topics Cultures Tradition 104

Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

For instance, teaching online information literacy by pre-selecting a small handful of resources for students to analyze is vastly different from teaching students to navigate and make sense of our vast, complex online information commons. School leaders also must create safe spaces for teaching and learning about controversial topics.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Adults from all political affiliations largely agreed that teaching reading, writing and math were “very important,” according to the survey results, with a majority saying a free education and learning about civics were likewise important. The political divide became more pronounced as the topics became more complex.

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Education Controversial Topics Civics Elementary School 144

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2025

The questions need to be open-ended enough to spark conversation between multiple groups, says Gannon, who also teaches history. But Gannon and other teaching experts say this narrative is over-emphasized. In the past, his prompts have asked students about specific readings theyve done or the cause and effect of certain events.

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Controversial Topics Political Science Tutoring Psychology 136

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. Public schools must teach students about democratic struggles over suffrage and civil rights and the nation’s history of white supremacy. We can’t teach “young people this myth that there are people in this nation who don’t deserve certain things.”.

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Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 138

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When she started at the school in August, she was told not to say anything “political” in class — a difficult mandate for an educator whose job it is to teach about politics. Palu’s principal backed her up, but she worries about backlash when she tackles controversial topics in the future. Duane Moore teaches U.S.

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Controversial Topics Social Studies Government American History 111

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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Controversial Topics Teaching Civics Civic Engagement 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Even among supporters of diversity and inclusion, some progressive and independent academics concede that some elements of DEI could discourage discussion of controversial topics for fear of offending some students. I call it indoctrination, they call it teaching. Jeannie Suk Gersen teaches constitutional law at Harvard.

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