Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. Closing opportunity gaps, especially among new majority populations, can be facilitated by the availability of well-trained, culturally responsive and resourced school counselors and college advisors.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

An unstable workforce also affects the school culture, said Pipes: “Once we have people here that are years and years and years in, we know how things are run.” It’s the night of the final class of her course, “Children with Special Needs: History and Practice.” She takes her online classes at night or on weekends.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. Adrienne Hudson speaks to fellow educators during the RISE Teacher’s Night Out at the Crossroads Cultural Arts Center in Clarksdale, Mississippi last December.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Her mom said Tye’s school, McDonogh 35 Senior High School, wasn’t giving her the academic support she needed to improve her score, so Mansion had to go elsewhere for help — taking Tye to programs at the local university, and paying for private tutoring. “We Now she wants others to learn that history.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. Instead of taking some random history course, you might choose “History of Science,” which counts toward both F.S.U.’s Three missed meetings are grounds for expulsion. “We

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MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For example, my research is on Parkinson’s disease, using magnetic resonance imaging to understand how comorbidities and health-life histories may change the rate of cell death in a critical region of interest in the brain. Making this change will maintain a culture of excellence while giving all students an alternate pathway to success.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. Uwahnie Martinez (left), the owner of Palmento Grove Cultural Center in Belize, helps Frederick A.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Sociologist Ann Swidler calls these strategies “ cultural repertoires.” And even while many parents aspire to have their children go to college, our cultural repertoires for attaining that goal are different. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools.

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 31, 2024

If a history teacher fails to spot a child is drawing anime characters in their jotter instead of answering a question on the feudal system, they are not included. It is normal for children to want to do stuff they want to do more than stuff the don’t, and if all children wanted to be in school learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We have classroom tutors now. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. There’s just so much that’s been shaken up in our country, in our culture, in our education system. Our district has realized some of our challenges. They have put extra support in place to support us.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Wylie, who has trained in therapeutic crisis intervention, now works with kids in grades 6 to 12 who have been suspended from their home schools and are attending tutoring at the district’s Washington Irving Educational Center, where the diversion program is housed. Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

But this next chapter in our country’s education history must dwarf those efforts. Increase students’ access to tutoring, after school activities and interventions to help address lost instructional time. Ensure students have access to culturally relevant coursework that is rigorous and prepares them for their futures.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

He’s gotten assistance in the form of grants, tutoring and counseling from a nonprofit called Generation Hope that supports student parents and which he calls a “huge blessing.” It prepares men with children for high school equivalency tests and college by providing classes, tutoring, counseling and parenting seminars.

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JUNE 11, 2017

The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture. Tutors danced. And a total of eight Match students had been accepted to Northeastern University , the most in Match history. dean of students Robert Hendricks exclaimed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

School district leaders there, many of whom started their careers in small-town classrooms, now grapple with big-city problems: large class sizes, stretched budgets, crowded school buildings and too few staff, especially those with the cultural and language skills to serve this region’s diversifying student base.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

They’re adding more faculty who reflect the school’s increasing diversity, introducing cultural programming and establishing counseling and mentoring programs to help Latinx students overcome stubborn academic resource gaps. In response, some universities are starting to cater to their growing Latinx populations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The culture was pretty toxic when we got here,” said Roark, who began at the school as a guidance counselor in 2008. “To The culture was pretty toxic when we got here. Another deal with Berea College brought close to a dozen AmeriCorps volunteers into the school to act as tutors and help support students through tough personal issues.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

That’s because human beings didn’t invent written language until relatively recently in human history, just a few thousand years ago. Seidenberg knows of a child who was struggling so much with reading that her mother paid for a private tutor. But, as numerous studies have shown, reading is different.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Cara Fitzpatrick When I read this book, I learned some fascinating and frankly ugly things about the history of school choice in the U.S. There’s also this rise of ESAs (education savings accounts) where you could pay for online classes or tutoring or tuition. It’s very flexible. And it’s not even a subtle one.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. I assumed we’d work around it, or better yet, incorporate it in meaningful ways.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

“We have far too many kids in the city who just need an opportunity like I did, to go to a school that pushes them,” said Valenzuela, who teaches history at Boston Latin Academy. School culture affects whether students apply and decide to attend, and those decisions affect school culture, she found.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

“We’ve never seen such a need in the history of Puerto Rico. Victor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez, president of the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico The money has so far been used to pay for temporary teacher salary increases, hire hundreds of school mental health professionals and fund tutoring programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color. No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Her mother is an English tutor working for the school district and her father works at Tyson.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

We have a history here, in the Delta, that most African-Americans do feel powerless,” Dickerson said. Math and literacy tutors showed up once a week, or just once a month. She was ready for schools that reflected the community’s voice, priorities and diverse cultures. Toney used new books.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Later that year, after widespread school closures, Trump issued an executive order allowing states to use money from a federal poverty program to help low-income families pay for private schooling, homeschooling, special education services or tutoring. Vance, meanwhile, made education culture war issues central to his 2022 run for Senate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. She has spoken out about the mental health toll of trauma, including from poverty, and the need for more resources and “culturally competent” mental health providers.

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