Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. When they are first introducing this approach, teachers are advised to make the thinking tasks non-curricular, fun challenges that will help develop a culture of thinking.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy K-12 Library Tradition 130

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? That mindset reflects a broader cultural anxiety, and when teachers don’t like the subject it hinders student achievement. “I

K-12 133

K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 133

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. The kind of behaviors that we get in this ‘gotcha’ culture of social media are directly the opposite of what is productive in conversation. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Library Social Studies Social Justice 130

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

History 106

History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 106

C3 Teachers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Social studies teachers look out into the eyes of a new group of students petrified that the inquiry bridge might not appear. They liken inquiry-based teaching to a holy grail of social studies where they reap exponential rewards. After all, inquiry is filled with unknowns.

Critical Thinking 52

Critical Thinking Social Studies Civics Pedagogy 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Another approach is to look into our curricula to find places where the contributions of many cultures can be more fully acknowledged. We’ll be doing this here with a specific focus on Arab cultures.

Social Studies 130

Social Studies Cultures History Pedagogy 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Saykhamphone and other Black students at the school found this lesson offensive, but their teacher did not understand why until students talked to Fairfax County’s culturally responsive pedagogy specialists to intervene. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

History 102

History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 102

C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No From the 1990s on, the question of how good your history is became secondary to how completely did you conform to Alabama culture,” Flynt said.

History 104

History K-12 Library Social Studies 104

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Many of the practices I have personally advocated for on Cult of Pedagogy, like calling students by their preferred names and pronouns and teaching accurate history , would likely get a teacher flagged by this policy, and right now I’m not sure what the best course of action is when it comes to these practices.

Teaching 183

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Social Justice 183

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Schools are afraid of dividing and triggering their students amid the fraught, frenzied, hyperpartisan, superpolarized and downright ugly political culture of our country right now. Related: PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies. I understand — but urge these schools to reconsider.

Controversial Topics 141

Controversial Topics Teaching Civics Civic Engagement 141