Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amy Livingston never expected to find a vocation in teaching America’s story. She never expected to teach at all. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. I have a thorough World History PBL packet that can be used in any unit. One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. The department said the documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.”.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time. Samantha Clarke teaches a sixth-grade combined math and science class at Capital City Public Charter School. The results they cite are promising.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Pick Content-Focused Classroom Décor Wall Maps – Hang the largest-size wall maps you can fit, depending on what you teach. This world map is 46x80in , perfect for a giant wall space, or this smaller one is 24x36in if that’s all your room. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You can find over 50 primary source worksheets and resources here to use throughout the school year so that every unit in your US history curriculum includes these activities to improve reading comprehension and analytical skills. Each curriculum includes hundreds of activities you can immediately implement into your classes!

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History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 52

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

I executed the COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement activity with my 9th grade U.S. History students. Since I teach a majority Latinx student population, they were immediately hooked. The next day, we dove into the document analysis activity compiled by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Here are just a few.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

As “expert witness,” the poem’s speaker translates for legal documents: “I type tortures—.” And they have much to teach us. Engage these poets as they speak of their worlds, histories, and communities. Duncan’s poem simultaneously disrupts many of our assumptions as readers and re-plants us in new understandings.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, according to documents published by WHYY shortly after the election, school administrators were imposing new restrictions. In the days after November’s school board election, he said, it felt like teachers had come “back from the dead.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. and African American history. Americans have been arguing over what to teach children about U.S. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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