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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Those resources present the latest discoveries from primary sources, place-based learning, graphic novels, podcasts, and videos. The resources that frame these rich offerings are created by master teachers, working with Annie, who have taught these subjects themselves.

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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

Another trend in social studies education is the emphasis on project-based learning. One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups. I have these available for my entire curricula in World and US History. Service Learning project.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

With thousands of teachers using Zinn Education Project lessons each year, we hear amazing stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom. Paradoxically, teaching people’s history leaves more room for hope than any other educational framework. Here are just a few. History students.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

So when they’re not centered in that narrative, or their ideas are not centered, then they tend to say this is not of educational value.” In Philadelphia and Norfolk, it has strengthened educators’ resolve to teach comprehensively about the subject and added to their sense of urgency. course targeted by Gov.

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