Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.” For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.” After Little’s students read an excerpt of Federalist 51, he asks them whether Madison’s view of human nature is correct.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How can educators prepare students for an evolving future influenced by artificial intelligence? The emphasis on a human-centric approach underscores the commitment to cultivating a balanced perspective on AI integration. George is an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Dalton Savage, an Education Coordinator at NCHE, spoke with me about his experiences in the classroom and his current role at NCHE. history, Oklahoma History, U.S./Virginia Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. It’s about understanding humanity.”

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. Stipel took the group to the former Lostice synagogue and gave them the history of the Jews in Lostice. Lostice is a town of about 3,000 people.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

At NCHE conferences , for example, a glance at the program reveals that most sessions focus on an important moment or a major problem in history and offer a strategy to present it in a new way. This writing tends to be engaging, brief, and pointed, relating history to current concerns, and spanning political perspectives.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A Window Into Humanity’s Past Hunter-gatherer societies represent the foundation of human history, defining how humans lived for 99% of our existence. These findings deepen our understanding of humanity’s shared history and highlight the enduring adaptability that has defined human societies for millennia.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. Might those white parents whose children drew black teachers complain?

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Equity In Education: A Definition by Terry Heick In a profession increasingly full of angst and positioning and corrective policy, there are few ideas as easy to get behind as equity. While progress is being made in sub-Saharan Africa in primary education, gender inequality is in fact widening among older children. Equilibrium.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. My desire to know exploded.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

See also 10 Roles For Artificial Intelligence In Education 2. Simulation and Role-Playing Simulate AI processes with hands-on activities Human Algorithms: Students can act as parts of an algorithm by sorting themselves by height or birth month. This helps them understand sorting processes.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 30, 2017

" The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." - Albert Schweitzer A major Category 4 Hurricane hit the Corpus Christie area in South Texas last Friday leaving a path of destruction. Friends, family, colleagues, and connected educators used the medium to reach out. We were lucky.

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Humanities Leadership History Education 229

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 12, 2019

I often reflect upon how, throughout the course of history, many of society’s most celebrated success stories went through the heartache and letdown of not succeeding at first. An aspect of human nature is that when we are in a state of comfort, there is no real urgency to do something differently or better.

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History Humanities Leadership Education 356

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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History Teaching Controversial Topics Tutoring 121

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. to discuss how public education will adapt to a rapidly changing world. Related: Go vote.

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Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 111

TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Relevant: Your objectives should match your overall educational or employment goals. Explore biological systems and their functions in human biology. History Examples of student learning goals for history learners include: Analyze the causes and effects of significant historical events. Time-bound: Set a deadline.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. This award gave me the chance to reflect on the purpose of the arts in education and provided a platform for me to explain to those who will listen why the arts are a core subject based on their own merits.

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Education Humanities K-12 High School 145

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2018

During the day he was a certified life insurance underwriter for New York Life and had years of higher education beyond a bachelor’s degree. With all the hoopla in regards to maker education and makerspaces I wanted to take a minute to share that this is not a new concept. Has it evolved – definitely! Age is irrelevant.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Department of Education and celebrated at a gala in their honor. I'm a human being.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. I was always interested in history. But I did enjoy teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

Education systems were built on the belief that if we filled young minds with enough knowledge, progress would follow. We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. The best doctors dont just diagnose; they listen.

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Humanities Economics Professional Development High School 78

Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Thus, small children were considered particularly suited to bridging the gap between the worlds and delivering messages to non-human entities."​

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Archaeology Cultures Humanities History 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2024

From the first exploratory interviews I did on this topic, I was surprised to learn how deep the history of AI trying to teach went. The story was produced in partnership with The Education Reporting Collaborative, an eight-newsroom effort. The post AI vs. humans: Who comes out ahead? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Humanities Tutoring History High School 103

ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Katz describe as the “ formative years.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A better understanding of the long arc of technology history might just help us make a course correction, he argues. Smith lays out his views in a new book, “ The Internet is Not What You Think It is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says. “But

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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K-12 Education Psychology Humanities 137

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 125

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

Last week, the ASHP was one of many organizations and individuals suddenly notified about the termination of grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its state humanities councils bring reading programs, traveling exhibits, and authors to some of the country’s most rural corners.

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Museum Archiving Library American History 52

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

The question itself highlighted the limitations of traditional grading, a system that has been shown to be problematic by so many people in education circles but still remains as the most common way schools manage and assess student learning. “There is no ceiling with competency-based education,” Blankenship says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

AI involves creating computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. Higher Education. I don’t want that to happen in education yet again.” That left me thinking that it’s from other humans that we tend to learn the most — and peers and teachers will always play a central role in education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Specifically, we can focus on our roles as human and social engineers, helping to develop young people and creating the world of the future in collaboration with them. We need human connection to develop, and schools are integral to growing those abilities in every child. This is another way that human teachers are essential.

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Teaching Education Humanities Tutoring 144

ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide.

Education 124

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Good teachers respond to the needs of the students they seek to educate. Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R.

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