Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. While earning her Masters in secondary school education at Arizona State University, she’d observed Lindblom’s class.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

At least 30 colleges closed in 2023, according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. She says she joined the faculty because she was intrigued by the opportunity to be part of an education institution “that is actively working to put back those things that were taken from our people for so many decades.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I loved my colleagues on my social studies team; we shared resources and supported each other. A Socratic seminar? National Geographic wants to engage educators who teach about the world, how it works, and how students can make a difference. As a result, being a teacher can be lonely. I taught at a small school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. Many district leaders, ed tech entrepreneurs, education consultants and politicians have congratulated themselves for the swift, if bumpy, move to remote learning. But it’s not a joke. Now, it’s all that matters.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Across the hall, Beth Schefelker and Claire Madden, two other math education specialists, led a group of teachers and principals in adding fractions. Huinker, a professor who advised Hedges’ doctorate in math education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a legend among Milwaukee’s math teachers. she asked colleagues. “I

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. And it wasn't just happening in one class, but it was like happening in English, happening in social studies, happening in science. And I was like, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool.’

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The seminar will focus on the ancient Olympics and the daily life surrounding that quadrennial event. Teachers of Latin, social studies, physical education, a range of sciences, and English are just a few of those whom we would encourage to apply. Image Credits National Endowment for the Humanities Logo

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

But as an early teacher in social studies and ELA, misconceptions about the importance of authentically investigating history filled my brain. They were acquainted with critical thinking; they’d engaged in source analysis and even participated in Socratic Seminars. “We inherit our history.”

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

A non-partisan voter poll released on Friday found that 68 percent of California voters plan to vote yes on that state’s Proposition 58, known as the Multilingual Education Act. Ricardo Lara (D), the new proposition would largely eliminate the red tape involved in creating a bilingual education program. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Social studies teachers must lay the groundwork by earning students’ trust.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

Such cases were even more “soul-sapping” than the rigidities of the traditional education system. Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go. I’m super passionate about social studies, but many of my students are not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Now part of California’s extensive education code , the law holds that “all children in California public schools shall be taught English by being taught in English.”. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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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. 6; Love, 2019).

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