Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Lohrding enjoyed this time of socializing a chance to talk with teachers from all over the country who teach different groups of kids. Lohrdings Decision to Teach As a child, Lohrding met President George W.

Junior High 52

Junior High Library K-12 Social Studies 52

World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

It's from Crash Course Geography so it may not be noticed by those of us who teach history. Here's an excellent overview of how different religions spread along the Silk Road.

Geography 130

Geography History Teaching 130

Geography Education

MAY 14, 2024

“ GeoInquiries are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks. SOURCE: ESRI ESRI has produced GeoInquires for many diverse subjects , from American Literature to World History. Collections of 15–20 activities per topic enhance your curriculum throughout the year.”

Geography 130

Geography World History History Humanities 130

Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

Enter the Annotated Mapa strategy that helps students apply history to geography the way they would annotate a text. Annotated Maps + Dice Challenge On Wednesday, students took an initial Quizizz on how the U.S. acquired each territory. The class average across all periods was 49%clearly, they needed more time with the content.

Geography 98

Geography Social Studies Interactive Learning History 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem.

Social Studies 145

Social Studies Civics Geography Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

Geography 134

Geography Political Science Sociology History 134

TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

When students engage with history, geography, and civics, they develop the ability to analyze texts, draw connections between concepts, and retain new information more effectively. Adopt Knowledge-Building Curricula: Utilize high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) that embed social studies content within reading programs.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Primary Sources Civics Critical Thinking 52

Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The sources students consult, the kinds of arguments they make, differ from history to economics to geography.

Social Studies 75

Social Studies Geography Teaching Education 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Teachers described their challenges in combining in-person and remote teaching in a University of California, Santa Cruz, study published in January 2022. Bartlett compared this sort of dual teaching to driving a car on a highway while simultaneously playing a race-car video game on a screen. It’s completely absurd.”.

Oral History 141

Oral History Geography History High School 141

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. While I share their nostalgia for a time in the history of public education when that might have been true, the damning performance by the nation’s 12th graders in U.S.

K-12 126

K-12 Civics Social Studies Geography 126

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Instead, I wanted them to understand the colony’s region, its geography, and its economy. Frayer Model Activity Next, I handed out paper Frayer models where students wrote a colony name in the middle and added information about its government, geography, economy, and religion. It even provided a knowledge base for each founder!

Geography 128

Geography Government History Cultures 128

Living Geography

MAY 5, 2024

Earlier this week I spent an interesting day in Cambridge discussing the GCSE Natural History as a member of OCR's Consultative Forum. We were given a little window on what has happening to prepare the new subject for first teaching. There were some familiar faces as well as some new friends to meet. More on that as it comes.

History 52

History Geography Teaching 52

Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which has over 300 posts. A new article in 'Teaching Times' by Mary Colwell gives a bit of an update into the state of the GCSE Natural History, and its possible introduction in 2026. Textbooks will need to be written and teacher training and resource provisions put in place.

History 52

History Teaching Government 52

Becoming a History Teacher

JULY 19, 2024

There is a shortage of physics, maths, geography teachers (add or delete as appropriate) therefore we need to recognise the market forces at work that draw them away from choosing teaching as a career. Will they ever return to teaching? This is an argument we hear time and time again. Unable to make ends meet.

Geography 85

Geography History Teaching Tradition 85

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

K-12 144

K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 144

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics, political geography, sovereignty, Native American political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions. She specializes in American politics.

Political Science 38

Political Science Geography Social Science Community Engagement 38

Living Geography

APRIL 9, 2024

This was awarded an RGS-IBG Innovative Geography Teaching Grant in 2003-4. I also wrote an article for Teaching Geography about the project, which was published in the Autumn 2004 issue. I had a blog for my Presidential year called Quotidian Geographies, and there are over 500 books in my GeoLibrary.

Geography 78

Geography History Teaching 78

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. I had the blessing of teaching her daughter and collaborating with her.

EdTech 130

EdTech Junior High Critical Thinking Geography 130

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Instead of overwhelming them, I shifted to teaching them how to work efficiently, meet deadlines, and build confidence with every task. The goal wasn’t just to cover content, but to teach them how to learn and apply skills independently. It was simple but effective, reinforcing both geography and historical knowledge.

Primary Sources 126

Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

Learning Science 145

Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

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. He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major.

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

Students of History

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

They took a long while to create, but I now have packets for every unit in Civics/Government , World History , and US History. Each one features an introductory reading, standards-based Essential Questions to guide the unit, and then 9 pages dedicated to vocabulary, geography, people, timelines, key concepts, and image analysis.

Civics 52

Civics History Primary Sources Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

The curriculum was recently the subject of an experiment involving 684 students to see if this approach actually teaches kids the reading and writing skills and the content they need to succeed in school. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics.

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Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

Cervantes-González is now the program manager at the California Center on Teaching Careers, a public agency tasked with increasing the pool of qualified teacher candidates in the Golden State. Another 18 states and the District of Columbia have been struggling to find enough people who teach English as a second language.

Geography 125

Geography Tradition Public School Teaching 125

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in.

Charter School 142

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 142

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship.

Controversial Topics 120

Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan Middle School 120

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Our paths never crossed again, but her words have shaped my teaching and my brief time with her crystallized my understanding of the importance and necessity of identifying language acquisition and intellect as two distinctly separate realities for immigrant children. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching.

Geography 130

Geography World History Teaching Social Studies 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Baltimore City Public Schools, where about 80 percent of students are black, educators have long tried to incorporate African-American culture into their teaching. We never had the opportunity to celebrate the rich culture,” said Janise Lane, executive director of teaching and learning at Baltimore City Public Schools.

Local History 112

Local History Geography Education Policy Public School 112

Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Yesterday, I saw a message on Threads (I've stepped away from Twitter as you know) about delays to the GCSE Natural History being reported on Schoolsweek. I also have a blog which now has over 350 posts , in preparation for teaching and creating resources. I have a very large Google Drive folder already.

History 52

History Teaching 52

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

My Twitter notifications have been growing over the last few days because I was copied into a tweet from Jo Coles regarding challenges facing geography. What would you say have been the biggest challenges to geography’s place in education, or to geog’s curriculum, in the last 20 years? Many thanks. back in 1987. A few thoughts: 1.

Geography 64

Geography Government Teaching History 64

Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs. I also teach 65-minute classes.”

American History 76

American History Geography Local History History 76

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Adults in the audience responded with knowing and affirming sounds, signaling their recognition of the persistent apartheid geography that maintains racialized access to spaces and opportunities in their city. Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”

Pedagogy 99

Pedagogy Anthropology Private School Geography 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Regardless of geography, nearly all school districts face chronic challenges finding teachers for math, science, special education, foreign languages and bilingual education. This is especially true in lower-income urban districts, where academic challenges are the greatest and most persistent.

K-12 110

K-12 Geography High School Economics 110

Living Geography

JULY 19, 2024

From September, I am going to be reducing my teaching down to just four days a week and reducing my teaching commitments a little, to ease pressure, and free up time for some other varied consultancy work alongside my existing commitments. A day less on the commute will also be welcome.

Geography 75

Geography Library History Teaching 75

Living Geography

JULY 27, 2024

The blog I set up in January 2023 to prepare for the (hopefully before not too long) introduction of the GCSE Natural History has just passed a small milestone of 25000 page views. checks notes) everyone teaching GCSE Natural History. Check out the Facebook group too.

History 52

History Teaching 52

TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Building a toolbox of teaching strategies can help educators meet the needs of students and bring social studies to life. For example, collaborative activities in geography or history lessons can transform abstract concepts into tangible experiences, helping students retain information and stay engaged.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Professional Development Geography 52

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. Swan worked as a bank examiner for the FDIC before transitioning to teaching, which she pursued both domestically and internationally for about 10 years.

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Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 115