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. Elementary education has traditionally prioritized English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often sidelining social studies.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Primary Sources Civics Critical Thinking 52

TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!

Geography 59

Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

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. In my role as Co-Chair of HTEN (the History Teacher Educators Network) I have heard this story time and time again.

Geography 85

Geography History Teaching Tradition 85

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

A traditional four-year degree isn’t a financially feasible path to teaching for some, Lopez adds, while the state’s history of focusing on English-only education has shrunk the pool of Callifornians who are proficient in Spanish. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators.

Geography 125

Geography Tradition Public School Teaching 125

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

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. The lottery losers attended a variety of other schools, from traditional public schools to private schools to other charter schools. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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Charter School Geography Public School Private School 142

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational.

EdTech 130

EdTech Junior High Critical Thinking Geography 130

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

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week, I took a hard look at my teaching approach and realized I had been falling into a pattern of overloading my lessons with too much traditional content. This analysis helped students build context and draw connections between geography and colonization strategies. What geographic trait did these colonies have in common?

Geography 122

Geography Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 122

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. How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education?

Social Studies 115

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 115

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Seventh-graders, along with science teacher Susan Dunning and geography teacher Megan Fuga, repeatedly gave the CMU students feedback on what worked and what didn’t. Dunning followed up with a traditional class discussion in which students were eager to share what they learned.

K-12 110

K-12 Geography World History Library 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. It’s a Mississippi tradition where politicians come to make speeches.

Education 130

Education High School Government Economics 130

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the book’s interdisciplinary approach, integrating traditional anthropological perspectives with innovative methods and theories. This approach is a fresh take that shifts our gaze to moments of potential and demonstrates how positive multispecies relationships can thrive.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Research 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. I prefer the traditional system.”. In the end, the school switched back to a more traditional grading system.

High School 72

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 72

Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

The traditional content-heavy curriculum, obsessed with low-level content mastery and memorization, no longer fits the bill for our rapidly evolving society. For instance, in a history class, instead of merely memorizing dates and events, students could analyze historical patterns and their impact on current societal issues.

Education 58

Education Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Geography 58

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. The tests measure student proficiency in reading and math as well as subject areas like history and biology for high school students. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

Private School 111

Private School Elementary School Public School High School 111

TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, collaborative activities in geography or history lessons can transform abstract concepts into tangible experiences, helping students retain information and stay engaged. The goal is to use these tools to enhance traditional learning, making lessons more engaging without sacrificing educational depth.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Professional Development Geography 52

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Ruskin at Walkley is still one of my favourite websites.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

Living Geography

MAY 5, 2024

My sculptures, while often inspired by aspects of real people, are rarely portraits and not motivated by status as in much traditional figurative art. I am interested in what it is to be human and inspired by the felt sense of shared humanity.

History 52

History Humanities Tradition 52

Ben Newmark

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

But there are issues with the word ‘misconception’ – a misconception of misconceptions if you like, and it’s a particular problem in history. We might expect science and physical geography to vulnerable to misconceptions because they deal with things students may have wondered or asked about before. How do we head them off?

Geography 40

Geography History Lesson Plan Government 40

Anthropology News

APRIL 24, 2025

This local geography of caste is more visible to me because I, too, belong to an allegedly lower caste community. The struggle for access to water is a key issue in Dalit history as water distribution has been historically maligned by caste-based discrimination. Even among Dalits, Doms are located at the bottom of the caste order.

Anthropology 64

Anthropology Economics Geography Cultures 64

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

With diverse perspectives, backgrounds, geographies, identities and areas of expertise, these writers offered a wide range of important stories — each one unique in its own way. I’ve struggled to balance representing the history and culture of my school with my desire to support our ongoing and ever-more-pressing need to adapt.

Education 108

Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 108

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

All the traditional method does is sort students. Critics of the traditional teaching model of presenting information and then giving a test to determine how much of it a student retains point to the lack of actionable information offered by a single cumulative grade. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something.

Geography 100

Geography High School Charter School Cultures 100

Ben Newmark

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Hereditary status and privilege were no better than what we have now and would do great harm if we tried to reintroduce it, especially now the world is more secular than it was with religion less able to offer the traditional counter-narrative that regardless of rank all would be judged as equals by God after death.

Tradition 108

Tradition Geography History Humanities 108

Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. When in doubt, send a scout Al-Idrisi also consulted older geographic compendia, notably Ptolemy’s Geography , as well as Islamic works. His other honorific, “father of geography,” is a shared prize at best. Got a strange map?

Heritage 52

Heritage Geography Archiving History 52

Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Contemporary situation: There was a death and rebirth of urban anthropology in the 1990s and 2000s through the addition of spatial theories drawn from geography and a fuller understanding of the political economy of place.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Economics Geography Cultures 130

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While an individual or group may think that they are an island, the geography teacher in me can see that their island, like everyone else’s, is in the middle of concentric circles of scale. Their personal bubble is surrounded by the local scale, then the regional and national scales and finally being encompassed by the global scale.

Human Rights 40

Human Rights Geography Humanities Controversial Topics 40

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

” This study not only refines our understanding of Fulani history but also challenges long-standing assumptions about African population genetics. Some communities are entirely nomadic, while others have settled into farming villages, adopting new traditions while retaining core elements of their pastoralist identity. Diallo, M.

History 112

History Ancestry Geography K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English. Student work hung up in a classroom at Washington Elementary School celebrates Mexican food and traditions. Viviana Valerio, a kindergarten teacher, said that history made bilingual education an intimidating proposition.

Elementary School 117

Elementary School Education K-12 History 117

Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. In ignoring this history, she says, They made [a] mockery of us as happy natives. military mission that drops toys and supplies throughout Micronesia.

Heritage 107

Heritage Archiving History Geography 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

Humanities 145

Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145