TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Diverse Perspectives: HQIM represents diverse perspectives and experiences, providing tools for culturally responsive teaching. Create user-friendly organization and presentation of learning standards.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Lets Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game By Michelle M. Buehlmann , University of North Dakota, Grand Forks In Lets Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game , Dr. Buehlmann argues that government shutdowns are the crisis in a negotiation strategy, commonly called brinkmanship.

Government 58

Government Political Science Teaching Education 58

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

As a sector, we are being bombarded with reports of our failings in the teaching of maths, which leaves teachers and principals across the country feeling uncertain of what to do, and how to teach maths effectively, Rodgers wrote in a report to her school community at the end of the sabbatical. Not any more.

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Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 31, 2024

Thankfully, the branches of government all have essential yet distinct roles. When teaching the Judicial Branch, the perfect resources are ready! When teaching the Judicial Branch, this project will engage students as they critically analyze major Supreme Court cases. Teaching the Judicial Branch does not have to be stressful!

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many adults, as well as the vast majority of my high school-age peers, don’t seem to understand how government works and as a result don’t trust it. Related: COLUMN: Students want more civics education, but far too few schools teach it It is discouraging that my generation is faring worse than my parents’ generation did on civics literacy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Fuchs also notes that there is a growing body of high quality research on how to teach children with disabilities or who are at risk of being diagnosed with a disability. Lynn Newman, a researcher at SRI, a California-based research organization, has worked on multi-year studies of students with disabilities for the federal government.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

Wednesday: George Washington Takes Office We jumped into Lesson 2: George Washington Takes Office , diving into how Washington and Congress worked to strengthen the federal government. The establishment of key government structures. For example: A chain symbolizing the unification of state debts under the federal government.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Electoral College process respects the federal character of the United States, giving certain roles to the states and others to the federal government. Much of the discussion during the Constitutional Convention revolved around measures needed to balance the powers of the state and national governments. How does the process work?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. I teach from a mindset and lens that I want to make sure my students are becoming activists, and it’s not enough just talking about it,” the science and math teacher said. “

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism. But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.” I watch them spread their wings.”

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. Ray Tyler The post The Sand Creek Massacre appeared first on Teaching American History. The reality was very different.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

While she wasnt teaching during the pandemic, she saw friends and family struggle to replicate the way teachers motivate students to work. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

And that’s what we found,” said Brian Kisida, an assistant professor at Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, and the other co-author of the study. The post PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google. As a physics teacher, I am supposed to teach Newtons Laws of motion and how electricity works.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education. To help better preserve and share the teachings of his Native culture, he decided to try the latest in high tech tools — virtual reality. he wondered.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. They’re selling to the government, to the administration, to the district,” he points out. But one group is often left out of the design process: students.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

There is a really wonderful organization called the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization that offers tons of resources and holds lots of webinars and in-person events and trainings for teachers to teach philosophically. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Religion keeps coming up in this story, first as a means of teaching enslaved people to obey, then as part of the problem with literacy, when Black preachers were targeted for spreading knowledge to their flocks. Government doesnt rely upon the good intentions of individuals. Religion cant do that. It has never tried to do that.

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Education Government Public School History 75

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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Civics K-12 High School Middle School 74

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. The museum also offers a master of arts in Teaching Earth Sciences Residency , the program Jack participated in, which certifies Earth science teachers of grades 7-12. I found that I spent a lot more time teaching to the test than I’d like,” she said. “I

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Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then Breaking Down the Crisis We kept coming back to our main unit question , using it to frame our discussion on how tariffs and nullification created tension between the federal government and the states. To break things down, we used a Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then chart to map out key players and their perspectives.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. This world and character , inspired by the Afrofuturism movement , was dreamed up by archaeologists Amanda Logan and Katherine Grillo.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government and consequent prosperity. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

Therefore, I believe, the only way to combat racial violence is to teach young people to be “anti-racists,” which includes studying the history of U.S. Instead, it is an academic concept that emerged from studying how race and racism are embedded in legal systems and government policies. There is only one way: teaching anti-racism.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve cried after class,” the professor, Romi Hitchcock-Tinseth, said later, although she was teaching only her fourth session at the prison. Being the first program the federal government authorized to use Pell Grants for incarcerated men put a spotlight on Humboldt’s work. “That’s some raw stuff right here.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

I recently returned from an absolutely lovely trip to London and Windsor, where I presented at The Teaching and Learning Summit at Eton College, hosted by InnerDrive. The two end up sharing a flat in London and working to solve crimes for the British police and government, monarchs, aristocrats, and others. Dont just see, observe.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm of the Department of Education. One is evaluations of how the government spends its money.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. Although “Congress” alone is mentioned, the First Amendment applies to any agent of the national government, including the president. The Court’s decisions may be sidestepped or ignored.

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American History Government History Cultures 52

Passion for Social Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

So, it is essential to teach students about forming political individualities while respecting other viewpoints. government critically using their own minds! Government. Teaching about the U.S. government is tough with all the opinions students bring to the classroom! Add to cart Government Debates $ 6.00

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

Those programs primarily cater to individuals who lack expertise and experience in working with young children and want to upskill quickly, qualifying them for more senior and better-paying classroom teaching roles. The director-level apprenticeship program in Kentucky sought to include what was missing from that credential, Hagan notes.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Use Classroom Management Platforms and Other Tools to Overcome Barriers in Learning a Language contributed by Al Kingsley, CEO of NetSupport Teaching a language, whether for ESL students or those learning something new like French or Spanish requires largely the same teaching skills as any other subject. Challenge No.

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