Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Teaching is intense, vulnerable work. Every teacher shows up with their own histories and insecurities and flaws. We can look at student data and try new instructional strategies all day long, but until we learn to navigate all of these complex feelings, the work of improving our teaching will always be limited at best.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 1, 2025

In honor of womens history month, we bring you a reading selection that highlights the upheaval American society experienced in the 1920s as regards gender roles. I never learned from either parent whether I was male or female, or that there was such a division in the human species. Read more Want more womens history materials?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

The human skeleton has long been a resource for science, offering insights into disease, migration, and evolution. Credit: Boris Hamer from Pexels A Legacy of Exploitation For centuries, human remains have been collected, often without consent, to serve scientific and medical purposes.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within anthropology. Even now, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History alone has amassed the remains of more than 33,000 individuals.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

The two needs are related, for there is simply not enough time for those who teach multiple classes, often in multiple disciplines, to stay on top of the flood of specialized writing, to be confident that they are teaching the best that scholars have learned.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. 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’. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

history, Oklahoma History, U.S./Virginia Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. History for 8 years, a wealth of experience that informs the way he structures his programming at NCHE. It’s about understanding humanity.” He taught U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Students shared emergent understandings of U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The emphasis on a human-centric approach underscores the commitment to cultivating a balanced perspective on AI integration. Educators are encouraged to view AI not merely as a technological advancement but as a tool to enhance and augment the human experience. EdSurge: How have you incorporated the teaching of AI in the classroom?

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2022

In order to create the systemic changes required to realize racial justice, we must transform ourselves into students and recommit to learning how our shared history influences modern practices. My organization, Facing History and Ourselves, and many others have been doing this necessary work.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primary sources to share real accounts. The primary source.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. I was one of the youngest students in the class, and we learned everything about human behavior. There should be nothing partisan about teaching young people the truth. There should be nothing partisan about teaching young people the truth.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. A large study on teaching science to middle school students was published afterwards and it adds more nuance to this debate between critical thinking skills and content knowledge.

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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. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. But I did enjoy teaching. I was always interested in history.

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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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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. But if there’s one job that can’t be taken over by artificial intelligence, it’s teaching. The future will leave room for human teachers.

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Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 110

Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Instead of that essay, I reflect here on the problematic my response in this anecdote highlights: balancing the patterned resonance of history and the total singularity of each life, in attempts to name and redress harm done at Mother and Baby Institutions (M&BIs) and in ethnographic work. Good material for an essay like this one.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History. The expression of that principle, in our Declaration of Independence, was most happy and fortunate.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Though the past year has put a spotlight on the limits and possibilities of using technology for teaching and learning, we began exploring the utility of using virtual reality as a medium for Holocaust education before the pandemic reshaped the educational landscape. One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

History to Spanish immersion, more students means more funding. Nationally, there aren’t enough bilingual educators , or educators certified to teach English as a second language (ESL). Prior to that, she was the health and human sciences educator at Purdue Extension office in Clinton County, Indiana.

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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. “ When I first got there.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. While she wasnt teaching during the pandemic, she saw friends and family struggle to replicate the way teachers motivate students to work. In Zoom class, youre just a little blot on the screen. How would you grade a child who is just sitting behind a computer?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Back when my mom attended Westwood in the early 80s, students made the typical walk from class to class, learning from one teacher in math and another for English or history or science. (My The model, known as team teaching, isn’t new. Now, team teaching has expanded nationally, and particularly in the American West.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

When we abruptly transitioned online in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, I thought the classes I teach at my flagship research university would resume in person in a matter of weeks — and for sure by the fall semester. My living room and personal MacBook Pro were no longer adequate. What did you buy, and how’d it work out?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This approach goes beyond simply teaching students how to use AI tools; it aims to develop a comprehensive set of skills that will enable students to understand, critically evaluate and ethically engage with AI technologies. At Gwinnett, we have a history of preparing students for their futures in innovative and meaningful ways.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. In an AI-driven future, our greatest strength will not be IQ or EQ but RQ Relational Intelligence the capacity to connect, understand and thrive through human relationships.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

Even more importantly, the program gave him the confidence that he could succeed, despite his history. It’s, like, ‘Oh my goodness, they’re actually human beings.’ ” Elizabeth Swanson, a Babson College faculty member who leads a program to help prisoners develop business ideas, on how students respond when they get to know the inmates.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Human Relations Committee Forms to Plan Integration In Belmont, a small town just west across the Catawba River from Charlotte, school integration presented fewer logistical problems, because segregated schools for black and white children were situated within a mile of each other. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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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 post AI vs. humans: Who comes out ahead? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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