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.

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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. There's always an eye-catching image as well as a set of standards-based Essential Questions to guide your teaching of the unit. If I'm ever out sick, students can just work on their packets.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. A core part of that is preparing students to write out in the real world. This isn’t a novel idea.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. Each US History unit also include thorough 9-page worksheets packets for every unit in the curriculum.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. I have these available for my entire curricula in World and US History. This approach allows students to learn by actively participating in the process of discovering new knowledge and solving real-world problems.

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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.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

MAY 24, 2022

Whatever version you decide to use, each one comes with a title page and four rule cards covering the following: Be Prepared Be Punctual Be Present Be Polite Around the World Skyline Posters If you are a world history or social studies teacher, these world skyline posters can help transform your walls or bulletin boards!

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

As a history teacher, I’ve found it an effective teaching-tool. The other day I forgot to make copies of a source analysis activity for my AP World History students. They’ve simply harnessed the power of AI to make your life easier. I’ve been using Edpuzzle for about a decade. Fortunately, I had a PDF of the activity.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Indeed, we now teach the Silk Road as an east-west exchange over which goods like silk traveled from China to Rome. Should we change how we teach the Silk Roads? " He notes that the term “silk road” was a Western invention popularized by a Prussian geographer in 1877 and did not appear in English until 1938.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

One of my favorite sites for teaching medieval cities like Mali, Calicut, and Quanzhou is called Sites of Encounter in the Medieval World. It comes from The University of California at Davis and includes lessons with primary sources, maps, charts, and graphs.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

History books teach us that civilization arose with the Neolithic Revolution when hunter-gatherers first settled down because of the discovery of agriculture. Here's a clip from the History Channel about the discovery of Göbekli Tepe. Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization?

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4QM Teaching

MAY 23, 2023

As history / social studies people we’re often in contact with civic education advocates and organizations, and as a small organization interested in growing we’re sometimes advised to make a pitch for ourselves as civics educators. teaches students some important stories about human societies in the past.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

Most of us who work in schools are motivated at least in part by a desire to make the world better, and it’s nice to know that our work actually makes a difference in what young people know and can do. And many elementary schools have basically not been teaching history for some time now. But that’s a different blog post.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Teaching Buddhism or imperialism? You can read more about this expedition and the looting here and at Jstor here and at History Extra here. Here is an excellent Twitter thread by the art-crime professor, Erin Tompson, at John Jay College. The forces looted monasteries and then burned them to the ground.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 9, 2023

I had to teach it about the various Depth of Knowledge Levels, but that was easy. Here are sample commands: Command: DOK Level 1 Explanation + Generate 3 DOK Level 1 Multiple Choice Questions appropriate for sophomore World History students studying Classical Greece. I just had to copy and paste their definitions. Constantly.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you are teaching high school, this likely means that you can broach most news-worthy topics. Additionally, look for events that connect to the themes and concepts you're teaching in class. However, that presents a great opportunity to teach it and connect to your curriculum! 4) Use a variety of teaching strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Why don’t people who live there, teach there? And of the positions that were filled, many were staffed by people who do not have traditional training or are not considered qualified to work in the subject area they are teaching. It’s hard to convince outsiders to come teach in places like Campo. The pay is low.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 7, 2024

Teaching students effective note taking strategies is a vital component of building life-long, independent learners. Cornell notes look like this: I like them because they’re easy to teach and students can easily make them for any subject using notebook paper. They decided to watch a World History Crash Course film on Ancient Egypt.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

Hochman and Natalie Wexler provides a comprehensive approach to teaching writing. ” This sentence can teach students about descriptive language and personification. Have them write descriptive sentences in science, complete sentences in history, and use sentence frames in math explanations. Because, But, So Sentence Stems.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Pick Content-Focused Classroom Décor Wall Maps – Hang the largest-size wall maps you can fit, depending on what you teach. This world map is 46x80in , perfect for a giant wall space, or this smaller one is 24x36in if that’s all your room. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Image credit: [link] A Biology Teacher’s Thoughts on Critical Literacy by Lynne Torpie Science teachers can tend to be myopic, focusing on acquiring content detail and teaching the steps of the scientific method instead of fostering the investigative, critical thinking and written communication skills that embody real-world scientific endeavors.

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Rosie the History Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2019

You might have seen all of the memes about the full moon, Friday the 13th, and the week before winter break all happening in one big whirlwind – and I hope you are making it through this eventful season of teaching! My 9th grade US History class is finishing up the World War I unit and they have learned so much!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

Its goal is to teach students the skills they will need to launch an effort this fall using schools as a lever for slowing greenhouse gas emissions and accelerating the green energy transition. For 10 days this August, some 150 high schoolers from across the U.S. It’s difficult to acknowledge, until you see it,” she said.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Coincidentally they are all coming out of my History Department. Here is a quick rundown: On Thursday, October 21, I observed Nicolette Perna’s American History 1 class where the lesson focused on the major patriots during the Revolutionary War. educational technology Innovation mobile learning devices TSETC'

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Leah Cleary

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I discuss some of these in my Teaching Gen Z series.) They’re what students should know by the end of the school year in a perfect world. But we don’t teach in a perfect world. We teach in a world where students have varying backgrounds and ability levels. The standards are an ideal.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In an ongoing series called "Teaching Revolutions ," you can read essays that offer new ways to frame the way you teach revolutions. In another essay called " You Can't Teach the age of Revolutions without the Black Intellectual Tradition, Robert D. Another example includes book recommendations about the history of slavery.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Perna’s US History I course worked on developing a colonial road trip project this month. Students were to develop a trip that someone could take today to explore colonial history through one of the three colonial regions. Students enjoyed the project and made colonial history come alive!

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Leah Cleary

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Teachers want to be given the freedom to teach as they see fit (We are professionals, right? I was assigning SAQs this way for AP World History. I’m saying we need to get creative with alternatives.” ” I think that’s fair, but I also understand the other side. Trust our judgment.). for each unit.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Well, this is my version of a birth story – the birth of my teaching career. My Job Hunt I graduated with my teaching degree in December 2013 and landed my dream job at a children’s museum working as their education director/exhibit designer/volunteer coordinator. This is how I felt about being hired to teach history!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. She turns on gospel music — a ritual she’s had since she began teaching 28 years ago — and sanitizes all surfaces. Related: Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your house that’s burned, it’s everyone’s’.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Here are some excellent resources for teaching the Silk Roads , especially to younger students. They come from Professor Peter Frankopan and are based on an illustrated adaptation of his best-selling book by the same name.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

As I unlock my door, they ask, “So what are we teaching today?”. and World History classes. There is a large and longstanding body of research measuring the positive impact of peers teaching peers. But studies have also found that the benefit is mutual — that simply preparing to teach others deepens one’s own knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

That suggestion is based on data collected from millions of other consumers and used to spot trends (a reader who likes history books might also be interested in historical fiction). For example, teachers will re-teach lessons to students who are falling behind. “We She thought her students would be excited.

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