Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Professor John Moser, the seminar facilitator, asked the participants if there were aspects of the Cold War era they missed. Another lesson plan evoked a positive parent response.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. At the time, I was drowning in the demands of pandemic teaching, so when the scripted lesson plans for this program were emailed out, I clicked play on the automated curriculum and collected my students’ electronic worksheets in a daze.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said. All of us have a pit in our stomach right now,” said Steiner. “We

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Stamford, for instance, has created two types of seminars for the teachers in the Allegheny school districts he services — a general introduction, and a subject-specific one, where he brings together educators from the same discipline to share activities they use AI tools for. For example, the use of AI “can start with a two-week lesson plan.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

The experiences included an online seminar (which included a virtual tour of UGRR), a self-guided walking and driving tour of significant underground railroad landmarks in Niagara Falls, NY, and the task of creating inquiry lesson for UGRR with the intent of being posted on the heritage center’s website.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

At Marshall Pomeroy Elementary School in Milpitas, California, Deanna Sainten leads sixth graders in a Socratic seminar about A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park while students at other tables work on book reports or online lessons in several subjects during personalized-learning time. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 88

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

These structures exist in first-year writing seminars at many colleges, where students get dedicated tutoring and institutional resources to help them succeed. The current environment breeds exclusion and deception, which is commonplace in these classes even if you’ve turned a blind eye.

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