Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 14, 2025

Thats why teaching the Legislative Branch and its importance to students is so crucial. Despite how important understanding the Legislative Branch is however, teaching it to students can be quite challenging. Enjoy the benefits of using tried and tested secrets from a teacher with over 13 years experience teaching the course.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. The challenge with teaching these skills, however, is time. In the middle is teaching a lesson however you might normally do it.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

I teach third grade, when young readers typically transition from developing readers to fluent ones, and it’s at this stage that they’re ready to begin to analyze texts on a deeper level. Whether you teach ELA or another content area, chances are your students read in your class. What I mean is I’m looking for annotations.

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TeachThought

JULY 18, 2024

A few thoughts– Teaching is a lot work. It depends on factors, including building and climate, mindset, relationships with parents, student engagement, and classroom management, the function of various standards in your teaching and curriculum, the quality of the PLCs—if they are used in your building—and so on.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many even created special offices or programs in the hopes of teaching students how to talk with people they may disagree with. Resident advisors can host fun events, like pumpkin carving, but they should also be responsible for teaching incoming students how to have constructive conversations, Shaffer says.

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Teaching AI theory, for example, is well beyond these ideas. How you teach something depends, obviously, on what you’re teaching. Let’s take a look.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 15, 2024

With the growing accessibility of generative AIs, haptic technologies and open-source software, this Teaching Anthropology Special Issue asks; ‘how is anthropological knowledge production changing in this fast growing socio-technological era?’ What is the ‘anthropological text’ in light of generative AI?

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Anthropology Teaching 317

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fear of retribution for teaching the truth has created such a chilling effect that an astounding two-thirds of U.S. As we fight the current wave of attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for.

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Teaching History Education 116

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

How this does or doesn’t work varies wildly on everything from the age of the students to your own personality and teaching style and so on. Tone In Teaching And Interactions With Students: 20 Words That Change How Students Think Might This one was one of the most useful words I use as a teacher. To have the desired effect (i.e.,

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Thrive in Grade Five

APRIL 13, 2025

If you need help teaching social studies in 30 minutes or less daily, you’ve come to the right place. Of course, having such limited time to teach social studies is not ideal, but sometimes, this is a teacher’s reality. Example: Let’s say you are teaching about Jamestown Settlement.

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Social Studies Teaching History 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in 1995. Early in my teaching career, we focused on teaching students how to use a dataset to create a bar graph or scatter plot. But it’s practically absent from the way our kids learn.

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K-12 Teaching Social Studies High School 139

ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

He also talks about his previous project in education, a free online course he co-teaches called “ Learning How to Learn, ” which is one of the most popular courses ever made, with more than 4 million students signed up over the past 10 years.

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Humanities Teaching Tutoring Tradition 136

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Others say learning facts is unimportant in the age of Google where we can instantly look anything up, and that the focus should be on teaching skills.

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Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 136

TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2025

Teaching Strategies For Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs by TeachThought Staff Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, developed by psychologist Abraham Maslow in […] Source

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

As Weimer (2015) suggests, learner-centered teaching approaches, which prioritize student voice and active participation, can significantly enhance the impact of student discourse. Learner-centered teaching: Five key changes to practice. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. National Academies Press.

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Critical Thinking Cultures Teaching Research 429

TeachThought

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

by Terry Heick Reflection is a fundamental tenet of learning; it is also, therefore, a fundamental part of teaching. Reflection in teaching might look like this: A teacher pausing at the end of a lesson to jot down a quick note: What went well? The Benefits of Reflection The benefits of reflective teaching ripple outward.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of spending seven to twelve hours per week creating instructional content, access to high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) allows teachers to focus on what truly matters: teaching and engaging students in meaningful, impactful lessons. Materials help students engage in learning opportunities like scholars in social studies.

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Civics Teaching Civic Engagement Social Studies 98

C3 Teachers

MAY 5, 2025

with Tara DeVay In late summer 2015, as I prepared for my third-year teaching eighth-grade social studies in rural Western New York, I balanced many of the challenges that young teachers do: coaching, building curriculum, and searching for more meaningful ways to teach content. Teaching hard history doesnt have to be isolating.

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Teaching Museum Primary Sources Professional Development 73

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fear of retribution for teaching the truth has created such a chilling effect that an astounding two-thirds of U.S. As we fight the current wave of attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for.

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Teaching History Education 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres no getting around it it takes work to teach students how to write. Tim Donahue teaches high school English at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut. And it takes work for them to do it. It involves knowing which ideas to reject and which to expand upon. It is making the cake not from the box, but from scratch.

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Teaching High School Education 102

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

Listen to my interview with Jen Serravallo ( transcript ): Sponsored by Wix Tomorrow and Brisk Teaching This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Jen Serravallo In her newest book, Teaching Reading Across the Day , she gives us nine research-backed lesson structures for explicitly teaching reading across all content areas.

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Pedagogy Digital Resources Lesson Plan Teaching 278

NCHE

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

But at the end of the year, Valencia felt that teaching was what she should be doing with her life. “It It made history a part of my life, not just, ‘I’m teaching this subject and I’m going home and doing this and creating this lesson plan.’ And it was just September!” It wasn’t even like, ‘This is supposed to be my job.’

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Museum Lesson Plan History High School 317

NCHE

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jen Jacobs on Multidimensionality, Memorability, and Making History Come Alive A member of our EPiC grant in Michigan, Jen Jacobs, shared her journey into teaching and the impact that journey has left on her since. Sometimes teaching isnt a first job or even a first calling. What better way to spend my life than doing this?

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Civics History Middle School Humanities 246

Zinn Education Project

MAY 23, 2025

The Zinn Education Project, in conjunction with more than 80 prominent racial and social justice organizations , will hold a national press call on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, to discuss the growing chorus of diverse voices speaking out against the state and federal attack on students freedom to learn and educators freedom to teach.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Use strategies that support integrity, maximize learning, and minimize cheating As I argue in my book AI with Intention , if we want students to use AI tools with integrity, we must teach them how. Teach strategies to use AI appropriately so students can use these tools as more than a mere shortcut. Teach students how to cite sources.

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Tutoring Pedagogy Teaching Library 215

Cult of Pedagogy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

You were teaching right along, getting things done, and then it started to crumble. And the message were sending when were in this teaching presence is Im serious, and Im credible, and I mean business, and were going to be learning. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? “Its not about having a sour face on.

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Classroom Management Pedagogy Library Teaching 265

Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Listen to my interview with Blake Harvard ( transcript ): Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and Brisk Teaching This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. Sometimes its the smallest details that separate effective teaching from teaching that misses the mark. Today we’re going to look at three of these.

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Pedagogy Psychology Library Teaching 248

TeachThought

MARCH 26, 2025

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort that arises when an individual encounters a conflict between what they believe and how they behave, or between two competing beliefs.

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Teaching Psychology Critical Thinking 190

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it.

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Psychology Pedagogy Teaching Library 186

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It is not a substitute for teaching and leading but an on-demand support that can help save time and maximize your impact. As you can see, AI can be an invaluable tool for teachers, administrators, and coaches if and only if used after the gaps in practice have been identified.

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Leadership Humanities High School Research 433

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 2, 2025

It should be a tool that empowers students to explore, create, and connect, not simply a replacement for traditional teaching methods. Technology plays a vital role in future-proofing learning, but its use must be purposeful and driven by the learner. Ask yourself, how can students use technology to learn in ways that they couldnt without it?

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Critical Thinking Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Tradition 388

NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As educators, we apply that lens to our teaching of history whose stories are getting lost and how can we remedy that? NCHE will remain a place of support for you as you seek to teach accurate, inclusive, complex histories. You know your students and your particular teaching situation best. Whose stories add depth and nuance?

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Primary Sources History Education History Library 230

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself. In 2000, the National Reading Panel, a group of experts assembled by Congress to explore the scientific basis for teaching reading, identified reading fluency as essential for teaching reading.

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Teaching Public School Research Education 139

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Forcing Reading, Writing, and Listening into One Space If we aren’t careful, we can easily slip into teaching routines that force students to multitask, making them choose between reading, writing, or listening at the expense of one of the other things. One common scenario where this happens is giving lectures.

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Pedagogy Library Teaching Research 255

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases.

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Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Teaching Research 540

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. And if you have new lessons to teach, you may struggle to help them catch up. Its important to note here that you dont need to transform your entire classroom or stop teaching the way youre used to.

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Pedagogy Teaching Library Classroom Management 177

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 8, 2025

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Alpaca and Brisk Teaching Every January for the last ten years, we have chosen a small collection of tech tools we think are worth checking out. That will be the same this year. Deck.Toys deck.toys On this platform, teachers create interactive lessons called Decks.

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