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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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Today I observed Joe Manzo in Modern World History where he was covering the Columbian Exchange. A climate has been established here where teachers are provided with the tools, resources, support, and flexibility to take risks with technology in order to improve teaching and learning.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history. King, Ph.D.,

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History Teaching Sociology Oral History 104

Geography Education

MAY 14, 2024

“ GeoInquiries are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks. SOURCE: ESRI ESRI has produced GeoInquires for many diverse subjects , from American Literature to World History. Collections of 15–20 activities per topic enhance your curriculum throughout the year.”

Geography 130

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I wish the book dove a little deeper into the history of the Korean peninsula. I would not choose this title to read in my World History class, however, if the purpose of Ethnic Studies is to help students “see” themselves in the curriculum; this book delivers.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2011

How is your school transforming the teaching and learning process? It also enables students to take online polls. Each week in our newsletter section, Mrs. Levy brags about the superstars of that week who really stood out in class and they get a phone call home too. It is an exciting time to be at NMHS to witness this transformation.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. A unique and effective way teachers can do this is by giving opportunities for regulating emotions through proprioceptive input activities.

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Primary Sources American History World History Lesson Plan 52

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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Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

It may seem simple, but the ability to use printed, colored text and images when teaching social studies is incredibly impactful, she explains. Studies Weekly does an excellent job of incorporating age-appropriate text and engaging activities, and I loved exploring the online components that make it such a robust program.

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Primary Sources American History World History Social Studies 52

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Check this one out for AP World History Unit 6: Take a moment if you need to, but please, come back to me. Try making one of these for each unit you teach by uploading the state standards or the College Board Course and Exam Description (CED) for the unit, the textbook chapters, and relevant Youtube Videos.

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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. and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S. Victoria was in my U.S.

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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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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? Assess Creativity Ok, so how do you grade these creative assignments?

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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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Heritage Social Studies World History History 130

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. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. In the absence of detailed information about Asian American history at school, they’re teaching themselves through social media — such as videos on Tik Tok and infographics on Instagram — and their networks of friends.

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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 a thorough World History PBL packet that can be used in any unit. As I am sure you know, teaching social studies can feel like you're in a mine field and it is constantly changing.

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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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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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Tutoring Leadership Middle School World History 87

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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

For example, teachers will re-teach lessons to students who are falling behind. “We Miranda Virgil, a seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge School, teaches her students to use Google spreadsheets to track their progress toward meeting state standards. Teaching them how to organize and plan is such a beneficial skill to have.”.

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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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Advocacy K-12 Geography High School 93

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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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Teaching Reconstruction in US History? Here is a fascinating overview from the viewpoints of the many freed slaves who experienced it. Kidada Williams begins her book, "I Saw Death Coming" by reviewing developments immediately after the Civil War.

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History Teaching 130

World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Teaching Buddhism or imperialism? Here is an excellent Twitter thread by the art-crime professor, Erin Tompson, at John Jay College. Thompson notes that in 1903 the British led a force into Tibet and killed over 600 Tibetian soldiers with Maxim machine guns. The forces looted monasteries and then burned them to the ground.

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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. Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization? Settled life then led to cities, writing, and religion.

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Archaeology History Teaching 130

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

In his first year of teaching at Covina High School, in this building, Ryan Parry worked in “a horrible little classroom in the back of the campus that no one knew existed.” Students in a world history class at Northview High School spent an afternoon course comparing multiple definitions of terrorism and discussing common threads among them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time. Samantha Clarke teaches a sixth-grade combined math and science class at Capital City Public Charter School. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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High School Education Government Elementary School 111

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2017

History teacher, I could teach the content related to modern world history. For the past weeks, I have been taking AP and other tests. I know the material well — actually, beyond “well.” According to my U.S. That’s not uncommon for an autistic person, which I am.

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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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Civics History Primary Sources Geography 52

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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4QM Teaching

MAY 23, 2023

We’re not the sort of people who would misrepresent ourselves for money, but I do actually believe that learning history with the Four Question Method is civics education, and in this post I’ll explain why I think so. teaches students some important stories about human societies in the past. Each question is important to this endeavor.

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