Teaching students chronologically is something teachers think is the obvious choice for their students. What teachers should really do is teach in themes. When you teach based off of going through a timeline, students tend to be disconnected and feel like they are just memorizing facts for no purpose. When you teach in themes, students […]
Again, this week, we revisit the question, “what is the best way to teach history?” Before we discussed the importance of stepping away from lecture-based teaching and utilizing more project-based learning. Instead of teaching students, we put learning into their hands and allow them to investigate and ask questions. A lot of my experience with […]
Globalizing the Curriculum & Potpourri (Teaching Empathy, Revisiting Lesson Ideas, Building an Inquiry Classroom) Teaching history is a complicated task if you are trying to get the most information out in a single block of time and have students memorize many names dates and facts without meaning or purpose behind them. Students don’t learn history […]
The first thing you have to do when designing your curriculum is decided thing the theme you’re going to structure it off of. Two of the major structure types are chronological and thematic. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. It really depends on the class and how you plan to use them. Social Studies classes […]
Teaching history chronologically seems like the most logical way to do it. If you want to get through the most information possible while teaching, then sure, teaching history in a chronological manner makes sense. Although this doesn’t actually teach anything to the students. When teachers do this, it ends up being a meaningless bunch of […]
Imagine you are a student in an American History class. You expect that the curriculum just revolves around what war America is going to be involved in next. To every student, it just seems that history is just a buildup to whatever war is next. This is why many teachers are beginning to teach in […]
While it’s no good to just bombard students with an endless stream of names and dates, that doesn’t mean the only viable teaching strategy is to do away with chronology. It can have its benefits as well. A big factor that helps in chronological teaching is to call back to previously covered events that had […]
Teaching our students digital literacy skills is crucial to help them become informed citizens. In order to do this, teachers must approach the topic of misinformation with some caution. In today’s world, we are constantly engaging with digital media with varying levels of credibility. Teachers should promote an active discussion in the classroom and build […]
20 ideas for exit tickets in the classroom – Ditch That Textbook Exit tickets are an important aspect of every classroom environment. Some people may not even realize that they are implementing an exit ticket in their class. Exit tickets are so important because of all that they can provide, not only for the students […]
Half of the news and information that we take in on a daily basis comes in the form of reading. Whether that is seeing text on a TikTok video, reading a Tweet online, or reading through highly advertised journal articles through businesses like Buzzfeed or The Onion, we are constantly bombarded with flashy titles and […]
Ever since the internet has become public for people it has become very important to how we live today. However, that doesn’t mean the internet has been perfect for humans. That is because of the amount of “misinformation, fake news, and rank propaganda masquerading as dispassionate analysis.” While researching a topic it is rather easy […]
Digital tools are a very important aspect of every single modern classroom this much is obvious. To not use the massive amounts of resources we have at our disposal would be a pointless exercise. But using these things correctly is a struggle on its own. If used incorrectly or if a poor tool is chosen […]
These days, my news feed is more and more clouded with headlines trying to get across a message. The messages push POVs instead of providing the raw facts and data. It can be easy for a young child or teenager to be swayed one way or another by different news sources, as it happens to […]
Technology’s advancements over the past half-century have been incredible and revolutionary in how we can connect to information. However, with that advancement has come a problem, a problem that seems to be more relevant today than ever before: the problem of fake news and inaccurate sources. This is especially hard for educators to deal with […]
