Teaching Resources & Strategies
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AHA22 Online
AHA Online, Annual Meeting, Features
AHA Staff | Mar 15, 2022
Read about a selection of sessions that took place during AHA22 Online in late February. -
How Well Do You Know Your Students?
Perspectives Daily
Trinidad Gonzales | Feb 2, 2022
Asking students about their lives can help instructors better accommodate their circumstances. -
Missing Women
Features
Bridget Riley | Dec 8, 2021
One teacher assigned her seventh-grade students to create podcasts to make up for the lack of women's history in their textbook. -
Gaps, Plots, and Narration
Features
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Nov 10, 2021
Jeffrey Wasserstrom argues for the value of assigning historical fiction alongside more traditional nonfiction readings.
Most Recent
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The Purpose of Purposeful Ignorance
R. Raoul Meyer | Nov 3, 2021
History starts with questions, and behind genuine questions is a humble acknowledgment of not knowing. -
Teach Your Family
Rachel Mesch, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, and Annette Joseph-Gabriel | Oct 14, 2021
A pandemic-inspired twist on class presentations, Teach Your Family asks students to think not only about conveying information but also... -
Playing with the Past
Patrick Rael | Oct 13, 2021
Board games encourage history students to imagine changing historical outcomes and discuss counterfactuality and contingency, while covering the entire range of Bloom's taxonomy of learning. -
Evaluating without Grading
Luke Clossey and Esther Souman | Sep 14, 2021
Mastering a skill is at the heart of the specifications grading system. -
The Professor as a Primary Source
Julianne Johnson | Sep 9, 2021
In telling students about her experiences on September 11, 2001, Julianne Johnson makes herself the primary source—and demonstrates the interplay of history, testimony, and memory.
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