• Missing Women

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  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

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  Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Nov 10, 2021

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom argues for the value of assigning historical fiction alongside more traditional nonfiction readings.
• The Purpose of Purposeful Ignorance

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  R. Raoul Meyer | Nov 3, 2021

  History starts with questions, and behind genuine questions is a humble acknowledgment of not knowing.
• Teach Your Family

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  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...

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• 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.
• Teaching Content, Teaching Skills

  Katharina Matro | Aug 17, 2021

  Teaching history at the high school level does not need to default to teaching skills alone, as Katharina Matro found...
• Motivate, Situate, Evidence, Illustrate

  Joseph D. Martin | Aug 16, 2021

  Educators might better serve students by dragging the complexities of the primary–secondary source divide into the light earlier in their education, and more often.

 

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