Teaching Resources & Strategies
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Missing Women
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
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
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. -
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. -
Public History in the Wild
Rebecca S. Wingo and Lindsey Passenger Wieck | Jul 26, 2021
When two historians swapped a syllabus over multiple semesters, it improved both the assignments and student experience.
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