Thinking about History Teaching

Over the past few months, for the first time, I read Grant Wiggins' book Understanding by Design. Reading about understanding, obviou...

Some brief notes/ideas from my reading of How Students Learn. (ongoing) Students come to class with preconceptions about how the world ...

What do historians and poets have in common? Both create. Historians create accounts of past events and people. To do this, they must ma...

Let's start with an 'I remember' task. Pick a moment from your recent past. Think about that moment. What do you remember?...

Where do we begin? I think where and, more importantly, how we begin this course is key. In many ways, you should pay attention less to w...

Hello and welcome to Western Civilization. The purpose of this segment is to consider the following questions: What are some of the differen...

You may think of a fight or a debate when you see the word argument. And when you think of history class, with its powerpoints, videos, and ...