Category: discourse
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Distance Learning Hack: Breakout groups
If you teach like me, you love it when students are engaged. I found that when students began learning in Google Meet, many of them suddenly got shy! I’m not sure what it is about the screen (though I’m sure there are plenty of psychology and sociology articles that could tell me if I looked),…
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Successful Thinking
Successful practitioners in history are able to make connections between events, analyze people and their actions, judge the ethical implications of historical incidents, and follow the nuances and ulterior motives in the relationships between historical figures and their constituents. Thinking in my classroom is loud. Though I have a semblance of order in my room,…