Category: discussion
-
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),…
-
Getting to Know You- Digitally!
The return to school in September 2020 will be unique to say the least. For most of us in the United States, the way school will look in the fall is unpredictable. Will we be returning full-time? Will we be doing a hybrid version of school where some students are online and others are in…
-
Whose Independence?
I spent quite a lot of time thinking about independence this year. It isn’t that I hadn’t considered the Declaration of Independence through the lens of equality and inequality before, but a recent PD session at Academy for Teachers helped me think about independence in a historical way that I’d not really considered. The idea…
-
Invisible Founders Part 2, A Birthday Cake for George Washington
Wow! The Birthday Cake for George Washington lesson has really taken off! Today, students held a “silent discussion” about the book and the NPR article published about the book that students read the night before (you can read the article here). To hold a silent discussion, I posted three pieces of chart paper around the…
-
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,…