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SOURCE: New York Times
3/13/2023
Why Burned-Out Teachers are Heading for the Door
America's teachers are a diverse group, and the sources of their frustration likewise. But it's clear that a flood of educators out of the profession is a risk for America's schools as the pandemic is being followed by political interference with curriculum and book selection.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/12/2022
Should You Cold-Call on Your Students?
Psychology researchers suggest that the stress of being called on at random can fall more heavily on female students. Are there ways to build participation and accountability into classes without stressing students out?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/7/2021
If it Wasn't Clear, COVID Shows Teachers Don't Get "Summers Off"
by Christine A. Ogrem
School authorities have long sought to control teachers' use of summer time, while hiding behind the fiction of a 9-month employment contract. It's time to empower teachers to control that time for themselves and their schools.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
Those Who Can Do: Rewriting the History of Literary Studies from Inside the Classroom
by Dennis M. Hogan
A new history of literature pedagogy reconsiders teaching as a site of intellectual ferment and makes important claims for the value of the academic humanities.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
9/14/2020
Remote Reflections: Twice the Work and Half the Fun
by Walter L. Buenger
Online teaching is indeed twice the work, especially for a first-timer.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/27/2020
What Do Final Exams Mean During a Pandemic?
History professors Kevin Gannon and Christopher Jones are among the faculty members who share ways to make final exams or projects meaningful learning experiences at the end of a difficult semester.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
4/24/2020
Video Killed the Teaching Star: Remote Learning and the Death of Charisma
by Jonathan Zimmerman
The history of experiments in teaching students through television should tell us remote learning won't replace in-person classes.
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3/12/2020
Updated 4/13: Historians Talk Teaching Online
Historians share tips on how to move classes online (for emergency reasons or otherwise).
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3/1/2020
For the love of history, let’s teach it better.
by Laura Redford
Let’s show students that studying the past is far more than memorizing. It can be thrilling, and can help them make more sense of the world in which they live.
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SOURCE: Time
1/31/20
How Black Lives Matter Is Changing What Students Learn During Black History Month
What started locally in Seattle in 2016, inspired by a federal investigation into the higher rate of suspensions of black students compared to their white peers, has grown into a nationwide organizing effort.
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SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2/1/20
The challenge of teaching black history: sifting truth, myth, bias
Featuring Morehouse College history professor Frederick Knight.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
1/29/20
Amanda Seligman: Growing Into Teaching Career Diversity for Historians
by Amanda Seligman
Teaching Career Diversity undid my ancient assumption that a PhD in the humanities should lead to a professorship.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/23/20
What Happens When You Give Students Control of the Syllabus?
Featuring Leslie Lindenauer, a history professor at Western Connecticut State University.
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
1/21/20
Rethinking How We Train Historians
by Rita Chin
What if we designed a graduate course that accounted for the conditions of the job market and history as a discipline? What if we taught students how to undertake the work of historical scholarship in a collaborative manner that more closely resembles the way labor is organized in today’s society, both inside and outside of academia?
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SOURCE: Yes! Magazine
1/9/20
How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History
Feauting quotes from historian Greg Grandin.
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SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
1/5/20
The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis: Building Bridges Between Historians and K-12 History Teachers
by Sari Beth Rosenberg
Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association.
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SOURCE: Roger Williams University News
Tweeting from the Past: History Course Uses Social Media to Bring Research to Life
Associate Professor of History Autumn Quezada-Grant brings history into the modern age with a course assignment to create social media accounts for famous figures.
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12/1/2019
Losing Sight of Jefferson and Falling into Plato
by M. Andrew Holowchak
Socratic Styled Teaching in Twenty-First Century American Classrooms
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
11/14/19
Using Digital History in the Classroom
New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
11/11/19
Black Perspectives Publishes Online Forum: "Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora"
by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten
An introduction to the online forum and a list of the articles published as part of it so far.
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