teaching

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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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• SOURCE: EdSurge
  11/4/19
  

  The Problem With How We Teach History

  by Rachel Burstein

  Students are still often building up to what they have been told is true, rather than finding truth on their own.

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• SOURCE: BU Today
  10/15/19
  

  Historian Andrew David Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry

  Andrew David pivots his lecture to teach about American presidential history as it unfolds.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  10/7/19
  

  American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners

  Dozens of historians will be recognized for their exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.

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• SOURCE: The Orange County Register
  9/19/19
  

  Eric Gonzaba Uses T-shirts, address books to explore LGBTQ history

  by Susan Gill Vardon

  Dr. Gonzaba is excited about finding ways to involve his students in a project he has been working on since 2014 — Wearing Gay History, an award-winning digital mapping project that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through T-shirts.

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• SOURCE: The Crimson
  9/19/19
  

  Responding to a ‘Crisis in the Humanities,’ Harvard History Dept. Rebrands

  Harvard's history department is rebranding to respond to national changes.