Monthly Archives: January 2022
How would you improve student learning and skills with primary sources?
Hello classmates! As I reflect on activities that we have completed in class, my mind ponders on what the most effective ways of assessing the proficiency of student primary source analysis skills. As a class we chose objects of our … Continue reading
Teaching Primary Sources: The Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University
Hi all, As I’ve been working on my bibliography for this week’s digital toolbox assignment, I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenge of working with primary sources in the K-6 classroom — where to find them, how to adapt … Continue reading
Why Is It So Hard to Pick Those Five Words??
There is so much content to teach but so little time. As we did the “George Washington, Spymaster” activity in class, I had difficulty picking only five words that I THOUGHT should be taught to a fourth-grade class. As Professor … Continue reading
Are we all biased?
“If you are human, you are biased.” Howard J. Ross Who writes the textbooks? Who edits the trade books? Who are the “fact checkers” for educational materials that teachers use to teach history? How do we know who we can … Continue reading
Answers to Your Questions – Week 2
Here are answers to some of the questions you asked this week. If your questions were related, I addressed them together in my response. With the rise in popularity of graphic novels, have any textbooks changed over to that format … Continue reading
Teaching About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This episode of the Teaching Hard History Podcast may be of interest to you. Teaching the Movement’s Most Iconic Figure – w/ Charles McKinney “Throughout this season, we’ve been confronting the popular but misleading “Master Narrative,” which revolves around a … Continue reading
Thinking About Historical Markers
I read this article recently and have been thinking about it in the context of the reckoning around Monument Ave and Confederate monuments in general. Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers Across the country, historical markers have in … Continue reading
Where are the women?
This article in the Washington Post has me thinking. Opinion: In my advanced high school history textbook, it’s as if women didn’t exist “Once, after second-grade history class, I came home and jokingly asked, “So did women just not exist?” … Continue reading