Category Archives: Student Post

Reciprocal Teaching and Four Reads Strategy When Reading in the Classroom

Hi everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying the snow and day off this week! This week in class, we discussed and practiced the methods of reciprocal teaching and the four reads strategy, which both focus on helping students process and … Continue reading

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Deep Learning Tools in the Classroom

Hello everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying your week and the beautiful weather we’ve had the past few days! For my blog post today, I’ve been thinking about some of the content from Chapter 3 of Visible Learning for Social … Continue reading

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Do Maps Tell Us Stories About Places and Spaces?

Hi everyone! This week’s class session on the importance of geography was truly enlightening for me. Prior to last night, when I thought of the term “geography”, the environment and land structures was all that came to mind. However, now … Continue reading

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Getting The Most Out of School Trips

Hello Class!  After our trip on the walking tour, I was filled with many ideas on what to create my blog post on. I kept coming back to an idea I shared during dinner about going on field trips as … Continue reading

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Teaching Hard History

Hi everyone! Today’s class session has definitely got me thinking more about how to go about teaching hard history in my own future classroom. Honestly, teaching history has been the topic I am most worried about teaching my future students, … Continue reading

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Teaching and Tackling Hard History

Hello everyone! After this class, I definitely feel more prepared to take on hard history! However, there are still a lot of things to think about before creating those interesting lesson plans. My blog post will not be filled with … Continue reading

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Detailed Lesson Planning: Effective or not? Should teachers be required to turn their plans in for approval?

Hello Class!  This week’s class session was both informative and interesting. I’m not sure about all of you, but I thought watching a teacher conduct a lesson was extremely helpful as it provided me with various ideas and strategies. Adapting … Continue reading

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Segregation, A Thing of the Past?

Hello class! This weeks class session was especially interesting to me, due to the many different and extremely rare primary sources we were allowed to look at. Once the vastness of the archives were explained to us I knew that … Continue reading

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Primary Sources: Privacy and Integrity

Salut mes amis, Last class was enlightening for me in more ways than one. I had no idea that Richmond had a rare book/archives collection (an extensive one at that!) It was incredible to take a peek into the lives … Continue reading

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Does your knowledge match up?

Hey guys, happy Thursday! I have been doing some hard reflection since the last class, and my reflection hovers around what we don’t learn in school. I remember vividly the paragraph on Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycotts and how … Continue reading

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