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Blog post 5 I think that in chapter 3 Larson brings up some salient points about assessment that are good for soon-to-be teachers to keep in mind. While everyone is in agreement (or at least most educators) that we do too much standardized testing and focus too much on grades and points, it is importantContinue reading “Assessment”

Blog Post 4 While I found the Schmidt chapter on primary sources very informative (and full of great examples), I think it is important to remember that when teaching history, the selection of primary sources is just as important as remembering to include them. History as a discipline requires us to consolidate events and erasContinue reading “Response to Schmidt”

I liked Bain’s discussion about the seen and unseen aspects of history and how little unseen aspects are taught in public schools. For high schoolers, unseen aspects are difficult to work with because of the epistemic understanding required to move past the “fact-based suppositions of history”. I think we give our students and teachers tooContinue reading “Historiography in the high school”

Lee brings up important points about the “doing of history” especially in regard to evidence and accounts, and how historians collect and analyze these. In many ways, historical integrity mirrors journalistic integrity. The practice of history requires finding reliable primary sources and comparing them to others in an attempt to find out “the truth”. Obviously,Continue reading ““Doing History””

Blog post 1, Lemon I have always believed that the fundamental problem with public education is that in order to give students an adequate one and prepare them for the “real world” students need to start well before they realize the value in it. This means that as educators we should not be surprised toContinue reading “The motivation problem, a response to Wolpert-Gawron”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”