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2. Teachinghistory.org - Wikipedia

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   Educational. Focus. Best practices, K-12 education, History of the United States. Location. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Website. www .teachinghistory .org. Teachinghistory.org, also known as the National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC), is a website that provides educational resources for the study of U.S. history.

3. List of Teachers' Days - Wikipedia

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   For example, Argentina has commemorated Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 's death on 11 September as Teachers' Day since 1915. [ 1] In India, the birthday of the second president Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 5 September, is celebrated as Teacher's Day since 1962. [ 2] Teacher Appreciation Week decoration at a school in Florida.

4. Pedagogical Content Knowledge for World History Teachers

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   World History Teachers Bridging the Gap between Knowing and Teaching By Lauren McarTHur Harris and roBerT B. Bain We are conducting studies to determine what knowledge world history teachers need and how they can use it to plan instruction. Here, we report on a small but in-depth study designed to examine how four pre-service and six in-service ...

5. The Road to Ambitious Teaching:Creating Big Idea Units in ...

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   Of the two full-length treatments of big idea teaching, the first is Sam Wineburg and Suzanne Wilson’s (1991) comparative case study of two high school history teachers. In presenting a rich analysis of one of the teachers of the study, Wineburg and Wilson describe the big idea questions that drive this teacher’s instruction.

6. History teaching as a designed meaning-making process ...

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   transformation, history teachers draw on a wide range of pedagogical practices and tools. Typically, history teaching comprises a variety of activities, such as whole-class dialogues, lecturing, small-group projects, student group work, oral presentations, documentary work, excursions, scenario-based role playing and games. Based on

7. 55 Creative Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas to Say 'Thank You'

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   Skip the apples and give your teacher one of these gifts instead. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...

8. ERIC - ED609130 - Teaching World History Thematically ...

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   This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with a more thoughtful and compelling approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives today, and meets social studies 3C standards and most state standards (grades 6-12).

9. ERIC - EJ837193 - History Circles: The Doing of Teaching ...

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   The History Circle requires pre-service teachers to use primary and secondary sources to engage students in historical thinking. In this essay, the author outlines the processes she has used as a methods professor to implement the History Circle in the preparation of middle school and high school history teachers. (Contains 17 notes.)