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Abstract. This paper reports on an intervention study conducted with the A level students whom I teach at a sixth form college in the north-west of England. The study aimed to survey the students’ perceptions of the purposes of history education, and to broaden their understanding of the debate.
on dialogic history teaching, of which the focus on students as an important part of classroom dialogues is central. Keywords: designed meaning-making; dialogic history teaching; student–subject relationship; history as communication; history didactics Introduction A fundamental aim of history teaching is the development of students’ meaning-
subjects, a growing number of teachers specialize in teaching fewer subjects to higher numbers of students. We use administrative data from Indiana to estimate the effect of teacher specialization on teacher and school effectiveness in elementary schools. We find that teacher specialization leads to lower teaching effectiveness in
William Albert Wirt (January 21, 1874 – March 11, 1938) was a superintendent of schools in Gary, Indiana. Wirt developed the Gary Plan for the more efficient use of school facilities, a reform of the Progressive Movement that was widely adopted in over 200 cities by 1929. Wirt was born in Markis, Indiana.
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.
The Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) is a statewide professional association and labor union which represents more than 45,000 public school teachers and education support professionals, staff in state higher education institutions, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers. It is affiliated with the National ...
The History. Teachers' eligibility for social security coverage depends on what state and school district they work in. Some states provide coverage to teachers while others do not, and a small number of states have a mixed landscape where some districts in the state have coverage and others do not. Under the original Social Security Act of ...
become a central and pressing concern. Beyond the prevention of deadly violence, we know that teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn in a school climate characterized by disruption. A recently released national survey of middle and high school teachers and parents found almost universal support for the proposition that schools