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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. ERIC - Search Results

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   In this article, Andy Lawrence returns to arguments made in "Teaching History 153" about the importance of teaching young people about other modern genocides in addition to the Holocaust. Building on those arguments with his own rationale, Lawrence also acknowledges the constraints on curriculum time that compel all departments to make…

4. ERIC - ED592395 - Teaching What "Really" Happened: How to ...

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   Book features include: (1) An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education; (2) Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds; (3) Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct ...

5. 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).

6. CHALLENGES FACING BEGINNING HISTORY TEACHERS: AN ... - ed

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   teacher, and the degree to which new ideas overlap with and confirm pre-existing beliefs. Beginning Teachers and “Doing History” Beginning teachers face a series of sudden and dramatic changes as they make the transition from preservice student to first-year teacher. Research in general education documents the myriad challenges

7. Deepening What it Means to Read (and Write) Like a Historian ...

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   The teachers were asked to teach the units and take reflective notes on teaching and learning through the year. The rest of the team spent time videotaping, taking field notes, and documenting student experiences. The next part of this paper describes the READI learning goals for history, while a section later in the paper discusses the way in

8. EFFECTIVE TEACHING PRACTICES IN U.S. HISTORY - ed

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   In 2005-06, 69.6% of the U.S. History students in WCPSS scored proficient. The percentage of proficient students at the 18 WCPSS high schools ranged from 50.6% to 86.6%, with three schools below the state average of 56.8%. The average scale scores across schools ranged from 148.2 to 159.4.

9. ERIC - ED597667 - Teaching History, Learning Citizenship ...

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   Learn how to design history lessons that foster students' knowledge, skills, and dispositions for civic engagement. Each section of this practical resource introduces a key element of civic engagement, such as defending the rights of others, advocating for change, taking action when problems are observed, compromising to promote reform, and working with others to achieve common goals.