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2. Engaging Students in Learning History. - ed

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1073994.pdf

   ­ the teachers made it interesting. These people often described their history learning with the word engaging. Here is the reason I studied history and why I became a History teacher. In grade four an austere woman teacher, who slapped with a ruler any unsuspecting child who looked

3. HISTORY EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1343013.pdf

   A fundamental aim of history teaching is the development of students’ meaning-making processes related to aspects of history. Opening up this relationship between students and history subject concerns explicit and well-communicated pedagogical strategies and decisions made by the history teacher. However, teachers often

4. How to Assess Student Performance in History - ed

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED513873.pdf

   Figuring out what really is important for students to know and be able to do in history. Teaching the skills of “doing history” in a world of testing that often seems to value only factual knowledge. Identifying and using assessments that provide teachers with better information than only multiple-choice exams.

5. Reading, Thinking, and Writing about History: Teaching ...

   eric.ed.gov/?id=ED602398

   The book features: (1) Integrates literacy and inquiry with core U.S. history topics; (2) Emphasizes argumentative writing, a key requirement of the Common Core; (3) Offers explicit guidance for instruction with classroom-ready materials; (4) Provides primary sources for differentiated instruction; (5) Explains a curriculum appropriate for ...

6. ERIC - ED292749 - Teaching History in the Elementary School ...

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   Chapters 3 through 8 are lesson plans for kindergarten through grade 6 based on creative ideas and resources for teaching history in the standard curriculum. Each of these chapters comprises: (1) goals for history; (2) ways to improve the existing curriculum with history; and (3) sample lessons with objectives, teaching procedures, and resources.

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

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ718724.pdf

   Research in general education documents the myriad challenges that many beginning teachers may face, including the following: heavy teaching loads, multiple preparations, the least “desirable” classes, extracurricular duties, few instructional resources, little collegial support, discipline issues, professional isolation, inadequate ...

8. Teaching and Learning History in Elementary Schools.

   eric.ed.gov/?id=ED417108

   The remainder of the book presents and discusses research on the teaching and learning of U.S. history in fifth grade. Included are detailed case studies of U.S. history units taught by three contrasting fifth-grade teachers. The contrasts of the teachers are found in their goal priorities and approaches to curriculum and instruction.

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

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1134663.pdf

   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.