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Aguilera, Jocelyn Isabel – History Teacher, 2023
Examining the political activism of high school students provides a window to fully understand the rich history and resistance of young people of color from South Central Los Angeles who blazed the trail in many crucial battles during the civil rights era. Researching John C. Fremont High School's history shows that the high school reflects a…
Descriptors: Activism, High School Students, Females, Minority Groups
Cox, Darrin; Bauer-Leffler, Simon – History Teacher, 2023
Living history, and/or reenactment, brings the lives and experiences of a past age into the modern era to provide a contextualized interpretation of long-gone cultures. Academic literature suggests that presentations by properly trained living historians at historical sites and museums are connected to more positive visitor experience and…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Elementary School Students, High School Students, Knowledge Level
Kautz, Matthew B.; Blanco, M. Yianella – History Teacher, 2022
In this article, the authors trace their writing instruction through the 2016-2018 school years. They begin by describing how they framed the foundations of historical work and the importance of this framing for the later production of historical narratives. Then, the authors discuss how they integrated traditional literacy instruction with…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historians, Writing Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Marino, Michael P. – History Teacher, 2022
Historical thinking, a term that encompasses a diverse set of definitions and competencies, calls on students to replicate the work and cognitive processes of historians by analyzing and interpreting evidence and making logical conclusions based on this evidence. Given this emphasis on discipline-specific skills, "sources" (especially…
Descriptors: History, Thinking Skills, Historians, Primary Sources
Monte-Sano, Chauncey; Thomson, Sarah – History Teacher, 2022
Analytical reading and writing are embedded in a disciplinary approach to history instruction and present opportunities to extend students' literacy practices. U.S. educators and researchers have come to rely on the Document-Based Question (DBQ) to assess and develop students' historical knowledge and argument writing. However, this task has been…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Persuasive Discourse
Reid, Stephanie F.; Kessner, Taylor M.; Harris, Lauren McArthur; Benkert, Volker; Bruner, Jason – History Teacher, 2021
In this article, the authors detail a curriculum unit used by Ms. Brown and a second English Language Arts (ELA) teacher, Ms. Smith, with their high school students. The unit centered on a comparative genocide framework developed by the Comparative Genocide Project at Arizona State University. The framework detailed seven key themes common across…
Descriptors: Death, War, English Instruction, Language Arts
Scarlett, Sarah Fayen; Lafreniere, Don; Trepal, Daniel J.; Arnold, John D. M.; Xie, Yichun – History Teacher, 2019
The investigation of time is at the heart of historians' pursuits. Many also recognize the importance of space, since the chronology of action and ideas necessarily occurs in the physical world. The conscious integration of time and space has found growing favor among scholars recently as the "spatial turn" has influenced research across…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Geographic Information Systems, Community Involvement
King, Matt; Hoogland, Tim; Hootman, Jennifer; Schoenborn, Mary E.; Skupeko, Lynn – History Teacher, 2018
Over the last twenty-five years, the Minnesota Historical Society, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and Minitex have developed a partnership centered on creating pathways to higher education by engaging local middle school and high school students in immersive programs at academic libraries. These activities vary in scope and content, but…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Access to Education, Higher Education, History
Boerman-Cornell, William – History Teacher, 2015
Graphic novels (book-length works of fiction or non-fiction that use the conventions of a comic book to tell a story or convey information) can embed images within that primary flow. The text boxes and recurring images of the single graphic novel flow can incorporate maps, photographs, timelines, primary sources, and images within the panel…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, History Instruction, Instructional Materials
Sampsell-Willmann, Kate – History Teacher, 2014
Engaging in student-centered learning with primary sources has become a priority in the teaching of history in classrooms throughout the educational spectrum. Approaching photographic evidence in the history classroom through a contextualized and systematic method of analysis is one way of involving students actively in their own education while…
Descriptors: Photography, United States History, Primary Sources, Student Centered Learning
Carpenter, Brian; Earhart, Matt; Achugar, Mariana – History Teacher, 2014
Developing disciplinary literacy in history requires that classrooms become an environment where students can engage in discursive practices typical of the profession. Disciplinary literacy refers to the specialized ways of reading and writing used in history to construct historical arguments and ways of reasoning. Learning history includes using…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Content Area Reading, Literacy, Primary Sources
Suh, Yonghee; Grant, Leslie W. – History Teacher, 2014
Assessing students' historical understanding has been a long-standing challenge in history education. One of the widely used tools for accomplishing this task is the large-scale standardized test, the results of which are used as an indicator of student knowledge and skills in the social sciences/history. At the national level, the National…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Level
Mitchell, Melissa Buelow – History Teacher, 2011
The Integrative Model of instruction engages students in critical thinking while providing history teachers with an instructional strategy other than a traditional lecture format. The Integrative Model was used to develop an interactive lesson titled "The Formation of American Political Parties: Federalist versus Anti-federalist." This article…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Politics, Teaching Models, Secondary School Teachers
Jones, Kathryn; Daisey, Peggy – History Teacher, 2011
This article presents a story about eighty-six ninth-grade World History and Geography students who authored a "how-to" book, while pretending that they were experts who lived in the past and had to explain how to do something relating to that time period. These students attended a large high school in the Midwest; the school's…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Geography Instruction, World History, Content Area Writing
Martin, Daisy; Wineburg, Sam – History Teacher, 2008
Teaching a way of thinking requires making thinking visible. Educators need to pull back the curtains from historical cognition to show students not only what historians think, but "how" they think. Given that many students believe that history is a single story to be committed to memory and that texts speak for themselves, teaching historical…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Historians, Content Area Reading, Reading Processes
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