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de Chantal, Julie – History Teacher, 2021
Every semester, instructors of general education survey classes in history struggle with the same questions as they rewrite their syllabi: How can I get my students to engage more deeply into writing and research? How can I help them develop their problem solving and critical thinking skills? How can I make history more interesting to non-history…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Large Group Instruction
Sdunzik, Jennifer; Johnson, Chrystal S.; Kong, Ningning N. – History Teacher, 2021
United States history classrooms have the potential to simultaneously foster an understanding of students' cultures and experiences today in relation to the nation's history and develop critical thinking and technology literacy. Yet classroom materials and instructors tend to avoid, ignore, or misrepresent controversial topics such as race and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, History Instruction, Academic Achievement, African American History
Clabough, Jeremiah; Bickford, John H., III – History Teacher, 2020
There are significant apertures between the history told within historians' scholarship and teachers' curricular resources. The Civil Rights Movement (hereafter, CRM) of the 1950s and 1960s did not start with Rosa Parks' arrest in Montgomery, though it was a spark that inflamed a long-smoldering fire. Nor did it end with Dr. King's dream in…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Freedom, Activism, History Instruction
Schocker, Jessica B. – History Teacher, 2014
Research in history education has long suggested that teaching with primary source documents adds significant value to a student's learning experience, resulting in deeper levels of understanding beyond mere fact acquisition. Recent studies have specifically identified the value of using digitized primary sources. One category of primary source…
Descriptors: Females, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Primary Sources
Burkholder, Peter – History Teacher, 2014
This article seeks to promote contemplation, even debate, among history professors on how to balance factual content with historical thinking, with the latter term incorporating elements of critical thinking that are conspicuously absent in many college students. This study emphasizes the importance of thoughtful, deliberate course planning that…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, History Instruction, College Faculty, Course Content
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
Ormond, Barbara – History Teacher, 2011
Students of history are expected to be able to interpret visual images as a source of primary evidence for historical inquiry, yet history teachers may not always place sufficient emphasis on pedagogies that consistently and specifically target the skills of visual interpretation. Developing understanding of visual evidence is sometimes left to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Visual Aids, Primary Sources, Inquiry
Padurano, Dominique – History Teacher, 2011
A few days into the new school year, the author's female students invariably beg, plead, and cajole her in the hopes of watching Disney's "Pocahontas" in class. Toddlers when the film was released in 1995, doubtless they have seen it already dozens of times; more importantly, the author cringes at the ethnic and gender stereotypes sometimes…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, United States History, History Instruction, Ethnic Diversity
Seng, Loh Kah; Wei, Lee Si – History Teacher, 2010
To cultivate imagination and empathy among school students is a basic challenge for history teachers. This paper examines the relative roles of the teacher and student in nurturing imagination and empathy in the Singapore history classroom, specifically, through source-based studies. Both imagination and empathy are ways for students to think…
Descriptors: Imagination, Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Empathy
Peace, Roger – History Teacher, 2010
Critical thinking is defined more by what it is not than what it is. It is not rote memorization of dates, facts, and events. Instead, it involves delving into the meaning of historical developments--interpreting, comparing, theorizing, and evaluating--often with the aid of primary sources and multiple secondary sources. Students learn to ask…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, History Instruction, United States History, Foreign Policy
Browning, Judkin – History Teacher, 2009
Each fall semester, on the first day of class of his upper-level American Military History course, the author informs his students that a major part of the class consists of a wargame in which they will participate. In this article, the author describes briefly how the class will be divided into two teams, and that on a specific evening during the…
Descriptors: United States History, Military Science, Active Learning, Games
Schuster, Leslie A. – History Teacher, 2008
For the past twelve years, the author has been teaching a lower division introductory historical methods course that uses active learning to introduce students to the issues and practices of historical methods, the "how to" of historical inquiry, research and writing. In her methods course, she is working to take into account the perspectives and…
Descriptors: Working Class, Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Historiography
Hall, Timothy D.; Scott, Renay – History Teacher, 2007
The aim of the Central Michigan University Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Teaching American History (TAH) Project has been to forge a model of professional development that would not merely improve teachers' knowledge of events, people, and dates, but to go beyond this to strengthen the understanding of the nature and practice of historical thinking,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Primary Sources, United States History, Professional Development
Hayes, Dawn Marie – History Teacher, 2007
The Crusades are among the few medieval events with which most students have familiarity. However, during these days of heightened tensions in the Middle East, for many the Crusades have taken on an urgency as a distant historical phenomenon that speaks powerfully to present religious and political concerns. This helps explain why in 2005, two…
Descriptors: Historiography, Popular Culture, History Instruction, Medieval History
Eamon, Michael – History Teacher, 2006
The pedagogic value of using archival holdings for the teaching of history has long been appreciated. Using primary sources in the teaching of history transcends the rote learning of facts and figures. It encourages critical thinking skills, introducing students to issues of context, selection and bias, to the nature of collective memory and to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Historians
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