Category: Teaching Ideas

I'm upset. We had a faculty meeting in my school today, where the principal nicely asked for feedback as to how we're doing. And teachers explained how they were working from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m....

With the advent of remote teaching came stress and a steep learning curve. A positive byproduct of the pandemic is some great new ways to engage students. One activity format that I have embraced...

The year is 2020; teaching will never, ever be the same. Teachers were charged with completely changing the way they taught, literally overnight. We had to keep teaching while we learned -- who was...

I use quotes in my classes all the time. One quote can be a warm-up or exit ticket or a group of quotes can be the meat of the lesson. Quotes help to bring "old dead guys" to life and humanize them....

They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words. I say a quote is worth 1,000 pictures. They are a great tool for the classroom. An appropriate quote can reflect an event on famous person's character...

Perhaps you've heard that there are three sides to every story: yours, his and the truth that lies somewhere in the middle. Our job as history teachers should be to expose students to opposing...