teaching

Why Burned-Out Teachers are Heading for the Door

America's teachers are a diverse group, and the sources of their frustration likewise. But it's clear that a flood of educators out of the profession is a risk for America's schools as the pandemic is being followed by political interference with curriculum and book selection. 

Should You Cold-Call on Your Students?

Psychology researchers suggest that the stress of being called on at random can fall more heavily on female students. Are there ways to build participation and accountability into classes without stressing students out? 

If it Wasn't Clear, COVID Shows Teachers Don't Get "Summers Off"

by Christine A. Ogrem

School authorities have long sought to control teachers' use of summer time, while hiding behind the fiction of a 9-month employment contract. It's time to empower teachers to control that time for themselves and their schools. 

Those Who Can Do: Rewriting the History of Literary Studies from Inside the Classroom

by Dennis M. Hogan

A new history of literature pedagogy reconsiders teaching as a site of intellectual ferment and makes important claims for the value of the academic humanities. 

Remote Reflections: Twice the Work and Half the Fun

by Walter L. Buenger

Online teaching is indeed twice the work, especially for a first-timer.

What Do Final Exams Mean During a Pandemic?

History professors Kevin Gannon and Christopher Jones are among the faculty members who share ways to make final exams or projects meaningful learning experiences at the end of a difficult semester.

Video Killed the Teaching Star: Remote Learning and the Death of Charisma

by Jonathan Zimmerman

The history of experiments in teaching students through television should tell us remote learning won't replace in-person classes. 

Updated 4/13: Historians Talk Teaching Online

Historians share tips on how to move classes online (for emergency reasons or otherwise).

For the love of history, let’s teach it better.

by Laura Redford

Let’s show students that studying the past is far more than memorizing. It can be thrilling, and can help them make more sense of the world in which they live.  

How Black Lives Matter Is Changing What Students Learn During Black History Month

What started locally in Seattle in 2016, inspired by a federal investigation into the higher rate of suspensions of black students compared to their white peers, has grown into a nationwide organizing effort.

The challenge of teaching black history: sifting truth, myth, bias

Featuring Morehouse College history professor Frederick Knight. 

Amanda Seligman: Growing Into Teaching Career Diversity for Historians

by Amanda Seligman

Teaching Career Diversity undid my ancient assumption that a PhD in the humanities should lead to a professorship. 

What Happens When You Give Students Control of the Syllabus?

Featuring Leslie Lindenauer, a history professor at Western Connecticut State University.

Rethinking How We Train Historians

by Rita Chin

What if we designed a graduate course that accounted for the conditions of the job market and history as a discipline? What if we taught students how to undertake the work of historical scholarship in a collaborative manner that more closely resembles the way labor is organized in today’s society, both inside and outside of academia?

How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History

Feauting quotes from historian Greg Grandin. 

The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis: Building Bridges Between Historians and K-12 History Teachers

by Sari Beth Rosenberg

Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association. 

Tweeting from the Past: History Course Uses Social Media to Bring Research to Life

Associate Professor of History Autumn Quezada-Grant brings history into the modern age with a course assignment to create social media accounts for famous figures.

Losing Sight of Jefferson and Falling into Plato

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Socratic Styled Teaching in Twenty-First Century American Classrooms

Using Digital History in the Classroom

New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.

Black Perspectives Publishes Online Forum: "Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora"

by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten

An introduction to the online forum and a list of the articles published as part of it so far.