Join in the Discussion: Teaching Kids Who Find History Boring
Surveys routinely rank history at the bottom of students' favorite subjects. To those of us who teach history that's almost impossible to understand. How can history be boring? But many find that it is, impairing their ability to absorb the important lessons teachers teach. Advice on Teaching History By Robert Harris Advice to Teachers: Skip the Academic Theories and Teach Facts and Context By David Starkey What's Wrong with High School History Textbooks Classroom Lesson Plans: Helping Teachers Teach History How to Deal with Textbooks in the Classroom by James Loewen Getting Students to Like History Is Not Impossible By Cathy Gorn Rate the Losers: A Game to Teach Students Important Lessons of History By Robert Cook We Need to Develop New Ways to Teach Students History By Sam Wineburg Now that Clinton's History: Building a Course Around His Presidency By Lewis Gould So You Want to Try Writing an Online Course? By Kimberly J. Morse and Lewis L. Gould
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