Author: James P. Stobaugh Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group ISBN: 0890516448 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
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Respected Christian educator, Dr. James Stobaugh, offers an entire year of high school American history curriculum in an easy to teach and comprehensive volume. American History: Observations & Assessments from Early Settlement to Today employs clear objectives and challenging assignments for the tenth grade student. From before the birth of our republic to the principles of liberty, American history trends, philosophies, and events are thoroughly explored. The following components are covered for the student:Critical thinkingExaminations of historical theories, terms, and conceptsHistory makers who changed the course of AmericaOverviews and insights into world views. Students will complete this course knowing the Christian influences that created a beacon of hope and opportunity that still draws millions to the United States of America. This 384-page student resource should be used in conjunction with the American History: Observations & Assessments from Early Settlement to Today for the Teacher. British History and World History are included in this comprehensive high school history curriculum for 10th, 11th, and 12th grades offered by Dr. James Stobaugh and Master Books.
Author: James W. Loewen Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 0807759481 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.
Author: Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Publisher: Crossway ISBN: 1433580039 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 190
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An Effective, Holistic Guide for Teaching Children in Any Educational Setting Every parent and teacher wants to give his or her children the best education possible. They hope that the teaching they provide is a joyful adventure, a celebration of life, and preparation for living. But sadly, most education today falls short of this goal. For the Children's Sake imagines what education can be based on a Christian understanding of the meaning of life and what it means to be human—a child, a parent, a teacher. The central ideas have been proven over many years and in almost every kind of educational situation, including ideas that author Susan Schaeffer Macaulay and her husband, Ranald, have implemented in their own family and school experience. Includes a foreword by daughter and educator Fiona Fletcher. Simple and Practical: This user-friendly guide helps educators build a stable, enriching, and intellectually stimulating environment for children and also includes a list of additional resources Immersive Teaching: Shows parents and teachers how children's learning experiences can be extended to every aspect of life Proven Methodology: Used in school settings for 14 years, these easily applicable ideas will benefit parents and teachers in homeschooling, public school, or private school
Author: David Gerwin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135147396 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
Presenting U.S. history as contested interpretations of compelling problems, this text offers a clear set of principles and strategies, together with case studies and "Mystery Packets" of documentary materials from key periods in American history, that teachers can use with their students to promote and sustain problem-finding and problem-solving in history and social studies classrooms. Structured to encourage new attitudes toward history as hands-on inquiry, conflicting interpretation, and myriad uncertainties, the whole point is to create a user-friendly way of teaching history "as it really is" ─ with all its problems, issues, unknowns, and value clashes. Students and teachers are invited to think anew as active participants in learning history rather than as passive sponges soaking up pre-arranged and often misrepresented people and events. New in the Second Edition: New chapters on Moundbuilders, and the Origins of Slavery; expanded Gulf of Tonkin chapter now covering the Vietnam and Iraq wars; teaching tips in this edition draw on years of teacher experience in using mysteries in their classrooms.
Author: Rachel G. Ragland Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135858632 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 428
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The premise of the Teaching American History (TAH) project—a discretionary grant program funded under the U.S. Department of Education’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act— is that in order to teach history better, teachers need to know more history. Unique among professional development programs in emphasizing specific content to be taught over a particular pedagogical approach, TAH grants assist schools in implementing scientifically-based research methods for improving the quality of instruction, professional development, and teacher education in American history. Illustrating the diversity of these programs as they have been implemented in local education agencies throughout the nation, this collection of essays and research reports from TAH participants provides models for historians, teachers, teacher educators, and others interested in the teaching and learning of American History, and presents examples of lessons learned from a cross-section of TAH projects. Each chapter presents a narrative of innovation, documenting collaboration between classroom, community, and the academy that gives immediate and obvious relevance to the teaching and learning process of American history. By sharing these narratives, this book expands the impact of emerging practices from individual TAH projects to reach a larger audience across the nation.
Author: James W. Loewen Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 162097455X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 491
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"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." —Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be "objective." What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should—and could—be taught to American students.
Author: Diana Turk Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135184267 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 232
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Teaching U.S. History is a must read for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically about how to teach U.S. history and make historical discussions come alive in our schools' classrooms.
Author: Fay R. Hansen Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 588
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This unique information source and time saver for us history and social studies teachers is packed with over 325 useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for students from the fifth through the twelfth grades. For quick access and easy use, all of these lists are organized into six parts, grouped by topic and sequenced chronologically within each section, and printed in a big spiral bound format that can be photocopied as many times as required for individual or group instruction. Here are just a few examples o the interesting and challenging information you'll find to enrich and enhance your American history and social studies classes: Beginnings features 43 lists covering early populations and explorer, natural history, the colonies, Puritanism, the American Revolution, expansion, the Constitution and early political documents. List start with Pre-Columbian Population Groups of North America, move on to Chronology of the 1600s and 1700s and Colonies and Founders, and conclude with Major Battles in the Revolutionary War and The War of 1812. Political history includes 54 lists focusing on the presidency, cabinet departments, federal agencies, electoral politics, Congress and congressional leaders, the judiciary, Supreme Court cases, the balance of powers and state government. Examples include Presidential Elections, Important Supreme Court Cases, Steps in the Legislative Processes, and Chronology of the Watergate Crisis. Diplomacy and military history provides 66 lists featuring foreign relations, treaties, slavery and the Civil War, 19th century conflicts, World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars, the United Nations, the armed forces, major weapons and military costs. Lists range from American Nobel Peace Prize Winners and United Nations Secretaries General to Spies and Espionage and Chronology of the Development of the Atomic Bomb. Economic history presents 57 lists that track industrial and technological development, the Great Depression, the New Deal, the public debt and deficits, economic growth, inflation, employment, the work force, trade unions, business leaders, and corporation. Examples include Major Industrial and Technological Inventions and Achievements, Ten Largest Banks, Wealthiest Americans, Women in the Work Force, and Ten Industries and Occupations with Fastest Employment Growth, 1996-2006. Social history offers 71 lists covering population trends, urbanization, income trends, poverty, public health, education, crime rates and prison system, ethnic groups, the civil rights movement, the women's right movement, American Indian populations, notable families and religious life. The lists range from Urban Populations in 1800 and Most Popular Given Names, 1880-1997 to Major Events in the Civil Rights Movement and American Indian Tribes With Populations Greater Than 30,000. Intellectual and cultural history gives you 42 lists focusing on American writers, visual arts, academic disciplines, performing arts, radio and television, popular music and public libraries. For example, lists such as Major Scientific Discoveries and Important American Architects are balanced with Best Sellers in the 1960s, to offer a glimpse of the culture of that decade, and Protest Songs of the 1960s and 1970s and Most Played U.S. Jukebox Singles of All Times, to spark interest and add fun. In short, American History Teacher's Book of Lists places in your hands and unparalleled source of good examples, teachable content, teaching ideas and activities that might otherwise take many years and much effort to acquire.