High school history teacher

Happy August! We got home from our six day road trip last night, and now it’s time for me to buckle down and start thinking about BACK TO SCHOOL. Our first teacher work day is August 17th, so I’m less than two weeks away now… In honor of that, I thought I’d bring back “Teaching Tuesday”...Read More »

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Today, on the blog, I am sharing 15 of my favorite Amazon finds that I use in my classroom.

Teaching high school history is intimidating. We worry about doing too little and failing our kids. We worry about doing too much and burning out our teens.

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Earlier this summer my husband dismantled a headboard we built about 8 years ago. I was tired of it and had moved it from our bedroom to the garage earlier in the year. He decided to recycle the plywood to build a podium for his classroom so he could have a place to lay out notes and books used during a classroom lecture. Fast forward to Aug and the podium still needed to be finished to be ready for the new school year. First we thought of maps to cover the entire thing. So, last week we…

Part of the humanist theory is teaching the process historians use in history. These ideals on the board will be used to teach students how to think like a historian.