Bruce Lesh

"Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?"

Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12

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Produktbeschreibung

Every major measure of studentsâ historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach historyâ lecture and memorization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 192mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781571108128
• ISBN-10: 1571108122
• Artikelnr.: 33147295

Autorenporträt

Bruce Lesh has been a teacher and department chair for eighteen years at Franklin High School in Reisterstown, Maryland. A past president of the Maryland Council for the Social Studies and current vice-chair of the National Council for History Education, Bruce teaches American history and advanced placement U.S. politics and government. Additionally, he has published three units on teaching American history using primary sources and has contributed to the OAH Magazine of History and The History Teacher. In 2008 Bruce was recognized as the Precollegiate Teacher of the Year by the Organization of American Historians.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1: Reinventing My Classroom; Chapter 2: Introducing Historical Thinking; Chapter 3: Text, Subtext, and Context; Chapter 4: Using the Rail Strike of 1877 to Teach Chronological Thinking and Causality; Chapter 5:
Revolution in the Air
; Chapter 6: Continuity and Change over Time; Chapter 7: Long or Short?; Chapter 8: Trying on the Shoes of Historical Actors; Chapter 9:
How Am I Supposed to Do This Every Day?
; Chapter 10: Overcoming the Barrier to Change; Afterword