Bringing History Home focuses on how to make the teaching of high school history both an intellectual challenge and an experiential adventure. The book focuses on mobilizing pedagogy and curriculum through a variety of activities and resources-music, poetry, field trips, simulations, crafts, current news and civics-to deepen students' involvement with the subject matter. History classes should be memorable. Bringing History Home provides support and inspiration to education majors, newly minted teachers, and seasoned professionals.
Bringing History Home focuses on how to make the teaching of high school history both an intellectual challenge and an experiential adventure. The book focuses on mobilizing pedagogy and curriculum through a variety of activities and resources-music, poetry, field trips, simulations, crafts, current news and civics-to deepen students' involvement with the subject matter. History classes should be memorable. Bringing History Home provides support and inspiration to education majors, newly minted teachers, and seasoned professionals.
Bill Schechter, a proud graduate of New York City's PS 95 and De Witt Clinton H.S., received an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and did graduate work at Harvard, Berkeley, and Goddard College. He worked as a public school teacher in Massachusetts for 35 years, later serving as a practicum supervisor for the Tufts University and UMass-Boston graduate education programs.
Inhaltsangabe
Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue / It was only the first day of school Chapter 1: Beginnings / What helps make a history class compelling? Chapter 2: Let There Be Music / Singing our way through trials and tribulations Chapter 3: Theater in the Square / The power of make-believe in the classroom Chapter 4: Field Trips on My Mind / Taking it on the road Chapter 5: History Begins at Home / Is it knocking on your door? Interlude / A Morning Request Chapter 6: Taking History into the Hallways / Seed-time of an epiphany Chapter 7: Joining Hands to Minds / Building a cabin for a courtyard Chapter 8: Awakening the Muse / Here once the embattled farmers stood Chapter 9: Rummaging Through the Attic Trunk / A few other odds & ends Chapter 10: Getting Caught in History s Web / Students, your family s saga is before you Chapter 11: History in the Headlines / Why newspapers are a teacher s best friend Chapter 12: Welcome to the Classroom World / Please take a seat Chapter 13: Bias Buzzing Around My Head/ The `no-see-ums of the history class Chapter 14: Charting A Course/ One way to develop history units Chapter 15: Not Just Civics Class, But A Civic Life/ Democracy makes its demands Epilogue/ Actually, there is no ending Coda / To Be A Teacher About the Author
Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue / It was only the first day of school Chapter 1: Beginnings / What helps make a history class compelling? Chapter 2: Let There Be Music / Singing our way through trials and tribulations Chapter 3: Theater in the Square / The power of make-believe in the classroom Chapter 4: Field Trips on My Mind / Taking it on the road Chapter 5: History Begins at Home / Is it knocking on your door? Interlude / A Morning Request Chapter 6: Taking History into the Hallways / Seed-time of an epiphany Chapter 7: Joining Hands to Minds / Building a cabin for a courtyard Chapter 8: Awakening the Muse / Here once the embattled farmers stood Chapter 9: Rummaging Through the Attic Trunk / A few other odds & ends Chapter 10: Getting Caught in History s Web / Students, your family s saga is before you Chapter 11: History in the Headlines / Why newspapers are a teacher s best friend Chapter 12: Welcome to the Classroom World / Please take a seat Chapter 13: Bias Buzzing Around My Head/ The `no-see-ums of the history class Chapter 14: Charting A Course/ One way to develop history units Chapter 15: Not Just Civics Class, But A Civic Life/ Democracy makes its demands Epilogue/ Actually, there is no ending Coda / To Be A Teacher About the Author
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