Bill Schechter

Bringing History Home (eBook, ePUB)

A Classroom Teacher's Quest to Make the Past Matter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475846652
• Artikelnr.: 56814754

Autorenporträt

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