teaching social studies Archives - Page 10 of 10

Checking All the Boxes

Posted on December 8, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As you near the end of the semester, it's time to check off all the boxes on your list of to-dos for each of your classes. If you are a CCSS or standards-based school, that means making sure you have...Read More

Losing History: My Breakdown at the National Mall

Posted on November 6, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As teachers of History, we are constantly devalued. Students ask why they must take our courses, administrators take our class time for assemblies or testing, states push the teaching of everything but History, and in comparison to requirements in other...Read More

Living the Geography Lesson: Applying the Content

Posted on November 3, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As a Social Studies teacher in the middle and high school grades, you are often asked why your course is important. In Geography courses, it used to be very easy to explain with skills like map reading and cultural investigations...Read More

Seeing the Big Picture: Helping Students Visualize Multiple Perspectives

Posted on October 20, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Teaching from a textbook or singular source can often leave the impression on our students that history is one-sided. After years of this indoctrination to history, our students are blind to the truth about history. It becomes a battle at...Read More

Analyzing Legislation: A Political or Social Approach?

Posted on October 9, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

In my first few years of teaching, I taught with a U.S. History teacher who believed every law was passed simply because Congress saw it as what should be. He gave no credit to the social movements that encouraged the...Read More

Doing the Charleston!

Posted on March 11, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Teaching is not always a FUN job! It can be very stressful from time to time, especially in our high stakes, standards-based academic world. But then there are the days... I love teaching the Roaring 20s. I love teaching my...Read More