I teach 11th grade World History. My peers will not budge on teaching the Holocaust through film. I have my own opinions about Holocaust movies (good, bad, etc.), but I'm curious what you all think would make the best film to teach high school students about the Holocaust.
(Presume many of them know the basic concepts, but little beyond regarding the Holocaust and what it was)
I’m about a month into my first semester now, this is a second career for me. I was 21 years in the military and always wanted to teach history when I retired. This has been eye opening in the worst way possible. Absolutely soul crushing. It’s just day after day of disappointment, filtering through ai slop, or minimal effort garbage. I don’t need this job, this was something I WANTED to do, but god am I second guessing that.
Now it sucks because in every class I have there ARE a few decent kids that are eager to engage and learn, but they are drowned out in a sea of absolute stupidity and mediocrity. How do people do this for years, or decades at a time?
I feel as if my 6th graders are doing too much reading about otzi and social scientist jobs. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can make a lesson about ötzi more fun?
Hi. I'm thinking of doing a group project based on graphic novels or comics with 5th and 6th grade students. I teach Social Studies.
I'm looking to select 8-10 excerpts of those novels or comics. Students will then search the historical context (if there is one) and analyse the story. I was originally thinking about doing something with "Maus" or "Perspeolis", but know it be too changelling for the target age groups. Also, I'm based in Europe, so I'm looking for novels available here.
Any suggestions for the graphic novels? Thank you!
I am a first year AP Government teacher and am noticing that students just aren’t retaining the content as well as I hoped. Besides vocab quizzes and the Frayer model, what are some ways you guys teach key vocab to students?
One semester high school I use a lot of iCivics, but teach at small school so 6 diff preps this semester…