Methods for Teaching History

Catalog description

This course will focus on several topics and themes which are of great importance to practicing and aspiring teachers, including recent debates about the teaching of American, European, and World history, creative active-learning opportunities based on primary sources, the utility of lecturing, methods of historical inquiry, teaching writing while teaching history, the use of primary and secondary sources in the classroom, curriculum development and aligning with state standards, the use of technology in teaching and in student research, the benefits of incorporating local history into unit plans, and assignment design and evaluation.