Browse Past Blog Posts
Trickle or Tsunami?: Getting Involved with the Common Core Standards
Nov 18 2011
Is everybody talking about the Common Core standards in your district? [...] »
Teaching Thanksgiving 2011
Nov 17 2011
Prepare for Thanksgiving with our spotlight page on the holiday! [...] »
Michael Yell on Making Every History Lecture Engaging
Nov 14 2011
Is "lecture" a bad word? Or can you make a lecture an active learning experience for your students? Mike Yell says you can. [...] »
Jennifer Orr on Teaching Heroes
Nov 7 2011
How do you teach cultural heroes without simplifying history? First-grade teacher Jennifer Orr takes care to make historical figures three-dimensional. [...] »
Resources for Veterans Day
Nov 4 2011
How do your students celebrate Veterans Day? [...] »
Elizabeth Glynn on Using Art to Create Interdisciplinary Classrooms
Oct 31 2011
Use art to teach both history and how disciplines are interconnected, suggests TAH project director Elizabeth Glynn. [...] »
Valerie Tripp's Looking Backward, Looping Forward: How to Make a Period of History Matter to Your Students
Oct 24 2011
Start with memoirs or historical fiction and small issues children can relate to, and build from there! [...] »
Teachinghistory.org Teacher Representative Wins 2011 National History Teacher of the Year
Oct 21 2011
Congratulations to Stacy Hoeflich, the 2011 National History Teacher of the Year! [...] »
Amy Burvall's Life as a TechnoTroubadour
Oct 17 2011
Can you use music and creativity to help students structure what they know? Yes, says Hawaiian teacher Amy Burvall. [...] »
Film Review: John Adams
Oct 14 2011
Does John Adams depart too far from history to be useful in the classroom? Historian James Kloppenberg reviews the film. [...] »
