September 28, 2017

Strategies for Teaching History

Strategies for teaching history are ubiquitous and unlimited. Even so, I've provided a few links below that should serve as a sampling of what history teachers can do in the classroom.

APPARTS (Author / Place & Time / Prior Knowledge / Audience / Reason / The Main Idea / Significance)

Brainstorming

Carousel

Case Study

Concept Formation 

Cooperative Learning 

Cornell Notes 

Debate

Dialectical Notes 

Document Analysis

Double Exposure 

Dueling Documents 

Field Trip

Fishbowl 

Five C’s (Change Over Time / Context / Causality / Contingency / Complexity)

Gallery Walk 

Graffiti Groups 

Graphic Organizers

Guest Speaker

Inquiry 

Interactive Notebook

Internet Assignment

Interview

Jigsaw 

KWL (Know / What / Learned)

Learning Center

Lecture

Levels of Questioning (use as a guide to creating student assignments)

Mock Trial 

Moot Court

PERSIA (Politics / Economics / Religion / Social / Intellectual / Artistic)

Political Cartoons

Post It Poll 

Power Point Presentation

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) 

RAFT

Research Paper

Role Playing

Simulation

SOAPSTone (Speaker / Occasion / Audience / Purpose / Subject / Tone)

Socratic Seminar

SPRITE (Social / Political / Religious / Intellectual / Technological / Economic)

Stay or Stray 

Student-Created Video, PowerPoint, Sound Recording, Website, Poster, Oral Presentation, Panel Discussion, or Historical Model

Synectics (Understanding Together)

Take a Stand 

Teams-Games-Tournaments

Think Pair Shares

Timelines / Change Over Time

Textbook Reading

Venn Diagrams

53 Ways to Check Understanding

  
  

© 2014 James L. Smith

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