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)

http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/ask-a-master-teacher/24711

Brainstorming

https://www.teachervision.com/teaching-methods/resource/5046.html

Carousel

http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/brainstorming-reviewing-using-carousel-30630.html

Case Study

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/casestudy.htm

Concept Formation 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/concept_formation.htm

Cooperative Learning 

http://www.co-operation.org/what-is-cooperative-learning/

Cornell Notes 

http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html

Debate

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy012.shtml

Dialectical Notes 

http://www.mshogue.com/ce9/Oral_history/dialectic_notes.htm

Document Analysis

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/

Double Exposure 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/Double_Exposure.htm

Dueling Documents 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/Dueling%20Document.htm

Field Trip

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/educators/technique-guide/taking-a-field-trip/

Fishbowl 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/fishbowl.htm

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

http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2007/what-does-it-mean-to-think-historically

Gallery Walk 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/gallerywalk.htm

Graffiti Groups 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/graffiti.htm

Graphic Organizers

http://www.graphic.org/

Guest Speaker

http://www.uft.org/teacher-teacher/bringing-guest-speakers-your-classroom

Inquiry 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/inquiry.htm

Interactive Notebook

http://teachingwithatouchoftwang.blogspot.com/2012/08/social-studies-interactive-notebook.html

Internet Assignment

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/onlineactivities.html

Interview

https://www.learner.org/workshops/tml/workshop6/teaching2.html

Jigsaw 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/jigsaw_coop.htm

KWL (Know / What / Learned)

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/kwl.htm

Learning Center

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/new-approach-learning-centers

Lecture

http://teachinghistory.org/nhec-blog/25266

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

https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

Mock Trial 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/mocktrials.htm

Moot Court

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/mootcourt.htm

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

http://historytech.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/tip-of-the-week-persia-graphic-organizer/

Political Cartoons

http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/21733

Post It Poll 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/postitpoll.htm

Power Point Presentation

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech013.shtml

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/pbl.htm

RAFT

http://www.writingfix.com/wac/Writing_Across_Curriculum_RAFTS_Soc_Studies.htm

Research Paper

http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/25516

Role Playing

http://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/teaching-in-action/14947

Simulation

http://teachinghistory.org/nhec-blog/25117

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

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/preap/teachers_corner/45200.html

Socratic Seminar

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/socratic-seminar

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

http://lake.k12.fl.us/Page/13240

Stay or Stray 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/stay%20or%20stray.htm

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

Synectics (Understanding Together)

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/synectics.htm

Take a Stand 

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/takestand.htm

Teams-Games-Tournaments

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/tgt_coop.htm

Think Pair Shares

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/teaching_strategies/pairshares_coop.htm

Timelines / Change Over Time

http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/24347

Textbook Reading

http://teachinghistory.org/issues-and-research/research-brief/25421

Venn Diagrams

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Every-Teachers-Best-Friend-Venn-diagram-as-a-Learning-Tool

53 Ways to Check Understanding

http://www.edutopia.org/resource/checking-understanding-download

  
  

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