A week and a half and the honeymoon’s already over. The students are getting comfortable, and their true personalities have emerged. I’m okay with that, though. This is when it gets interesting. Not one of my sociology students was prepared for the test today, I realized, as we were playing the review game. It was
Sounds daunting, right? Well, it is, a little, when you’re first starting out. These things have been around since the 70s (so the technology involved is a xerox machine and a bottle of glue–no dittos, please), but they seem to be all the rage, lately. I have been teaching for 13 years now, seven of
So, I’ve taught social studies for going on 7 years. But before that, I taught English. As an English-turned-social-studies-teacher, when I first embarked on the ever daunting world history course, I put an inordinate amount of time and thought into vocabulary. We all remember it from high school–the social studies vocabulary lists. Remember? It could
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