Welcome to H-TEACH, a network for intellectual exchange on history teaching methods at all levels in diverse settings. Special attention is paid to use of new technologies in and outside of the classroom, as well as specific teaching tools including texts, videos, exams, and assignments.
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Call For Papers Special Section "History Fun and Games" of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods The Fall 2023 issue of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods will include a special section consisting of original research articles, expert interviews, and student reflection essays about teaching and learning history with games.
Happy Teaching Tuesday!
Including a tip this week from my presentation at last week's virtual workshop on "Teaching with Primary Sources."
For students to successfully analyze a primary source, they need to make sure they have sufficient background information on the document. To remind students, I tell them every time they approach a primary source they should think "WTF?" This is both a fun reminder that at first they might not know what they are getting into, but a more practical memory tool to identify:
Teaching Tuesdays is now a blog! I am recapping previous tips below.
Keep an eye out for a brand new blog post tomorrow.
Teaching Tuesdays #1
Welcome to Teaching Tuesdays! We will share a short tip on teaching every week. If you have a useful tip, please send it to editorial-teach@mail.h-net.org. Wishing everyone a productive new year!
Here is our first tip from H-teach editor, Brad Cartwright:
UCL Press is pleased to announce an open access book that is likely to be of interest to list subscribers: Holocaust Education: Contemporary challenges and controversies, edited by Stuart Foster, Andy Pearce, and Alice Pettigrew. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3YtBHfk
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Holocaust Education: Contemporary challenges and controversies
Edited by Stuart Foster, Andy Pearce, and Alice Pettigrew
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
