Noah Webster's Teaching Blog

Blog Post published by Matt Hetrick on Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Books for K-12 Teachers

Noah Webster's Teaching Blog

There was a spirited exchange about the use and practice of K-12 teaching and teacher preparation and the full exchange can be found here, but I wanted to just compile a reading list.

Although I am not currently teaching grade school, in a previous career I was and so I am sympathetic to both the challenges and the needs for good, readable history. Many of these books could also work for undergraduates and I would love for our readers to continue to add to this list.

Blog Post published by Matt Hetrick on Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The First Week

Noah Webster's Teaching Blog

Now that schools are back in session (weather permitting of course) I'm curious for ideas about what to do in that dreaded first week. I usually spend the first class going over the syllabus and class expectations. This usually ends being a somewhat wasted exercise since I have to answer questions throughout the semester while restraining myself from yelling "Read the Syllabus!" I then spend the remainder of the week discussing the the introductions to the main texts for the course.

Blog Post published by Matt Hetrick on Thursday, January 23, 2014

Teaching (the Early Republic)

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This will serve as the inaugural post of the teaching blog here at H-SHEAR. I hope we will have many participants, as both posters and commenters, but I wanted to get the ball rolling and introduce myself. I am a Network Editor here at H-SHEAR and I am currently a Visting Professor at Loyola University Maryland. Prior to graduate school I taught Middle School for three years and I have a Masters in Teaching.