When thinking about using graphic organizers in the classroom, the first thing that comes to mind are the plan jane venn diagrams. When I was in school, I always hated the idea of the Venn Diagram. I always thought they were boring and over done. After reading Using Graphic Organizers Correctly, I learn there is indeed…
Making Learning Interesting
Many people have said it and many more will, that history is BORING. The idea of making history more fun makes people think that this possible cannot be done. In Zevin’s book, Teaching History as a Mystery has made this feat feel more do-able. Recently I read the chapter called : Truer than true: Women…
Zotero: Citing in the classroom
In the recent history of my life ( aka roughly 6 years ago/freshman year of high school), I learned that you need to cite things when you wrote a paper. I remember walking into Mrs. Brinson’s classroom and in BIG letters M.L.A format was on the board. My little 14 year old brain was blown…
Teaching in the 21st Century
For years we have been teaching the same stuff the same way for forever. In a history classroom we have the feature and powerpoint thing for so long we don’t know how to do anything else. I think it is time we tried something new for once. In David Gerwin and Jack Zevin’s book Teaching U.S….
Planning for the Years to Come…
More recently I have had the opportunity to work more on what I will actual be doing as a teacher to prepare for making lessons and working on unit planning. Because of this have been doing some reading on what this is all about. 1st was Unit Plans: The Basis for Instruction and then Unit Plans:…
Backwards Design For Curriculum Building: Week 4
In the article “Backward Design for Curricular and Course (Re)Design Provost Office & Teaching Academy” proposes the idea that for the longest time we have been doing the design for curriculum wrong this entire time. In the traditional sense, the process has been: Activity Show what the kids have learned Did we meet the goal?…
Inverted Blooms Taxonomy
Blooms Taxonomy is something all educators have heard at least once or twice, or maybe enough times to hear it in our sleep…. but anyways ITS A BIG DEAL…. An article in the education weekly bring up the idea of the Inverted Blooms Taxonomy This idea, basically turns the OG Bloom’s Taxonomy on its head, and…
Bio
Bio- Macy Watts Macy Watts is from the New Bern, North Carolina area, Alliance, NC to be exact. She is a graduate from Pamlico County High School in Bayboro, North Carolina and is a junior at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She is currently studying Secondary History and Social Studies Education with a…
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