I'm a history teacher at a middle school. Got any tips on how to become a better one?
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I'm a history teacher at a middle school. Got any tips on how to become a better one?
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Never, EVER let the kids that play grand strategy games answer a question. Kill their entire passion for history please.
The idea actually crossed my mind
Anything in particular you'd recommend? Forgot to mention I'm europoor.
tell them how jp morgan sunk the titanic
Why?
Funny, but it would be better to try to improve their understanding of history rather than kill it.
This. It's supposed to be good advice not bad advice.
why's that anon
Would you like it if a student started screaming "THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!! DUDUDUUUDUDUU!!!" if 1600s Poland is mentioned?
Blow their minds about the history of secret societies in US politics. Also go over wall street and industrialist influence in politics since the 1880's
The most important part of being a history teacher is to never actually teach, just hand out worksheets and play Crash Course videos and documentaries. It would also help to become a football coach if you aren't one already. Also, make sure to get really fat and shave your head if you're not fat and bald already. If you do this, everyone will love you, and it will give your students a lifelong passion for history.
This works. My favorite history teacher had weighed 200 pounds and had a giant bald spot on the back of his head.
Mr. Bosco?
Join a teachers union
Demand better pay and more benefits
Demand that you not be exploited by the state.
I think that's about it
Kids are motivated by food. Candy works. Buy lunch for the best kid.
You're memeing but my 8th grade english teacher bought in n out and let you eat it in class for whichever 3 students read the most at the end of each semester and it motivated a lot of us.
the tudors were NOT straight bussin fr fr
Cope. Y Mab Darogan Harri Tvdvr put the Anglo scum in their place.
let them LARP as different time eras in class
Never, EVER TELL THE KIDS TO DO A HISTORY DEGREE
IT'S A ONE WAY FUNNEL TO TEACHING
NO FUTURE
That said, you should try and keep history interesting. Shake it up with new fascinating cultures each week. Talk about the Incan roads, then the Polynesian seafarers
Make sure you always link the history to the modern day, and why it matters.
Talk about juicy and amusing stuff. They'll always remember who Mao was if you mention the Four Pests, and they'll always remember the Ottomans if you mention the "Sultan is allowed to fire 40 arrows a day" law.
How do History classes work in your country? In America some years we were unable to finish the curriculum because none of the kids got any work done. Throughout that year we were supposed to learn about stuff from 1492 to 2001 but by the end of that year we barely got to reading about the civil war.
That's the teacher's discretion in America. You can either let the fricktards fail so the good kids can learn, or you go slow as shit so you can show the principal a pile of passing grades when the lowlives and do nothings finally hand you one packet from the start of the quarter 2 hours before grades are due.
Colonization was a good thing and africans should be thankful for it
Are you saying this as someone living in a European country now full of Black folk?
Rely more on visual and interactive stuff (videos, images, maps, games, etc). One that particularly worked for me is to tell students to do models of battles or historical buildings. They love doing that.
Also try to connect what you're teaching with the everyday life of the students. For example, as a teacher in Mexico, when learning the Mesoamerican period I teach them which cultural aspects (food, words, customs still practiced) are native and which ones were brought by the spanish.
I remember absolutely nothing from my Junior High history/Social Studies curriculum accept for one teacher who, after teaching us about the Vietnam Era, dressed up like a hippie and had us all sit in a circle to recreate the "experience."
I wrote a note to another student that said "Mr. [gay] is gay" and he found it left in one of the textbooks. He confronted me after class and said "Do you really think I'm gay?" He was a creep and gave me pedo vibes.
Connect history to other subjects they might find interesting (technology, art, math/science, games, etc).
This.
If you can weave the narrative into the activity, and be a compelling storyteller, they will learn more as well. I teach art history during my visual art lessons and my students always comment about how much they learn about history in my class.
For example, when teaching about the Medieval period, the student use facsimiles of manuscripts and dip-ink-pens (they LOVE those) to practice calligraphy and historiated/inhabited initials. Or when teaching about Chinese ink painting, they use the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual used by artists during the Qing Dynasty as inspiration for their work.
I wish I could teacher History, but it's completely subverted in my area of the US. They no longer teach about Classical Antiquity or Ancient Greece, Egypt, Rome because it's not "culturally relevant." Thank goodness I can still teach it in the visual arts and they haven't come after my content area yet.
walk around the classroom instead of standing at a whiteboard or, god forbid, sitting down
far easier to pay attention to a moving object than a whining voice in the corner
if you're allowed to move furniture, position the desks in a square or a circle, with you in the center
you are poorly skilled and poorly paid to teach the children of the butcher and the plumber, nothing much is expected of you.
1. and most importantly, be strict when needed, military-like if needed
2. be funny, but staying serious, incorporate funny anecdotes and factoids abotu the lessons you're teaching, sort of like jokes
1-2. "please close the door from outside" aka you just kicked a student out of class, in a classy and funny way
show them shitty my little dark age edits of the topic you're going to teach that day before starting the lesson, give them homeworks on paradox games. here you got yourself little """""history""""" nerds. (with this you reduce their chance of breeding to zero)
might not work on girls though. show them tumblr screencaps of small obscure historical facts tumblr obsesses over like a historic figure being le gay idk
>captcha: WAARR
rp them on the jq
bsd
>we have a special lesson planned for today
>don't worry, minority students are exempt, there is a bucket of KFC waiting for you in the PoC safespace
>now let's run through the theory of evolution and examine how it applies to humans
Incorporate ethical stuff when asking the class, like when you bring up a historical event, relate the event to an ethical position, such as stuff like Spanish inquisition or why the Irish potato famine happened. A sort of "what would you do in this scenario" thing, keeping an open dialogue with the students
Be the cool and funny boomer teacher who teaches very loudly. Had that teacher in HS, inspired a lot to study history
Don't let them become historians. It's a hard life.
Zoomers aren't interested in history. Paradox playing prussiaboos don't count.