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Pullan, Sam – Teaching History, 2022
Sam Pullan explains how a chance encounter has helped him to improve his introduction to the modern themes and founding documents of US politics. Working with a professional historian whom he met, by chance, over dinner, he was able to produce lessons at the cutting edge of subject knowledge to grab the attention of his Year 11 pupils. This…
Descriptors: Historians, History Instruction, Lesson Plans, Grade 11
Boss, Suzie – District Administration, 2012
For their ambitious project, called America at War, high school juniors at Da Vinci Charter Academy in the Davis (California) Joint Unified School District didn't just study history. They became historians. Their project offers compelling evidence of what students can accomplish through project-based learning (PBL), an instructional approach that…
Descriptors: State Standards, Performance Based Assessment, Active Learning, Teaching Methods