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Elizabeth Belanger – History Teacher, 2024
Many studies show the value of local history, especially multicultural history, to youth development and student learning outcomes. Incorporating local history into classrooms improves students' ability to question historical significance, analyze primary sources, contextualize their historical thinking, and embrace the learning process as their…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Civil Rights, Local History
William Thomas Okie – History Teacher, 2024
This article describes the author's experience teaching oral history to seventh, eighth, and ninth graders in Honduras for two weeks in 2017. Students planned and implemented an oral history project to document the local history of the valley and their communities. The author hoped that students would grow in their understanding of history as an…
Descriptors: Oral History, History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Teaching Methods
Susanta, Agus; Sumardi, Hari; Susanto, Edi; Retnawati, Heri – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2023
Mathematical literacy has an important role in solving students' real-life problems in supporting literacy skills, teachers can use real contexts as outlined in tasks in-class learning. The Bengkulu context can be used because it is closely related to the environment and students' daily live. This study aims to produce math literacy tasks in the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Junior High School Students, Mathematics Skills, Teaching Methods
Jane Townsend; Mike Brown – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2023
This article outlines the development of a leadership programme for senior students involved in co-leading a Year 9 cross-curricula "Festival of Learning" known as Hui Taurima. The focus is on the Maori student leaders' perspectives of a place-responsive approach to developing leadership that drew on the expertise of school staff, mana…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Student Leadership, Grade 8
Morris, Ronald V. – Geography Teacher, 2016
Eighth-grade students from three school districts in three small towns in Crosby County, Texas, received academic credit for working together with the biannual Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum summer travel education program. Each of the three districts radiate from a small town. They were within one county, and the museum was located in the…
Descriptors: Local History, State History, Grade 8, Field Experience Programs