Rice University
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Located on 300 wooded campus -acre in Houston, Rice University is among the top 20 universities in the United States and the top 100 in the Welt.Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture , Business , Continuing Education , Engineering , Humanities, Music, social Science ,Natural Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Teaching History
This class provides practical guidelines curriculum that will engage for the development and delivery of a history lesson , students participate and make history in a relevant and important topic .Course Format
The course is divided into six modules .Each module is organized around a central theme that will help you take the road to develop their skills as teachers of history .The first four modules will be published simultaneously with the start of the course .- Setting the standard
- Develop and transmit a history teaching
- Help students learn to think like historians
- The development of writing skills in a history class
- Developing an action plan for the teaching of history
- Peer Review of Action Plan
Each module provides video lectures, readings , interviews with professors of history at Rice University and reflection questions related to the topic of the module.
About the Course
A good kind of story requires more than memorizing laundry lists of information - which requires students to read and write , to ask questions and think analytically , curiosity about the past to be .The students can live in the conditions meet perfectly unconscious life and happy what CAN I seem trivial historical information appears , but can not succeed in today's information society , without the ability to read, write and think at higher levels .History , knowledgeable , these students candlewick.Escherichia skills can also help students understand lam undo they live and how they fit in this world.
Suggested Readings
Although not required, the following books are recommended as supplements to this course:
- Bruce Lesh, “Why Won’t You Just Tell Us the Answer?”: Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12
- Nikki Mandell and Bobbie Malone, Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction
- Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life
- Peter Sterns, Peter Seixas, and Sam Wineburg, Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives
- Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past