Learn how to incorporate civic education, ethical reflection and historical context. Check out the more than 60 studentcentered teaching strategies on the facing history and ourselves website. Such as 321 or analyzing visual images and stereotyping or postit note partners or wraparound. Teachers, find suggested facing history resources and tools that tie into each book recommendation to build upon and expand your lessons. Interweaving the historical context of depressionera rural southern life, and informed by facing history s pedagogical approach, this resource introduces layered perspectives and thoughtful strategies into the teaching of to. Adapting teaching and learning strategies the strategies linked to learning activities are a suggestion only. When you comment on facing today, youre engaging with our worldwide community of learners, so please take care that your contributions are constructive, civil, and advance the conversation. These questions have been given new urgency in the face of the ongoing genocide in darfur, sudan.
Book cover for a teachers resource to the children of willesden lane by mona. Common corealigned teaching strategies facing history and. It was then that diane trister dodge, teaching strategies visionary founder, was deep in the trenches of head start in mississippi, honoring a personal commitment to ensuring that every child has access to highquality early childhood education. Download an excerpt of teaching mockingbird, that will help educators connect important themes of justice and morality to contemporary issues. May 23, 2018 with support from the nonprofit facing history and ourselves, dr. Marilyn taylor taught her students at overton high school a lesson on how reconstruction led to racial violence like lynchings, which motivated students to see if any lynchings had occurred in shelby county, tennessee, where their school is located. Facing history and ourselves is a nonprofit organization in the united states, founded in 1976. Designed to support uk educators teaching history, citizenship, pshe, rs and english, this resource offers a variety of classroom strategies to develop critical thinking and communication skills, model democracy in the classroom, and empower students to become active, responsible citizens. About two years ago, when i began reading draft chapters of facing history s new publication on the reconstruction era in american history, i got to thinking back to how i learned about this period in high school in 1959 and in college, and also how i taught it to my students while teaching high school several years later in 1965. Watch this webinar to hear three classroom teachers discuss their best practices, reflect on classroom successes and challenges.
A facing history and ourselves approach to advisory. It can be used to introduce students to any new book, whether a work of literature or a. It provides an easy way for teachers to check for understanding and to gauge students. Search our collection of classroom resources to plan a unit or find the.
Applying skills and content in social studies iowa core. Oct 21, 2009 i am so grateful that facing history and ourselves developed the study guide teaching red scarf girl. Facing today a facing history blog cross curricular. I dont mean, of course, that i stand for the entire semester facing the blackboard as my fifth grade math teacher did, but that i start in the present and work my way backwardsat least part of the time. For a more comprehensive unit about the holocaust that follows the facing history scope and sequence, see our onemonth unit outline. Facing history and ourselves works with teachers, students, and the community to talk about responsibility in the face of genocide. A history teaching toolbox is the perfect handbook for busy classroom teachers eager to try out some new strategies with their students.
Join us to learn about facing historys new canadian resource, stolen lives. The five lessons in this unit give students an overview of the history of nazi germany and the holocaust and provide a window into the choices individuals, groups, and nations made that contributed to genocide. Based on the lens of history highlighted in howard zinns bestselling book a peoples history of the united states, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period. In this workshop, we will explore the new resource and provide teaching strategies to help educators bring this important history into their classrooms. Facing history offers studentcentered teaching strategies that nurture students literacy and critical thinking skills within a respectful classroom climate. Founded in 1977, facing history and ourselves offers workshops and institutes for middle and high school teachers. Our collection of educator resources includes a wide range of flexible, multimedia materials, from primary sources and streaming videos to teaching strategies, lesson plans, and full units. Facing history and ourselves is a free website with resources for teaching about and combating hatred and bigotry. Teaching mockingbird presents educators with the materials they need to transform how they teach harper lees classic novel to kill a mockingbird. The depaul university and facing history and ourselves collaboration was delighted to hold its evening seminar on april 29 2019, from 6. Identity charts facing history and ourselves teaching. This program supports schools establish safe and inclusive communities where students can. For more than 30 years, facing history and ourselves has been helping teachers and students make the connection between history and their own lives by offering content and teaching strategies that. Search our collection facing history and ourselves.
Relevant lesson plans, literature and antibias resources and strategies to help you discuss the topics of racism, antisemitism and white supremacy with young people. Using facing history and ourselves resources and pedagogy. All 60 strategies promote students literacy and critical thinking skills within a respectful classroom climate. Spark students interest in a book before reading it by having them make predictions. An activity based on the sit strategy provides a quick and straightforward way for. Institute for historical research great britain library of congress. The teaching strategies listed here guide teachers stepbystep as they cultivate close. Depaul university and facing history and ourselves. Facing today a facing history blog teaching strategies. Effective teaching strategies facing history and ourselves. The zinn education project promotes and supports the teaching of peoples history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Current events in the classroom on wednesday, february 12, 2020. One year ago, facing history and ourselves launched teaching mockingbird, a curriculum and professional development program to help teachers tackle these critical issues and start talking about. Our new teaching strategies pdf collates a selection of strategies that.
Posted by lesa smith on march 22, 2016 lesa smith on march 22, 2016. Teaching about residential schools facing history and ourselves. Mar 23, 2020 at facing history and ourselves, we value conversationin classrooms, in our professional development for educators, and online. The guide concludes with suggested resources for further learning.
About facing history and ourselves facing history and ourselves is a nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote a more humane and informed citizenry. More than 60 tried and tested activities and approaches are organised into helpful categories and explained with stepbystep instructions and topicspecific examples to illustrate how they can be immediately employed. The teachers toolkit includes several teaching strategies that could be helpful in any classroom. Our company history can be traced to the mid1960s and the beginning of the war on poverty. I teach my american history survey course backwards. At facing history and ourselves, we value conversationin classrooms, in our professional development for educators, and online. You can modify the elements of the 321 strategy to focus on. Sep 15, 2014 high school first day, high school history, beginning of school, high school art great ideas for the first day of school like. Due to the covid19 outbreak, facing history and ourselves library service has. Throughout, they share their triedandtrue facing history teaching strategy favorites, strategies you can implement in your classroom right away. This teaching strategy builds observation, critical thinking, and interpretive skills.
The website has free lesson plans, units, resource collections, videos, and podcasts, and the materials here are interdisciplinary as well as common corealigned. The strategies suggested here can be used with students of all ages with any academic content. Find resources that will support your students learning, whether you are teaching a complex moment in history or addressing todays breaking news. Sep 10, 2003 history becomes powerful only as it resonates through us, says high school teacher wendy garner, who is part of a worldwide network of teachers benefiting from facing history s wealth of resources.
Teaching harper lees to kill a mockingbird the boston. Just like me, they believe in the importance between history and ourselves. Mar 01, 2000 the contributing editor welcomes submissions of your strategies in your fields. In most facing history and ourselves classrooms, teachers and students reflect on their learning by keeping journals, and it may be helpful to have students write journal entries as they watch banished. As teachers know their students learning styles and needs they can select alternative strategies or adapt those suggested to deliver the content.
Teaching red scarf girl by facing history and ourselves. Our stories provide a window into diverse facing history classrooms in canada, and invite you into the discussion. Facing historys approach to teaching this classic novel will deepen your students. The indigenous peoples of canada and the indian residential schools. Facing canada a facing history blog teaching strategies.
During the rapidly evolving situation around the novel coronavirus. Facing history and ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. Teaching history a guide for teachers teaching history for the first time outdoor class, near port moresby, png, walkabout, january 1964, p. Find teaching strategies that develop students critical thinking and model the skills and. Facing history and ourselves provides several teaching strategies that could be used with social studies or any other content area.
To kill a mockingbird excerpt facing history we use cookies to ensure you receive the best experience on our website. The group develops educational material on prejudices and injustice in american and european society, with a focus on nazi germany and the holocaust. Some strategies are social studies specific, while others could be adapted for other content areas. Facing history and ourselves for more than 25 years, the organization facing history and ourselves has engaged teachers and students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. This page offers resources to help frame difficult discussions with students about the genocide and the response of leaders and ordinary people across the world. Teaching mockingbird by facing history and ourselves. This is where canadian facing history and ourselves teachers and community members meet to share reflections, scholarship and teaching practices that will inspire, challenge and improve teaching and student learning. Here are a few titles that we hope you find engaging and t ake you deeper into the themes, histories, and questions at the heart of facing history and ourselves. Apr 14, 2017 teaching in the cracks provides both a theoretical and practical foundation for incorporating an actionfocused curriculum that meets academic standards and provides students with opportunities for agency and to use their voices in their own learning. Teaching about racism, antisemitism and white supremacy.
Oct 12, 2016 this is where canadian facing history and ourselves teachers and community members meet to share reflections, scholarship and teaching practices that will inspire, challenge and improve teaching and student learning. Organizations facing history and ourselves worse than war. Teaching mockingbird by facing history and ourselves, 9781940457079, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. I am so grateful that facing history and ourselves developed the study guide teaching red scarf girl. Experts from reimagining migration, facing history and ourselves, neighborhood of affordable housing and the boston mayors office for immigrant advancement presented in the free, interactive webinar understanding immigration today.
A history in which we can all see ourselves edutopia. Facing history offers studentcentered teaching strategies that nurture students literacy and. The readings in this collection explore the nature of identity, belonging, tolerance, and difference in our increasingly global society. As the name facing history and ourselves implies, the.