In a lucky twist of fate, I happened to be reading Total Participation Techniques by Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele for my TESOL assessments course just as I began to plan for edTPA. I completed my edTPA portfolio in my social studies teaching internship in Baltimore County’s “Personal Finance and Economic Theory” course. Economics as a […]
Author: khursh8
Resource: H-Net
When I’m teaching myself about a new theme, region, or time period, I often start by browsing H-Net, a collaborative online space for academic humanists and social scientists that is organized around subject “networks.” While the site is run for and by academics, most networks have a teaching resource page that may include sample syllabi […]
Lesson Plan in Humans and the Environment
“The environment shapes human societies, and as populations grow and change, these populations in turn shape their environments.” AP World History: Modern Course and Exam Description, 2019 The above quote almost seems like a truism, but it obscures an academic sore spot, an ongoing discussion (and sometimes argument) between scholars. There are some who emphasize […]
What is Global History?
The challenge of teaching global history is in its dizzying breadth. Out of all the regions of the world and 6,000-ish years of human history, how does one choose what to teach in the span of a year? For a start, it helps to dispose of the idea that world history is having knowledge of […]
Dismantling Mexico City’s Markets
Any historian who has walked from the metro San Lazaro to the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City is familiar with the smells and sounds of the “ambulantes,” or street stalls, that encircled the station. Encircled, past tense, because on April 4th, I walked out of the station, past lines of shield-baring police, […]