Teaching of History

Affected by how you view history

Affected by your background as a teacher and philosophy in teaching

- Share your background and experience

History: perceived by most students as boring

- Ironic as it is hard to get bored when narrating Julius Caesar’s betrayal by Brutus,
Cleopatra’s abandonment of Mark Antony, Napoleon fighting against all odds

- Not taught in context

- Don’t focus on who, where and when: but on what, how and why it happened

- Make it relevant: valuing

- Most important question for historians: SO WHAT?

Coverage is immense: 10,000 years of history; AP: 3 hours a week

illustrative examples

let them decide what is important for them; but give them outline

What to teach?

K-12 Curriculum guide

What to emphasize?

Valuing

What is needed for the next lesson

Importance of Studying Geography and History

Geography (what to emphasize?)

Origin of the Earth (religion vs science)

Origin of Man (religion vs science)

Prehistory (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic)

current trends: which came first, sedentary living or agriculture?

Civilization (kabihasnan vs sibilisasyon)

Cradles of Civilization

Riverine civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus, Nile (Review only except for Egypt)

Europe, Mesoamerica, South America

Focus:

- Role of Geography

- PERSIA (Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual, Artistic)

- Contributions

- How to preserve/take care of these contributions

Document-based

- pictures

- primary sources: Code of Hammurabi

- even assessment is document-based

K-12

- Explore, Firm Up, Deepen, Transfer

- Researching, Summarizing, Reporting, Collaborating, Use of Technology