How to Teach Social Studies / History: A Survival Guide for First Year Teachers
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Your first year of teaching is awful. Why do first year social studies teachers have to reinvent the wheel? In this series, I will be demonstrating how to teach social studies with an emphasis on critical thinking, student engagement, opinion development, and writing.
If you would like any of the materials for these lessons, they are available for a nominal fee ($.95) at teacherspayteachers:
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words cannot explain how helpful this is.... I'm a first year teacher and its been very difficult. Thank you!!
I don't have a M.A. Education, I am coming to teaching from the arts so I am so grateful I ran into your toolbox! Thnx Dude
Thank you so much for publishing this video. I am weeks away from starting my first year & this video was a HUGE eye-opener. Thank you!
Your welcome! If you ever need help planning a lesson, feel free to email me at sandershistoryvideos@gmail.com. Remember, your first year is going to be incredibly difficult - stick with it!
This helps. I’m in my first year and I am struggling immensely. I have headaches, stomach pains, I feel my body alignment getting destroyed. My shoulder and neck hurt. I’m waking up in the middle of the night somehow thinking about lessons or the dread of having to go back. I make it through the day but I don’t know how much longer
Hang in there, the first year is impossible. My best advice for failing first year teachers is to keep it simple. Write the question / objective on the board. Teach about it / have the students read about it. Have the students write the answer. Don't kill yourself trying to be creative at first - use lessons others have created like mine on this channel for that.
This one of the finest education videos on You Tube! Thanks for educating us.
Thanks! The compliment really means alot to me!
Thank you so much for this!
Great lecture. I teach at the British American Collegio in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I look forward to viewing your material that you have provided. My students take classs in both English and Spanish. Grammatically correct instruction is critical as most of my students are headed to attend colleges in USA or Europe.
Thanks! I'm a 3rd year, but this is still excellent information.
That's really helpful. I'm waiting for more great videos.
This is fantastic! Thank you!
Thank you for the advise.
It's helpful! Thank you!
Mr. Sanders, I am floundering. I am an Alternative Licensure Program teacher (BA in History) for a rural school. I teach all 3 levels of middle school social studies. The only other social studies teacher is for the high school (also ALP). There is no curriculum, lesson plans or anything established. The only guide I have is the CDE standards for the state. Your vids help out a great deal, thank you. I any one has any tip suggestions or anything, I'd be grateful.
hey man, im in my first year and this one video has given me so much to go off of. thank you very much
4th year Social Studies H.S. teacher here looking forward to utilizing parts of your pedagogy once we get back into in person teaching. Zoom breakout rooms just aren't working for learners. Appreciate this content.
I can't thank you enough for this, it's not easy being new!
It truly is one of the most challenging fields to enter into and gain mastery of. Email me at sandershistoryvideos@gmail.com if you ever need help with a lesson - I'm here to help!
Thank you so much, I'm a home school mum and this was ever so helpful thanks again
Glad I could help!
Man, that was good stuff....critical thinking and prompting the students to participate. Minimal notes...YES. 20 years experience here----> Thanks
Thank you so much for your kind words, they really do mean alot to me.
wow great advise.
How do you maintain control of the class when opening discussion/debate? Anytime I open for some moderate discussion with 8th grade, it turns into a chaotic discussion about everything BUT what I told them to discuss with a low volume.
Whole class or turn and talk? If they can't handle turn and talk after going over the rules, don't do it. For whole class, write names on board when students say on topic and give a check, checks get extra credit and positive emails home. Off topic nonsense or talking out of turn equals X next to your name on the board and an email home saying so.
@@jeffreysanders7334 I’m a first year career changer…. Can you help me understand the difference between the two?
Turn and talk is when you tell the class to talk to their neighbors while you walk around. Otherwise you should be running the debate from the front of the class and students only get to talk when you call on them after they raise their hands.@@coreychafin14
Regarding the British vs Americans as the cause of the war, how much info do you provide students? The deeper you go into the history the more you could discuss, but at some point it might get overwhelming (and not be on the AP Exam). How do you provide info for students to refer to for these debates?
Good questions, Michael.
The methods I use in this video are mostly NOT intended for AP classes. The methods I use here are to enable the average person who will never be an historian to get the skills from a history class that they will be able to use in their everyday lives after they graduate high school.
For a middle school or standard high school class, I typically provide one day on this debate. I present four incidents that occurred before the war including the Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, and the Intolerable Acts, breaking them down into the most basic, short, objective facts that historians mostly agree upon. I then ask the students who was more at fault for this incident and why.
For example:
The Boston Massacre started when England sent troops to Boston because colonists were not paying their taxes. (Query: was this England's stupidity or America's fault and why?)
The troops' presence angered many colonists. (Query: were the colonists right to be mad or not and why? Connection to the present - should people in crime ridden areas fear or respect the police and why?)
The colonists yelled at the British troops and implored them to fire.
The troops did fire. (Query: who is more at fault, the British troops or the colonists here? Why?)
This is obviously not quite complete, but as you can see, the notes are extremely simple and cover only the objective facts. The teacher's job is now incredibly easy - make sure the kids are reading and developing opinions, then challenging the validity of those opinions by playing devil's advocate yourself and getting the other students who disagree to discuss.
The best part, if and when it happens (and it often does), is that a student will often say, "I need to know more" and find more facts about the incident in question. They're being the historian, rather than you cramming a bunch of facts down their throat.
hello Jeffrey very nice to watch your video on S.S.
This is my Second year teaching S.S & as we teach From Text books, So how can we make more interesting History & Civics. History as its on Plot..but how can be explain more in interesting manner?.
Textbooks can be an excellent resource in the social studies classroom - the key is to use them to foster critical thinking skills rather than, "here's a reading, memorize the terms and keywords, close the book, and spit them back to me."
When using textbooks, give the students guided reading questions that demand they use critical thinking and opinion development in order to answer them. For example, do NOT ask, "who was John Adams and why was he famous" as this is boring and pointless. Instead - "do you agree or disagree with historians' assertion that Adams impinged upon the Bill of Rights? Why or why not?", or, "After the Battle of Bunker Hill, George Washington famously noted, "the country is safe." How could George Washington have said that if the colonists LOST the battle? What lesson does this teach us in life?"
If only more teachers watched these..
I am try for teacher job .I have written examination based on child psychology
Mr. Sanders, are you still available over four years after this video to help answer some questions? Thanks.
I’ll ask him tomorrow at school
Hi! I am just about to begin the journey and want to truly awaken minds.. I will be thrilled to be able to contact you
Good luck, and feel free to contact me at any time! Sandershistoryvideos@gmail.com.
Remember, teaching for your first few years is impossibly difficult, and there will be moments when you'll probably want to quit. Power through it and realize that you will get better over time.
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I am a first-year teacher and yes I am awful. :)
We've all been there. Some additional advice - keep it simple. Introduce an easy goal at the beginning of your lesson. Keep your notes easy and short. Keep your assignments easy and straightforward, often times cutting and pasting right from the notes.
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I am a new teacher and would love some help- what's your email!!
sandershistoryvideos@gmail.com. I would be glad to help you in any way that I can.
sandershistoryvideos@gmail.com