Monday, February 11, 2013
Teaching the People Themselves
The past two weeks of reading provided a more complex understanding of American government and the Constitution. In class, a couple of the current teachers said that this would change how they taught these topics. As a prospective teacher (in high school), I am wondering how we can best incoporate Origianl Meanings and The People Themselves in the classroom. Are these in depth discussions best suited for the college classroom?
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This is a great question, and I would love to see threads on individual teaching techniques. And ways in which we might incorporate some of these ideas. To be honest, the in depth discussions are better suited for graduate student classrooms--when I teach this at the college level, I have to impart all of these topics, and I cannot get this done just by handing the students a copy of Rakove. Rather, I have to design a number of projects and assignments that gets them to approach the materials in a given way.
Do you use a textbook when not teaching at the graduate level?
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