Bringing History Home: A Classroom Teacher's Quest to Make the Past Matter

By Bill Schechter

Book Overview

Bringing History Home focuses on how to make the teaching of high school history both an intellectual challenge and an experiential adventure. The book focuses on mobilizing pedagogy and curriculum through a variety of activities and resources-music, poetry, field trips, simulations, crafts, current news and civics-to deepen students' involvement with the subject matter. History classes should be memorable. Bringing History Home provides support and inspiration to education majors, newly minted teachers, and seasoned professionals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475846649
• ISBN13: 9781475846645
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"