High-Impact, High Engagement
Strategies for Increasing Student
Learning in Your
U.S. and WORLD HISTORY CLASSES
Penny Finley
Business Cards
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Is this an effective teacher?
Give One…..Get One…..
Write down 3 things that you know
about effective history instruction.
What does it look like?
What does it include?
What do students want?
What does an effective history teacher do?
Next…get up and share. Give one, get one…
“Take the attitude of a student,
never be too big to ask
questions, never know too much
to learn something new.”
Og Mandino
Think/Pair/Share: What Do You Want
Students to Remember About Your Classes?
Facts, Dates, People,
Concepts, Ideas,
Vocabulary?
Habits of Mind, Thinking
Skills, Strategies for
Learning?
What About a Love for History?
Do you want them to
remember your class for
its great discussions and
creative projects?
Do you want them to think
about what they learned
about democracy and
working collaboratively
with others?
What You Can Expect…
Practical strategies for engaged learning
Approaches to improve retention and
interest
Techniques for teaching vocabulary
Methods for lecture and note taking
that are connected to assessment
What You Can Expect…
Strategies to help you differentiate
instruction
Integration of reading, writing and
thinking in your classroom
Connections with exciting websites to
make history come alive
Your resources….
www.pennyfinley.com
My email: penny@pennyfinley.com
All of the links mentioned today for
videos and film are connected to my
website.
My Webpage
www.pennyfinley.com
www.pennyfinley.com
Today’s Agenda
•Section 1 until first Break
•Section 2 until Lunch at 11:45
•Section 3 after Lunch at 1:00
•Section 4 from the afternoon break until
around 3:15
Notes
Section 1
•Mini books
•Data Disks
•Numbered Heads Together
•Habits of Mind
•Interactive Bulletin Boards
•Fanny Packs
•Culture Projects
•Websites
Section 2
•Timeline games
•Rally table
•Using the textbook
•New American Lecture
•Strategies for Note Taking
•Academic Vocabulary Strategies
•Teacher Made Tests that Differentiate
Section 3
•Current Events
•Performance Tasks
•Digital Storytelling
•Creative Projects
•Best Websites
Section 4
•Strategies for Discussion and Review
•Analyzing the News
•Trade Fair
•Google Earth
“Seven Rules for Effective History
Teaching or Bringing Life to the
History Class”
Lee. W. Formwait
Organization of American
Historians
Rule One: Enthusiasm
“The spirit within you”
“Something inspiring zeal or fervor”
“Love what you teach and learn
something new about it every day.”
Enthusiasm for your
subject is contagious!
Rule Two: Rely less on textbooks
“Let the textbook guide the
outline for the course, but teach
form other sources.”
Primary Sources
Biography
Rule Three: Use well written
secondary sources
“Secondary sources re
critical for contextualizing
and making sense of those
rich firsthand sources.”
Rule Four: Look at things that
matter today.
“Stop thinking of history as
battles and wars, kings, and
presidents and start thinking
in terms of race, class, and
gender.”
Rule Five: Use generous amounts of local
history to teach
American and World History
“You an use local newspapers
in a variety of ways. How did
local people deal with WWII on
the home front? How did the
war affect advertising?”
Rule Six: Use music and film to appeal
to those senses not necessarily
stimulated by reading.
•Music makes emotional
connections
•Music promotes cultural history
•Promotes good listening skills
•“Be careful not to use films to
replace teaching. Instead, teach
the film!”
Rule Seven: Become
More Computer Literate
•List Serves
•Websites
•Virtual Field Trips
•Teaching Good Research
Skills
Resources and Themes in
Social Studies
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The Ten Themes in Social Studies
Culture
Time, Continuity and Change
People, Places, and Environment
Individual Development and Identity
Power, Authority, and Governance
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Science, Technology, and Society
Global Connections
Civic Ideals and Practices
Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
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Power, Authority and
Governance
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World
Leaders
Analyzing
the News
Power, Authority
and
Governance
The
Presidency
The History
of Leadership
Which is the real
Mount Rushmore?
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Mini Books and the Data Disk
Graphic Organizer
132-133
Never Attended College
Washington, Jackson, Van Buren,
Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, A.
Johnson, Cleveland, Truman
Born British Subjects
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Madison, Monroe, J.Q. Adams,
Jackson, W. Harrison
Oldest and Youngest
Reagan 69
Kennedy 43
T. Roosevelt 42
Died in Office
Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln,
Garfield, McKinley, Harding, F.
Roosevelt, Kennedy
In Arlington National Cemetery
Kennedy
Taft
Presidents on U.S. Coins
Lincoln, Jefferson, F.Roosevelt,
Washington, Kennedy,
Eisenhower
Never Elected
Ford
Rockefeller
Let’s Try a Useful Strategy…
Numbered Heads Together
1. Number off in the group.
2. Teacher asks a question.
3. Group members put their heads
together and agree on an answer.
4. Teacher calls a random number.
5. Only that member can answer.
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Make sure the members of your
group know…….
http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/history/us_history.html
What architectural
wonder was
completed in 1648?
Taj Mahal
What celestial bodies
did Galileo discover
after constructing the
first astronomical
telescope?
Moons of Jupiter (1609)
What college or university
founded in 1636 is the oldest
in the United States?
Harvard
Which 17th century French king
declared, “I am the state.”
Louis XIV
Benefits of the Strategy
Better than teacher led discussion or review
Equal Participation
Simultaneous response
Manages Impulsivity
Encourages good listening
Positive Interdependence
Tests Individual Accountability
Why Engaged Learning?
Behavior Management
Increased Motivation
Social Skills Instruction
Increased Retention
Habits of Mind
Habits of Mind
Persistence
Precision of
Language and
Thought
Managing
Impulsivity
Questioning
Flexibility of
Thinking
Using All the Senses
Checking for Accuracy
Drawing on Past
Experience
Listening
Metacognition
Creativity
Wonderment
Differentiated Instruction
Lessons that appeal to different
interests, ability levels, learning styles,
and cultures.
Planning for differences in your
classroom by process, content, and
product.
Culture
The interactive bulletin board and differentiated
instruction.
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Culture
Circles
How do
History and
Culture
Connect?
Multicultural
Fair
Social
Studies and
Literacy
Fanny
Packs and
the 2-4-8
Differentiated Instruction
Lessons that appeal to different
interests, ability levels, learning styles,
and cultures.
Planning for differences in your
classroom by process, content, and
product.
•What are the common characteristics of
different cultures?
Belief systems? Religion? Political ideals?
Language?
•How does the culture change to
accommodate different ideas and beliefs?
Culture to me means….
A compilation of characteristics, values,
and experiences that fosters the growth
and identity of an individual or society.
My Culture Circles
Country
Family
History
Lynn
Music
Religion
Hobbies
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A Reflection on the
Culture of Me
7-8
Fanny Packs
Lunch bags
Index Cards
Any information for sharing
Cultures
Countries
World Leaders
Historic Events
Fanny Pack
Projects
A Multicultural Experience:
An Opportunity for Authentic
Assessment
9-10
Images from a Multicultural Fair
Think / Pair/ Share
How can I use these things with my
students?
Numbered Heads Together
Culture Circles
Presentations on Cultures and Countries
Examples of Authentic Assessment
Service Learning connections with other
schools
Think/Pair/Share
Did I get any new ideas?
Mini books?
Data disks?
Numbered Heads Together?
Fanny Packs?
It’s Time for a Break!!
TPS
Take
10
When you return….Learn some great tips for working
with the textbook and for teaching academic
vocabulary!