I am a senior history teacher at a private school in Queensland, Australia. I am very interested in sharing ideas and resources to support excellence in history teaching.
Thanks for the invite David. I will check it out. In the mean time, I am looking for a class anywhere in the world that is interesting in a skype long distance debate with my class this semester. I teach 8th grade U.S. History. Last year we debated against Terry Parent's class out of Hollywood, California. The topic was Democratic Republicans vs. Federalists. I would like to repeat this event yearly. Perhaps even more than once a year. Anyone interested...especially a class in a time zone that is closer to us, please email me at susan.gorman@gcisd.net. I am in Central Time Zone.
thanks for the invite. will try to check out your site asap. we are in the second week of our six week SF Freedom School summer program so a bit overwhelmed right now. I do have a team working on lesson plan ideas and we are hoping our group site will become a bit more active in the near future.
Thanks David. I will certainly take you up on your offer. I may not - probably won't - have a thing to share, but I'm always looking for new ideas and this is just the kind of "place" I was hoping to find. Sue
David,
I'm going to check it out! History is the only subject I do not teach, but I'll get my teammate Amy Ertel (also a member) on the site as well.
We will be sharing lots as the school year starts in August.
Jeremy
Hi David. Thanks and to be honest, the American system (from the way you described the Australian system) is pretty much the same. Looks like that we both have a similar interest in curriculum excellence, which in the American public system has its problems and I strongly prefer teaching outside the box. To answer your question, I am still in the learning process about tying educational technology to the history curriculum. I will stop by and check out the ideas that are posted and discover some that I would like to use next school year.
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Thanks so much for your welcome message. Sorry, I'm a little slow getting back with you. I can't wait to get involved in this ning.
Tammy Jones
I'm going to check it out! History is the only subject I do not teach, but I'll get my teammate Amy Ertel (also a member) on the site as well.
We will be sharing lots as the school year starts in August.
Jeremy
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