Teaching Thought 108

Teaching Thought #108

Contextualize content with timelines.

I’m stealing this hack from James Alan Sturtevant, a high school history teacher. Here is his website where he posts his work and thoughts on teaching.

Kelsey Johnson strongly recommended this when I stopped by the media center to grab some summer readings from our professional development library.

Hacking Engagement Again: 50 Teacher Tools That Will Make Students Love Your Class.

Hack 51 - Contextualize . . . Contextualize . . . Contextualize . . . use timelines to help contextualize information. I'm going to have students do this with their individual novels in College Comp I as well as with The Ghost Map.

Here is a link to the website Sturtevant uses.