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History teachers on all levels face a "steep hill to climb." A student's experience with history too often resembled my experience in 11th-grade history class, when instruction consisted of answering questions at the back of the chapter and taking a quiz on dates each Friday.
Over the years, I have been encouraged by more students coming to college with positive views of history. Last semester, more than a third of my freshmen students used words like "exciting' and "interesting" to describe their high school history class.See the full content of this document
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Teaching Inspires the Mind
For me, though, it was not until I got to another Wesleyan - Ohio Wesleyan - that committed teachers such as Anna Macias showed me that history c...
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