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Reddit mentions of Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series)

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We found 4 Reddit mentions of Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series). Here are the top ones.

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Found 4 comments on Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series):

u/studentsofhistory · 1 pointr/historyteachers

Congrats on getting hired!!! I'd recommend a mix of PD/teaching books and content. When you get bored of one switch to the other. Both are equally important (unless you feel stronger in one area than the other).

For PD, I'd recommend: Teach Like a Pirate, Blended, The Wild Card, and the classic Essential 55. Another one on grading is Fair Isn't Always Equal - this one really changed how I thought about grading in my classes.

As far as content, you have a couple ways to go - review an overview of history like Lies My Teacher Told Me, the classic People's History, or Teaching What Really Happened, or you can go with a really good book on a specific event or time period to make that unit really pop in the classroom. The Ron Chernow books on Hamilton, Washington, or Grant would be great (but long). I loved Undaunted Courage about Lewis & Clark and turned that into a really great lesson.

Have a great summer and best of luck next year!!

u/MRRoberts · 1 pointr/AskReddit

If you haven't read them already, you would probably also enjoy Teaching What Really Happened and Lies Across America.

u/LowlyKnave · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I did have a phenomenal teacher that year. Inspired me to become a teacher too!

Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks & Get Students Excited About Doing History is an incredible resource for me.

u/spilledbeans · 1 pointr/Wishlist
  1. I guess that you chose Why is religion controversial as your final module.


  2. I think your second and third choices would be "Crime and Justice" and "Living Political Ideas."


  3. I think the most interesting would be "Why is religion controversial?" because I have a fascination with learning anything and everything I can about all religions.

  4. This book is on my Amazon wishlist:
    "Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History"

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807749915/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=IPABCKJDL859P&colid=1WH18WC7D3LUF