This Texas Educator Helps Students Think Like Historians

This Texas Educator Helps Students Think Like Historians

The Teachers Behind Texas History Welcome to week 5 of 10. Meet Kristina Miller Kristina watched students who once doubted themselves grow into confident researchers and presenters. Your donation provides immediate support for teachers to participate in Texas History Day and National History Day by offsetting travel costs, providing stipends for judges, supporting dedicated teachers…

Teaching Students To Think, Not What To Think

Photo by Ivan Aleksic on UnsplashThat virtually every account of history is a construction is a fact widely accepted by serious and credible historians.Historians select sources, decide which events are important, choose analytical frameworks, and inevitably bring certain assumptions to their work. In this sense, no historical account is entirely objective, and naive objectivism is certainly not a common position within historiography.Having sai…