http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/ More learning. Less schooliness. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:26:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/comment-page-1/#comment-11097 Beach-Side Thoughts on History, to My Students at Beyond School Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:43:39 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/?p=740#comment-11097 [...] have happened before B because B partly caused A, on and on. (I wrote about that a while back in Why History Isn’t Learned, and How Story Helps Change That.) I’ve tried really hard to give you that framework so you’re not the idiot I was for [...] [...] have happened before B because B partly caused A, on and on. (I wrote about that a while back in Why History Isn’t Learned, and How Story Helps Change That.) I’ve tried really hard to give you that framework so you’re not the idiot I was for [...]

]]> http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/comment-page-1/#comment-7795 Why Great Teachers Are Story Tellers at The Core Knowledge Blog Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:07:15 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/?p=740#comment-7795 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] FWIW, Dan, I wrote a piece called “Why History isn’t Learned, and How Story Helps Change That” that describes my own classroom approach to helping students understand that a) they probably don’t understand the story of history much at all, and b) they can learn that story by - what else - learning to tell it. It’s here: http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/ [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] FWIW, Dan, I wrote a piece called “Why History isn’t Learned, and How Story Helps Change That” that describes my own classroom approach to helping students understand that a) they probably don’t understand the story of history much at all, and b) they can learn that story by – what else – learning to tell it. It’s here: http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/ [...]

]]> http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/comment-page-1/#comment-7620 Education - Change.org: Teach Broad, or Teach Deep? Coverage versus Depth Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:36:43 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/?p=740#comment-7620 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] short-term, but learn next to nothing of value. (I do have evidence of that that I wrote about here, on how AP seniors knew shockingly little, and understood less, about history after 11 years of [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] short-term, but learn next to nothing of value. (I do have evidence of that that I wrote about here, on how AP seniors knew shockingly little, and understood less, about history after 11 years of [...]

]]> http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/comment-page-1/#comment-5626 Telling the Story Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:50:16 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/?p=740#comment-5626 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] August 29, 2008 Why History Isn [...] August 29, 2008 Why History Isn

]]> http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/comment-page-1/#comment-5580 a little history of the world gombrich - Dogpile Web Search Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:06:57 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/?p=740#comment-5580 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=0300108834&page=... • Found on Windows Live Why History Isn’t Learned, and How Story Helps Change That ... Jul 19, 2008 ... E.H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World: The Big Picture for Little [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=0300108834&page=... • Found on Windows Live Why History Isn’t Learned, and How Story Helps Change That … Jul 19, 2008 … E.H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World: The Big Picture for Little [...]

]]> http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/19/gombrich-world-history/comment-page-1/#comment-4996 Elizabeth Helfant Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:13:41 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/?p=740#comment-4996 Interesting post- I passed it on to my history department. We are talking about going to trimesters and trying to open the schedule up to allow for more student choice. Maybe let kids take 2 trimesters of World History that are survey and then choice a trimester of something that interests them from a variety of options. Maybe get bold and make the entire 9th world history year a thematic set of trimester options (like Revolution, Human Rights, Sacred Beliefs) Curious what you think? Interesting post- I passed it on to my history department. We are talking about going to trimesters and trying to open the schedule up to allow for more student choice. Maybe let kids take 2 trimesters of World History that are survey and then choice a trimester of something that interests them from a variety of options. Maybe get bold and make the entire 9th world history year a thematic set of trimester options (like Revolution, Human Rights, Sacred Beliefs)
Curious what you think?

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