#HASSchat Archive
A Twitter chat for K-12 teachers of the Humanities and Social Sciences, held on the last Thursday of every month at 7:00pm (Sydney, Australia).
Thursday February 23, 2017
3:00 AM EST
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Hi all! My name is Marco, and I'm a HSIE/RE teacher from SW Sydney!
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Q1 What is your view of History as a subject?
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A1 History, to me, is very important. We can use the past to better understand the future and present
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A1 I also see History as one of the 'cornerstone' subjects. Must be taught to all Ss, in my opinion
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A1: Love History as a subject. Loved learning it. Love teaching it. It's a key to democracy. Hi Marco!
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Q2 What view do your students have of History as a subject?
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A2 Ss seem to really love History. Much better uptake in senior years as well over other HASS subjects
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A2 Is it the gore? The wars? The weird bits? IDK, but they sure do love it!
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A2: I don't think my Ss ❤️ it like I do. They like the stories & the oddballs, but they don't see it as capital-I important.
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Q3 What teaching strategies/websites/apps can your suggest for other History teachers?
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Maybe? The bits that matter to me (skepticism, demand for evidence, parallels to today) aren't the bits that matter to them.
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A3 I love using the resources available through museums/galleries, etc
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A3: Love using the thinking routines from Harvard's Project Zero too. Gets the kids digging deeper. https://t.co/Fr5mCN0bBB
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some great timeline apps out now but not near a Mac to find the names
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Q4 How can we use History to prepare students for the future?
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A4 Use History to remember the past and to prepare for the future.
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A4 Regardless of a Ss future career, the study of History surely would give them a fuller idea of humanity
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A3 there's a pretty good Pompeii app out now too for teachers
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A4: Studying history gives you a complete, no-batteries-required BS detector. And we can never have enough of those!
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A4 Highlight cause and effect and global political and economic trends
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Kate. Primary Teacher from Canberra. A1. My Ss like history as detective work. Make conclusions about past using clues and debate
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The skills students learn in history are also valuable beyond school even if uni is not your path.
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Q5 How do you integrate literacy and numeracy in History?
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A5 Numeracy can be looked at easily with timelines and date ranges
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A5 Literacy in History is very important - need to learn the 'terms' Cause/effect, analysis
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A5: Primary sources are good, hard literacy work: complexity, tone, vocabulary, idiom. Rich opportunity for reading to learn.
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Q6 What is the future of History as a subject?
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A6 Really allows Ss the ability to see the world in a different light and provides them w/the ability to discern
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Thank you all but that's all we have time for! Join us next month on Thurs 30 March @ 7pm (Sydney) as we talk innovation in HASS
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A6: I have an optimistic and a pessimistic answer to this question, neither of which is particularly original. Sorry.
