Gamifying the History Classroom: A Black Death Choice Simulation

History class does not need to be boring, despite the stereotype in pop-culture. Indeed, who can forget the infamous scene from Farris Bueller’s Day Off and the cringe-worthy monotone economics lecture from Ben Stein? History does not need to be like this. One can still have depths of information, insight, and skill-development while having fun […]

Effectively Teaching Critical Thinking through Document Analysis: Formative Assessment, Backward Design, and the DBQ

The Document Based Question or DBQ is not often used in the average Social Science and History classroom. Advanced Placement (AP) classes use them as part of the learning and assessment process to prepare students for the AP Exam. Nevertheless, the average student and curriculum ought to use more DBQs however challenging they may be. […]

ONLINE DISCUSSION AND BUDDHISM: FLIPGRID & FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

AP World History has just gone through a significant redesign this year that has removed a lot of content and asks students to go deeper in matters related to global modern history. While Many teachers are understandably frustrated, as I have been at times in the last few months, I am taking this as an […]