My friend Caleb dropped the first half hour of his edit of our conversation. In it is the part where he observes that we need to be careful about assuming our students have the same type of reaction to history as we do. He said something to the effect that he has to remind himself he was the “weird kid” in class who was super interested in what the teacher was droning on about. I was the same, of course. Always sitting in the front row. Reacting to the professor almost as if we were having a one-on-one conversation. Asking and answering questions.
I did one history unit when I went to university, I am a philosophy major. So, reading your experience of teaching students like me was very interesting indeed. I will admit I wasn’t the first to answer questions in that history unit, but I did find it to be a very eye opening unit.
This was a very interesting read.
I did one history unit when I went to university, I am a philosophy major. So, reading your experience of teaching students like me was very interesting indeed. I will admit I wasn’t the first to answer questions in that history unit, but I did find it to be a very eye opening unit.
Not only the 1840s, it seems to me that the 1850s and 1860s resonate too.