Welcome to the official 2013 class blog of SEED 415, Social Science Special Methods. This blog is the place to record your reflections on the class and to exchange ideas on making social studies classes what they should be--the most interesting, most exciting, most important classes your students will take.To get us off to a good start, please share here one of things you remember best/enjoyed most in any of your high school or college history classes. Anything that particularly helped lead you to choosing history/social studies as a major?
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I remember my 7th grade social studies teacher. He was a great inspiration to me and actually attempted to teach instead of hand out worksheets. Simply pulling down a map and explaning the british campaign plan during the revolutionary war was enough to spark a massive interest in History for me.
ReplyDeleteIn college, I have enjoyed all the great stories that history has to offer. Almost every professor in the history department shares the interesting tidbits along with the important information, and in most instances the two go hand-in-hand. Overall, the passion for history that each of them has displayed has made history, beyond a doubt, the most intersting subject that I have taken.
ReplyDeleteIn College it is pretty hard to overlook Grettler coming into class with an axe and reading the account of Nat Turner in class. Its something that I might not remember every little detail from that incident but I Will remember the most important details from that class.
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In college I've learn from many professors that really love history, each adding their own unqiue spin on history. Whether its from the jokes they tell to how they present their material, I have observe different styles of teaching. The most memorable was in cold war politics with Dias. We were talking about figures like Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, while later I watched a TV show that included both and their personality. So, I showed Dias that episode of Futurama and he played it in class and tied it in with our lecture. I thought that was pretty cool.
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I think it was my first 100% on a social studies test in the 5th grade was what sparked my interest in history early on. From there I enjoyed everything history. My favorite books were always biographies, never cared much for sci-fi. The connections between history, culture, and politics has always been clear to me…and exciting to learn about. If you want to understand your favorite bands, you have to listen to the musicians they site as influences. If you want to know what’s going on in Syria, then you have to know who Pres. Assad’s dad was, and how he came to power, and it doesn’t hurt to understand their tribal system from 100 years ago. There is a story behind everything, and that’s what excites me about history.
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