Category: Pedagogy
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Teaching Writing in History Classes
This is the first post of what I hope will be many posts where I ruminate on the experience of teaching writing in history classes. I find myself thinking about this topic a lot, and I know that others also think about it a lot, and yet I find that the published scholarship on this…
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Government Shutdowns as Class Activity
On two occasions this semester, faculty at my institution had to grapple with the possibility that if the government shut down, all civilian faculty would be furloughed for an indeterminate amount of time, while our students continued to come to class. So we had to create contingency plans for our students to mitigate learning loss…
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It’s Going OK
Over the past few days, I’ve been wrestling with a bizarre type of guilt: guilt that things are working. Like everyone, I moved my classes online after spring break at George Mason University. I teach two classes in the history department, one a 46-person class called “The Digital Past,” and one a 13-person topics in…