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About Me: My name is Anthony Emilut, I am student of history with a passion for literature and creative writing. I'm currently a junior at TCNJ and hope to become a high school history teacher and possibly a professor someday. Besides always being one of my favorite subjects in school. History has intrigued me because the stories are based on real events. And I believe that learning and understanding the events of the past can help us in the present. Working as a paraprofessional in a high school history room gave me a desire to want to teach the subject myself. I strive as a future teacher to get students to not just learn from history but to appreciate it.
I chose inquiry-based learning because it gives students a much more active role in the classroom besides simply listening to the teacher talk. Inquiry based methods allow the students to ask the teacher questions and collaborate with their peers to find answers. I also chose to talk about antiracist pedagogy because even today race is such a sensitive issue for many students. Even if we can't totally solve this problem, we can fight against it.
Inquiry and Problem based Education
In an article titled "Improving on Past Practice: Embracing a new Direction in Secondary Social Studies Teaching and Learning" by Regine Randall and Joseph Marangell, they provide an example of how a teacher made an improvement in her classroom through implementing inquiry-based teaching strategies. For example, instead of having students simply take notes on her lessons and test them on the material every year. This teacher decided to begin her class by asking the students questions on the material. Then students would be asked to move around the room and talk over the answers with their peers. I believe this a great way to help maintain the student's interest and focus on the subject your teaching, as well as exercise their cooperation and socialization skills.
Inquiry Based learning involves sharing and group work. For example, If I asked the students a vague question like "what initiated the French Revolution?" I would have them divide into groups; each group would then provide their own unique answers. Then the groups would talk with each other and discuss their answers and try and settle on one.
Inquiry Based learning involves sharing and group work. For example, If I asked the students a vague question like "what initiated the French Revolution?" I would have them divide into groups; each group would then provide their own unique answers. Then the groups would talk with each other and discuss their answers and try and settle on one.
This video displays inquiry-based learning practices at Pittsfield Middle School. It provides an example in an English classroom of the teacher giving her students a vague question on existentialism. It is then up to them to work together to provide answers. Furthermore, in some cases the group's efforts to produce answers to the teacher's question may even go beyond the original intentions of the question.
This video displays inquiry-based learning practices at Pittsfield Middle School. It provides an example in an English classroom of the teacher giving her students a vague question on existentialism. It is then up to them to work together to provide answers. Furthermore, in some cases the group's efforts to produce answers to the teacher's question may even go beyond the original intentions of the question.
Antiracist Pedagogy
Antiracist Pedagogy
Being "antiracist" in a basic sense is someone who challenges all forms of racism including the act of "color blindness" or simply ignoring racial differences in people. Since schools have been places that have bred segregation towards minority and special ed students for decades, it may be worth striving for forming an antiracist identity. To be anti-racist in school though as a student or teacher, playing an active role in stopping racist acts. This is especially true for a white person who desires to be an ally according to William Smith and Ryan Crowly in their article. Additionally, antiracism involves talking about issues that make people uncomfortable, such as what Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 Project, which challenged the very principals that the United States were founded upon.
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This video offers a simpler definition of antiracism. A white Wisconsin teacher explains that in order for white students to grasp other cultures beyond their own, you must teach material made by non-whites.
This video offers a simpler definition of antiracism. A white Wisconsin teacher explains that in order for white students to grasp other cultures beyond their own, you must teach material made by non-whites.
This short clip offers a counter argument to antiracist practice. On the topic of "Black History Month", actor Morgan Freeman dismisses this holiday as meaningless, "black history is American history". He also tells interviewer Mike Wallace the way to combat racism is to stop talking about it, meaning just acknowledge everybody equally as an individual, not by their color. I believe this to also be an acceptable attitude for students to take in schools.
This short clip offers a counter argument to antiracist practice. On the topic of "Black History Month", actor Morgan Freeman dismisses this holiday as meaningless, "black history is American history". He also tells interviewer Mike Wallace the way to combat racism is to stop talking about it, meaning just acknowledge everybody equally as an individual, not by their color. I believe this to also be an acceptable attitude for students to take in schools.
Like the 1619 Project, Erica Dunbar's historical monograph Never Caught is another example of an important, more hidden piece of history that is kept out of high school classrooms. This is because it teaches you the realities of American slavery depicted in the North as well as an unsettling chapter in the story of George Washington going to less than legal means to recapture one of his young slaves.
Like the 1619 Project, Erica Dunbar's historical monograph Never Caught is another example of an important, more hidden piece of history that is kept out of high school classrooms. This is because it teaches you the realities of American slavery depicted in the North as well as an unsettling chapter in the story of George Washington going to less than legal means to recapture one of his young slaves.
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