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"Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?": Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12
Bruce Lesh
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Description for "Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?": Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12
Paperback. Bruce Lesh has refined a method of teaching history that mirrors the process used by historians, where students are taught to ask questions of evidence and develop historical explanations. In this book he shows teachers how to successfully implement his methods in the classroom. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 187 x 28. Weight in Grams: 510.
Every major measure of students' historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach historylecture and memorization. Over the last fifteen years, Bruce has refined a method of teaching history that mirrors the process used by historians, where students are taught to ask questions of evidence and develop historical explanations. And now in his new book 'Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer? he shows teachers how to successfully implement his methods in the classroom. Students may ... Read more
Every major measure of students' historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach historylecture and memorization. Over the last fifteen years, Bruce has refined a method of teaching history that mirrors the process used by historians, where students are taught to ask questions of evidence and develop historical explanations. And now in his new book 'Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer? he shows teachers how to successfully implement his methods in the classroom. Students may ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stenhouse Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781571108128
SKU
V9781571108128
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Ref
99-25
About Bruce Lesh
Bruce Lesh has been a teacher and department chair for eighteen years at Franklin High School in Reisterstown, Maryland. A past president of the Maryland Council for the Social Studies and current vice-chair of the National Council for History Education, Bruce teaches American history and advanced placement U.S. politics and government. Additionally, he has published three units on teaching American ... Read more
Reviews for "Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?": Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12
"What the book intends to do, and what is does well, is provide a 'road map' for those who wish to teach historical thinking skills in the secondary classroom. Lesh has written a valuable book for history teachers at the secondary level." - The History Teacher "Teachers are shown how to teach history using interpretive questions and interrogative evidence ... Read more