Best of ... Teaching Strategies

Teaching Montana History began in 2008 as the Montana History and Heritage Education listserv and has been published as a blog since 2011. That's a long time--so as we approach the new year, I thought it would be fun to highlight some older posts. Earlier I highlighted posts on elementary resources. Today the focus is teaching strategies.

• Speaking and Listening Strategies: This post focuses on useful strategies for structuring meaningful class discussions, including gallery walks, concentric circles/speed dating, structured academic controversies, and Socratic circles.
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• Teaching Students to Ask Questions: Asking good questions is harder than most people think. This posts offers two starting points for helping students learn this important skill.
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• Visual Thinking Strategies--My New Favorite Technique: I've written a lot of posts on this over the year. Here's one.
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• Montana Newspapers and Chronicling America: Here are some strategies for getting students started in the digitized newspaper collections.