This month, we're recruiting a new cohort of high school teachers to join our Teacher Leaders in History program. This has had me thinking about best practices for teaching high school history and reminded me of a series of posts I read some years ago on Glenn Wiebe's amazing History Tech blog on interactive lecturing.
As you probably know even better than I, students often tune out during lectures. At the same time, lectures can be an incredibly efficient way to deliver content knowledge to students. What to do?
1. Consider "micro-lectures." Focus on a particular concept or skill to provide an overview or discuss complex cause and effect.
2. Consider the 10-2 strategy, which, according to Glenn, "has the instructor taking ten minutes for 'didactic' lecturing on specific facts and then providing two minutes for ... 'buzz sessions' – small group and whole-class discussions around a question or problem. You may have heard this as the Chunk and Chew strategy."
See more from Glenn on lecturing in this three-part series on interactive lecturing.
P.S. If you teach social studies in high school and want to help improve social studies education statewide, consider applying to join our Teacher Leaders in History Program. Application deadline is April 7.
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