ABSTRACT
This practical handbook is designed to help anyone who is preparing to teach a world history course - or wants to teach it better. It includes contributions by experienced teachers who are reshaping world history education, and features new approaches to the subject as well as classroom-tested practices that have markedly improved world history teaching.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|19 pages
Teaching World History
part II|36 pages
Conceptualizing the Course
chapter 6|10 pages
Conversations Between Past and Present
Thoughts on Teaching Current Events in a World History Classroom
chapter 7|8 pages
The Twenty-first-Century Classroom
Using Online Course Management Systems to Help Students Make the World's History Their Own
chapter 10|3 pages
Teaching the Long Nineteenth Century (1750–1914) in World History
A Document-Based Lesson and Approach
part |26 pages
Teaching Basics
chapter 11|4 pages
“I Can't Read This!”
Critical Thinking Strategies for Teaching Analytical Comparative Essays
chapter 13|7 pages
Discovering Global Patterns
How Student-Centered Internet Research Can Build a Genuine World History Perspective
part IV|22 pages
Planning
chapter 17|4 pages
Time Management and Student Ownership
How to Get Through Your Curriculum in the Time Allotted
part V|33 pages
Teaching Skills
chapter 21|3 pages
What Should Happen on the First Day in a World History Class?
What Do You Want to Do and How Do You Want to Accomplish It?
part |23 pages
Learning and Understanding
part VII|19 pages
Historiography
