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Rick Holtz - Short Essay C
With the help of McRAH, I now feel prepared to address the following challenges in my teaching.
They are for me to become confident and comfortable in using innovative
and non-traditional multi-media resources, artifacts and documents
as well as new teaching strategies that will enable students to become
active / enthusiastic learners of American History, ultimately allowing
each student through imaginative, creative lessons and hands-on activities
to become excited in learning about America's story. Two, I want my
students to study how past Americans had to deal with overcoming challenges
of crisis situations in their struggle to survive, succeed and care
for one another. I want them to be able to relate themes of care and
caring to their own lives constructing and making their personal connection
to American History. Finally, I want students to overcome their fears
of studying history from the traditional chronological sense of dates,
events, and personalities, and instead be able to look at the broad
scope of American History as divided by themes. I want students to
create and construct their own definitive space and place in American
History, discovering in the process what special qualities have made
the United States the greatest nation to be a citizen of and the importance
they each have in their daily expressions of good, ethical and moral
character to continue America's legacy of greatness. Through meeting
these 3 above-mentioned challenges, I believe students will raise
not only their self-awareness about America's past, present and future,
but also discover their individual importance to the larger roles
they will play as America's story continues.
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