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Senior History ABQ (Queen’s, Winter 2025, Online)

January 20, 2025 to April 4, 2025

  • Category: ABQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Canadian and World Studies
  • Grades: Senior (grades 11-12)

Welcome to our journey through time. Never has History played a greater role on the world stage, although Herodotus might debate this observation. If we are the memory bearers for our society, then we have a challenging duty. Neil Postman remarks in Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979) that every teacher must be a History teacher. “To teach about the atom without Democritus, to teach political theory without Aristotle or Machiavelli, to teach music without Hayden, is to refuse our students access to The Great Conversation.” Will we play the judge or simply record what actually happened? Given Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, can we ever really know an event or personality?

Topics in this course include:
– Current historiography
– Problem-based Learning
– Webquests, and Alternative Assessment
– Handling controversial issues in the History class
– Critical thinking strategies
– Approaches for student accommodation and inclusion
– Program Design with respect to History
– Legal Issues and legislation
– Optimizing student motivation
– Accommodation for inclusion

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