A Teacher's Perspective on History

Erin is a passionate champion of inquiry based learning. She collects old history books because she enjoys seeing how the stories we tell change over time. Her 8th graders do self directed research in which they inspect, investigate and interrogate their textbooks. They pick a chapter from their textbook choosing a time period that interests them and a theme in history that they see as underrepresented. Then they go off to rewrite it. It's a huge light bulb moment, Erin told me. Even if you're not a teacher by profession, you probably have roles in which you spend time educating others whether as a parent, a mentor, a friend or a co-league.