Facts don’t create skills. Decisions do.
Being a great lecturer doesn’t make you a great history teacher. That’s something I wish I had known going into teaching. I spent my first year trying to be engaging — better slides, better stories, better delivery. Students paid attention. Test scores looked fine. Evaluations were solid. But when I asked a student to explain […]
We weren’t memorizing history. We were practicing how to think.
The most important class I ever took had no tests, no textbooks, and no lectures. My Greek history professor didn’t care if you memorized the year Alexander crossed the Bosphorus. He cared whether you understood why people did what they did — and whether you were willing to ask the same questions about yourself. He […]