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Brief but blunt and refreshing, this interview in TheAtlantic.com with Eric Foner talks about teaching history effectively.&nbsp; Here’s my favorite section (bold at the end is mine):
Do you have other specific advice for what teachers can do to more effectively instruct history students? 
The first thing I would say is that we have to get away from the idea that any old person can teach history. A lot of the history teachers in this country are actually athletic coaches. I mention this in class, and students always say, “Oh yeah, Coach Smith, he taught my history course.” Why? Well, Coach Smith is the football coach, and in the spring he’s not doing much, and they say, “Well, put him in the history course, he can do that.”
They wouldn’t put him in a French course, or a physics course. The number-one thing is, you have to know history to actually teach it. That seems like an obvious point, but sometimes it’s ignored in schools. Even more than that, I think it’s important that people who are teaching history do have training in history. A lot of times people have education degrees, which have not actually provided them with a lot of training in the subject. They know a lot about methodology. [That’s] important, but as I say, the key thing is really to love the subject, to be able to convey that to your students, and if you can do that, I think you’ll be a great teacher.
Read the whole thing here: “You Have to Know History to Actually Teach it”, David Cutler, January 10, 2014.

Brief but blunt and refreshing, this interview in TheAtlantic.com with Eric Foner talks about teaching history effectively.&nbsp; Here’s my favorite section (bold at the end is mine):
Do you have other specific advice for what teachers can do to more effectively instruct history students? 
The first thing I would say is that we have to get away from the idea that any old person can teach history. A lot of the history teachers in this country are actually athletic coaches. I mention this in class, and students always say, “Oh yeah, Coach Smith, he taught my history course.” Why? Well, Coach...

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