Lonnie's Learning Corner

Designing an authentic and powerful learning experience for your history students can sound daunting, especially as it was for me. When I first started to look back at my experience as a learner in a history classroom, one mode of instruction loomed over my head as a Pre-Service Teacher -Lecturing. This traditional instructional method has always been a staple in history classrooms, but it clouded my expectations for what a history classroom could look like.  My history classes have always needed those elements of creative expression and engagement to foster that active learning environment we are all too aware of for our own good but instead sufficed with the passive learning info-dumping method. As much as I cringe as a PST at the thought of wasting my bachelor's program tailored towards authentic learning experiences and cognitive development just to begin and end every class with a PowerPoint, I loved learning history as a student and was quite good at it even with this e...