I taught Asian History in High School.
History is not the kind of subject that kids would usually find interesting. I hated that subject myself when I was in High School. And little did I know that I will become a teacher someday… much less a History teacher for that matter.
History is the kind of subject that you always find so relaxing… so calming… so comforting because you tend to fall asleep during this period. I usually get reprimanded by my History teacher back in High School because she always caught me sleeping on my desk in the middle of the discussion.
History is the kind of subject that kids would usually skip… play hookie… or drop out because it’s boring. I usually got an F on tests and quizzes because I can’t memorize important dates, events and significant people who made significant impact in history.
And so I taught History subject in High School.
Equipped with my personal bitter-and-not-so-promising-nor-noteworthy experience with the infamous subject, I tried to innovate. I tried to make learning History fun and interesting. I was able to make it more interactive and exciting. I made it more enjoyable for fear that my students would also fall asleep in the middle of my discussion. I can’t afford to give Karma a chance on my class.
One of the innovations that I injected in my lesson planning is the Election Season. I let my students have a mock election as an activity where they were able to experience how to register as voters, campaign as political candidates, count votes as election staffers, and stay vigilant as citizens waiting for the result of the election.
It was a learning experience for both my students and me. Election season is here again and in a week’s time, a new President will assume power to lead one of the most powerful nations in the world. Looking back I remember that I always taught my students at the end of the culminating activity only one thing… “What you learned now is not just a lesson for today but rather, a preparation for the future.”
Our Youth is the future leaders of our nation. If we will be able to instill good values and well-grounded principles and ideals in their early age, we can be sure that we will have the best people to lead us. And History will no longer be just a boring subject but an important venue in creating an ideal society.
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As America wrote it’s history it wrote it to favor it and make it look good. That’s why it’s history looks different than the American history written by, say, the English.
There is a lot of nonsense and false statements in American history. For example they do not truthfully state things like, “We were a bunch of thugs that came to this country and killed a lot of its natives so we could steal their land.”
Everywhere those christian thugs go that is what they are trying to do. Just in more sneaky ways these days, but they’ll still kill for it if they need to, they think they are doing gods will. Spirit thinks they are a bunch of fucking thugs.
The political system and so called government in America is not for the people, but for the rich and powerful.
And the people are stupid anyway, they vote with the nine year old in them.
Life here is like a can of mixed nuts, the big ones work their way to the top and that is who we are stuck with voting for.
And if we do get a decent one we can’t keep him/her. And this bullshit constant election cycle is just a big money machine for some, but not us.
And there is not a good government anywhere on this planet that I know of. Do you know of a benevolent monarchy? Or what I call Communityisum?
I don’t think these monkeys are wise enough to rule themselves yet and America is a good example of that, it is just a failed experiment.
Well, being as you are married I won’t suggest kissing your tits again, ha ha ha.
Peaceful paths, welcome to America where they run amok fucking up.
I hated history too, except when we were on the civil war. How awful you wound up teaching a subject you hated! That would be very hard to do.
my fave subject back in high school was history
maybe bacause i didn’t need to analyze anything. just have to memorize dates and places and names haha!
Hi! You will be my favorite teacher if I were still in High School. I love history. That was my favorite subject. I had the whole world history memorized right from the big bang theory to the end!
Hi Ruthi, I share your feelings about history a boring class, oh well, sometimes. As long as I memorized everything from the book, it was okay, so that was one subject in high school I know what my grade would be the moment i stepped out of the room after a test. I do not have problems with memorization when I was younger, I do not like to memorize but I find it the easiest thing to do. But now that I am older, I think memorization would be the hardest thing to do
Just give me problems to analyze 
Anyway, I love the part in history that we had debates, I always looked forward to that activity, the only activity in history probably that would make me awake all the time
i hated math. dearly. now i am into accounting. lols!
that, i guess, is our karma.
True. History can really be a boring subject. When I was in high school, my interest in History is greatly influenced by the teacher. I tend to pay more attention to teachers like you who put a twist to the daily lesson.
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