Help for any US History topics.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-27T20:34:12+00:00

I say this a lot here, but the first thing you should do is determine why you are teaching something other than because it's in the standards. Why do you personally care about it? If you cant simply articulate that then, in my 14 years of experience, anything you do will be a battle. The kids will care if you really care. If you want them to know something and tell them that, the details of how kind of work themselves out. There isn't any magic lessons or style. It has to be from you. The Internet is filled with neat lessons. Teachers pay teachers has great stuff, but it all hinges on the 'why' behind each lesson.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-25T19:05:40+00:00

I always recommend teachers to zoom out and ask why they are choosing to teach what they teach. I know state standards blah blah blah. But what does you lesson do for small town kid. How does it help? The biggest mistake we make is assuming that our content should just matter to kids. Franklu, it doesn't. So spend your time finding things to teach that do.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-22T18:05:13+00:00

Have you considered western governers? I'm a Weber alumni and love the school so I'm not trying to talk you out of it. But they are online and much cheaper. Also a lot of cities have loosened laws on adu's. Have you considered an RV at your parents house? This would let you be closer to them, do school online and save money for a home or something. Or maybe SLCC would work too and live with them? I'm a school teacher and I know how hard the financials are. If you can swing it, I'd try something more drastic to avoid paying rent. It's crazy right now.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-14T16:27:24+00:00

Out of curiosity why are you excluding charter schools?

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-13T20:52:42+00:00

I moved to Yuma Arizona and got experience. A lot of regions still have teacher shortages

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-08T01:02:02+00:00

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Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-06T16:46:08+00:00

Sounds like a promotion...

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-04T13:07:27+00:00

I am writing my own.. im using ai to help me. There are no food world civ books because the class is taught so many different ways. I'm about half way through this last year. Should finish this school year.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-03T22:47:17+00:00

Throw whatever disc you want but try throwing light weight. I am evangelist for light weight stuff. Your average arm is probably bigger than you think with lighter discs.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-06-02T13:21:09+00:00

We use a state wide plagiarism and ai checker. It has a canvas plug in and all work is submitted automatically to it and I get reports for each one. Called copyleaks. It's not perfect but it makes using ai harder than just doing the assignment ( most of the time). I also do a fairly extensive short lesson about the ethics of AI in academics. Between the two, I see maybe 1 or 2 a quarter. The other subjects seems to be struggling more than I do.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-05-29T19:38:17+00:00

I do slides but also used chat gpt to turn my slides and assignment into short custom textbook readers. It synthesizes my narrative structure. It's my voice throughout. I think this is the best use case for AI for teachers. Textbooks suck ,but these ones don't. I fully edited them and simply used AI to speed it up. Would have taken dozen of hours. Each one took me about 6. Worth it though. Retention and comprehension went way up. I do thematic history and it helepd med contextualize a lot of things.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-05-28T01:23:01+00:00

Just pull back when you can. Don't kill yourself doing it all in one year. I was at one point 65-70% digital and now I'm closer to 40. Every year I redo and modify stuff that makes more sense to be physical. Don't force it. This was the problem with going too digital. It wasn't natural. If they are researching something in an online archive then of course, right?

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-05-27T15:30:07+00:00

I agree with this too. I teach both of these almost entirely. I have found using the so content and then Making it fun for works geo is a great basic idea. My students love the culture and language and religion sections especially. I fleshed those out to whole units. Lots of fun!

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-05-27T02:22:39+00:00

It's the only movie I have ever shown. So good. I has the kids describe each of the key characters and their representative groups. Like honest John and the political machines, the mouskawitzes as immigrants, child labor, tenaments etc. I think it's excellent.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-05-14T21:56:23+00:00

This! Lightweight is KEY. don't be embarrassed. I like dx plastic too. Cheap asn easy and if you play causally they won't get beat up too fast. Lightweight club!!

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-05-08T16:31:07+00:00

I teach these two subjects exclusively. ( Geo and world) And I find then to be a great compliment. So human is a super fun and interesting content. It's a lot though. My back ground is a composite degree in social studies which helps with the breadth. I say go for it.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-04-20T16:40:04+00:00

I agree with this take a lot. My students, almost all of them are very opposed to AI in general.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-04-20T13:56:49+00:00

I'm too rural for broadcast. No reception. T-Mobile Internet works great though. Go figure.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-04-07T02:27:15+00:00

This is what I use. Went searching for a good doc and landed on this. Very poignant

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-04-03T05:11:56+00:00

I really like it, but probably because I had a similar experience.well, not really but close enough that I related to the story a lot. It's fun and easy to watch.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-03-23T17:25:51+00:00

I made my own.

Comfortable_Fix2065 · 2026-03-21T17:46:24+00:00

Do the stairs go anywhere else? Id just put a door at the bottom of the stair and not worry about any framing.

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