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Old 07-16-2011, 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
Vouchers.

And talk about lowest denominator, pick up a school history book and give it a once over occasionally.

Pete
Yeah, the teacher I mentioned hated those books. He made history fun. He would assign groups of us say, a Revolutionary War battle. One group would do Bunker Hill another Yorktown and so on. Then within each group he would name each one of us as a key person in that battle; "You're Washington, you're Cornwallis, you're Rochambeau, you're Nelson......Okay, how do you win this battle? American and French can collaborate, but you Brits are on your own."

This is who you are, this is your battle, your objective, these are the troops you have, the weaponry you have at your disposal, the terrain and weather conditions....Now, what do you do?

We would present our strategies when we were done. Then he would go over what really took place and grade us on how close we each came to the actual history. It was awesome. It grabbed your attention, stirred your imagination and made you use your brain. You learned strategic thinking, planning, teamwork, and along the way you learned the history.

I take it teachers like this are few and far between these days? Or are they out there....with their hands tied? If so, that is profoundly sad.

Dave
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