Rothschild Francis and The Fundamentals of Teaching History | Episode #42 - Megan DuVarney Forbes

Megan DuVarney Forbes (@toocoolformiddleschool) is a Social Studies teacher and has been in the profession for more than a decade. On this episode, Megan and I discuss the range of differences in the age range through junior high, the meaning of Social Studies and how we relay its message to our students, the importance of the ‘hook,’ tricking your junior high students into learning by accident, tips for speeding up the research process in humanities projects, not needing everything to be life changing for students to learn from it, how historical re-enactments go way too far, the story of Rothschild Francis in the Virgin Islands and the crafting of her Masters Thesis, Plato’s Cave, how this era’s history will be taught, her unexpected TpT best-seller, and, much more. Thank you for tuning in and hope you enjoy the show!Send us a textThoughts shared on the podcast are purely our own and do not represent the views of the Anglophone South School District or the relevant jurisdictions associated with my guests.