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re: Hamilton-documentary vs show based on history?

Posted by:	ntjvy 04:51 pm EDT 10/30/15
In reply to:	re: Hamilton-documentary vs show based on history? - MikeR 04:37 pm EDT 10/30/15

I agree! As a history teacher, the idea that it shouldn't act like a teaching tool is beyond my understanding. It shouldn't be used as the ONLY teaching tool to teach about the era, but it is certainly a valuable teaching tool. Also, competent teachers will not only follow up with lessons, but will have had their students practicing source assessment skills prior to introducing it in the classroom. My high school juniors watched the clip from the White House Poetry Jam and then spent time assessing the values and limitations of the clip for history students, a skill that they also practice with textbooks, lectures, documentaries and primary source documents. If you teach kids how to think for themselves and provide them tools for skillful historical analysis you significantly broaden your teaching tool kit. Without the skills you have to eliminate all sorts of resources from the classroom. (World War II propaganda or the book All Quiet on the Western Front come to mind off the bat.)

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