For Teachers of World History

By , September 5, 2023 12:31 pm

Hello, I’m Risa Gluskin. You probably know that since you’ve found this website.

In 2023/24, after 25 years of teaching, I took a year off to rest, relax, and share my experience. I get a lot of requests through this blog to share my materials, so it seemed natural to me to expand on that.

I used this blog to link to materials designed to help you teach world history at the high school level. Please go to the “For Teachers of World History” tab. Below you’ll find a running list of posts and the topics they covered. There are a lot of links for you!!!

Watch this short intro.

Topics

Art and/of Teaching (Sept. 2023)

We’ve all heard the expression, “the art of teaching.” What about art and teaching? By that I don’t mean teaching art history. In a nutshell, this is the core of my approach to sharing what I have learned these past 25 years about teaching the fascinating and fun subject of world history.

I’ve long considered myself uncreative and unartistic (mandatory grade 7 art was my worst mark ever, lower than math). However, during the pandemic I started to learn how to paint. I’ve continued on and off over the last three plus years. I’m still rather basic and progressing slowly, but I enjoy it and have more recently devoted a lot of time to it, especially watching YouTube videos of other people teaching me.

This new painting hobby (and its accompanying skill development) has helped me to recognize that I am somewhat creative. Teaching and planning courses are creative acts.

Since I want my year off to be meaningful, I’ve decided to frame my “sharing” through an examination of the parallels between learning to paint and learning to teach. Today’s post is just the introduction but I hope it will guide me in the weeks and months to come. Please stay tuned here since I don’t use social media.

Zim art sculpture

Parallels

Parallels (Topics)

This is what I painted in May 2020 when I first started. It was a lot for me just to use a brush.
Here’s something from 2023 when I started my year off – an orca from a tutorial from The Art Sherpa, someone who really understands how to teach (sadly she is deceased now).

Thank you for starting this journey with me. I will address, ponder, and explore the above topics throughout the year.

Summer 2025 – from tutorial by Art Sherpa.
Let’s unlock World History together. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.

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