With both a B.A. and M.A. in history, I’ve been teaching over a decade. I started in Florida, teaching middle school, high school, and eventually adjuncting at a local university. In 2016 I moved to Dalian, China to teach Internationally. In 2022, I my wife and I moved to Shanghai and I started teaching at Concordia International School. I also run National History Day China as the affiliate Coordinator.
I am passionate about history and teaching historical thinking skills. Facts and memorization are not what make learning fun and certainly not what attracted me to history.
I believe teachers should always be improving their craft and looking for new and exciting ways of reaching students. A critical part of this is reflecting on your own practice. This blog is my next effort to try and do both of these things while learning a new skill.
Thanks for reading, I hope you find something interesting or useful. Let me know if you do!
-Shane Twaddell
