How To Improve Your Teaching Skills

If you are a teacher and you want to improve your teaching skills, then you should know that there are various important things that you will have to focus on. It is always necessary for you to go through every single detail that will help you in the right way. There are plenty of important things that you need to keep in mind so you can avoid all the problems that you are facing. Finding the right way to improve your teaching skills can be a difficult task. However, if you are going through multiple factors that matter the most, then you will be able to make things easier and better for yourself. 

We will be discussing few important things that you need to keep in mind so you can avoid all the problems that you are facing. Let’s have a look at how you can make things easier and better for yourself. 

Be brief while teaching

First of all, you will have to be brief when you are teaching. If you are brief in your teaching methods, then you will be able to deliver the correct knowledge to your students. It is one of the most important things that you will have to keep in mind so you can avoid all the problems that you are facing. Make sure that you are working on your teaching method and focusing on all the important things that will help you in the right way. By focusing on your teaching method, you will be able to come up with a great solution. 

Provide directions to the students

The next thing that you will have to do is to focus on providing directions to the students. If you are providing the right directions to the students, then it will become a lot easier for you to improve their learning. Make sure that you are motivating your students to choose the right career path. It is the perfect way to proceed so you can avoid all the problems that you are facing. 

Become a model for your students

Make sure that you are becoming a model for your students so they can look up to you. It is the right way to proceed when you are trying to improve your teaching skills. If you are becoming a role model for the kids, then you will be able to set the right path for them. 

-Brian Carroll CWU

US Military History

The historical backdrop of the United States Army started in 1775. From its arrangement, the United States Army has been the essential land-based piece of the United States Armed Forces. The Army's primary duty has been in battling land fights and military occupation. The Corps of Engineers additionally has a noteworthy job in controlling waterways inside the United States. The Continental Army was established in light of a requirement for expert officers in the American Revolutionary War to battle the attacking British Army. 

Until the 1940s, the Army was generally little in peacetime. In 1947, the Air Force turned out to be totally autonomous of the Army Air Forces. The Army was under the control of the War Department until 1947, and from that point forward the Defense Department. The U.S. Armed forces battled the Indian Wars of the 1790s, the War of 1812 (1812– 15), American Civil War (1861– 65), Spanish– American War (1898), World War I (1917– 18), World War II (1941– 45), Korean War (1950– 53) and Vietnam War (1965– 71). Following the Cold War's end in 1991, Army has concentrated basically on Western Asia and furthermore participated in the 1991 Gulf War and war in Iraq, and the war in Afghanistan.

At the point when the American Revolutionary War started in April 1775, the pilgrim progressives did not have a military. Beforehand, every settlement had depended upon the local army, set aside a few minutes regular citizen officers. The underlying requests from Congress approved ten organizations of marksmen. The principal full regiment of Regular Army infantry, the Third Infantry Regiment, was not framed until June 1784. After the war, the Continental Army was immediately disbanded in light of the American doubt of standing armed forces, and unpredictable state civilian armies turned into the new country's sole ground armed force, except for a regiment to watch the Western Frontier and one battery of big guns guarding West Point's munititions stockpile.

Amid the War of 1812, an attack of Canada fizzled, and U.S. troops were not able to prevent the British from consuming the new capital of Washington, D.C. In any case, the Regular Army, under Generals Winfield Scott and Jacob Brown, demonstrated they were proficient and equipped for overcoming a noteworthy intrusion by the standard British Army in the Niagara crusade of 1814. Somewhere in the range of 1815 and 1860, the fundamental job of the U.S. Armed force was battling Native Americans in the West in the American Indian Wars, and keeping an eye on coast big guns stations at real ports.

-Brian D. Carroll

February: Black History Month

Timeline

The history of African-Americans begins with slavery, the fate of slaves in the United States would divide the nation during the Civil War. After the war, the racist legacy of slavery would persist, spurring movements of resistance, through it all, black leaders, artists, and writers would emerge and help shape the character and identity of a nation.

February is dedicated as Black History Month, honoring the triumphs and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, including the civil rights movement and their artistic, cultural and political achievements.

Why Is Black History Month In February? 

The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week of February to be “Negro History Week”.

Enthusiasm

Negro History Week was met with an enthusiastic response; it prompted the creation of black history clubs, an increase in interest among teachers, and interest from progressive whites. Negro History Week grew in popularity throughout the following decades, with mayors across the United States endorsing it as a holiday.

African-American history

It is the part of American history that looks at the African-Americans or Black Americans in the United States.

Although previously marginalized, African-American history has gained ground in school and university curricula and gained wider scholarly attention since the late 20^th century. The black history that pre-dates the slave trade is rarely taught in schools and is almost never acknowledged. As a result, many African-Americans grow up believing that slavery is the only event to occur in their history before the civil rights movement, which is not accurate.

Of the 10.7 million Africans who were brought to the Americas until the 1860s, 450 thousand were shipped to what is now the United States.

Criticism

Black History Month often sparks an annual debate about the continued usefulness and fairness of a designated month dedicated to the history of one race. Criticisms include questions over whether it is appropriate to confine the celebration of black history to one month, as opposed to integration of black history into the mainstream education the rest of the year. Another criticism is that contrary to the original inspiration for Black History Month, which was a desire to redress the manner in which American schools failed to represent black historical figures as anything other than slaves or colonial subjects, Black History Month reduces complex historical figures to overly simplified objects of hero worship. Other critics refer to the celebration as racist.

-Brian D. Carroll

Herodotus - Father of History

Herodotus became a historic Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus within the Persian Empire. He's regarded for having written the book The Histories, an in-depth document of his "inquiry" at the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars. 

He’s widely taken into consideration to had been the first creator to have dealt with historic topics using several systematic investigation techniques especially, by gathering his substances and then critically arranging them right into a historiographical narrative. On account of this, he's frequently known as "the Father of History", a name first conferred on him with the aid of the primary-century BC Roman orator Cicero.

Scholar Robin Waterfield comments on Herodotus' early life:

“Herodotus was not a native of Athens. He was born in Halicarnassus (the modern Turkish city of Bodrum), about the time of the Persian Wars. Halicarnassus was a Dorian town with substantial intermarriage among its Greek, Carian, and Persian populations...If the later ancient reports that have come down to us are correct, his family was exiled during the troubled years after the Persian Wars, and as a very young man, Herodotus may have lived on the island of Samos. His occasional comments in the Histories show us that he traveled widely around the world of the east Mediterranean. We do not know when and how the Histories were first written down; very likely, however, they arose out of recitations or readings that he gave over a number of years in other Greek cities and in Athens at the height of its imperial power.”

Source of information - In preparing his history, Herodotus’ sources of information included predecessors work but most of his work was broadly complemented through the knowledge from his extensive travels.

Although Herodotus' terrific work does, in fact, comprise a few genuine inaccuracies, he does seem to have striven for accuracy. The whole work being a formidable try to present the ancient context of the Greek rivalry with Persia.

Herodotus’ work - The writing of Herodotus's great work, the Histories (the name is simply a transliteration of a Greek word that means primarily "inquiries" or "research"). His fame was so great that many different cities (Athens and Thurii among them) claimed to be the site of his funeral and grave and monuments were erected in his honor. The lasting significance of his work continues to be appreciated by millions of people today and he is considered a primary source for reliable information on the ancient world he observed and wrote about.

-Brian Carroll