Thomas H Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1605377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas H Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas H |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3460-776X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is the United States Exceptional? Inviting Students to Consider American Democracy, Liberty, Opportunity, and Optimism During Troubled Times
This article invites middle and high school social studies teachers and students to address the question, "Is the United States Exceptional?" We define American exceptionalism as the belief that the United States is qualitatively different from other nations based upon having some special virtue, ideology, or mission that makes it an outlier. We identify four themes or components of American exceptionalism: democracy, individual liberty, opportun…
Exploring the Nature, Facilitators, and Challenges of Program Coherence in a Case of Teacher Education Program Redesign Using Core Practices
Scholars have called for promoting coherence in teacher education programs. Such coherence is often depicted as a state to be achieved. This article reconceptualizes coherence as a dynamic process affected by the simultaneous organizational realities of unity, conflict, and fragmentation; it also aims to clarify factors that can facilitate or challenge the work of enhancing teacher education program coherence. Drawing on a case study of program-w…
Consensus Circle Presidential Rating
Political history lends itself to traditional patterns of teaching and learning in social studies such as students memorizing facts presented in lectures or textbooks. This article presents a recurring activity structure for teaching U.S. political history—Consensus Circle Presidential Rating (CCPR)—which requires students to read across different sources, form and defend a judgment of a presidency’s impact, and engage in persuasion and consensus…
How Secondary History Teachers Use and Think About Museums
Museums have great potential to help secondary students develop a deep understanding of the past; however, we know little about what history teachers actually do or want to accomplish when they utilize museums. In this study, the authors draw on questionnaire and interview data from 94 secondary history teachers in Connecticut in an effort to understand teachers' objectives, practices, and dilemmas in using museums. The results indicate that whil…
Features and strategies of supervisor professional community as a means of improving the supervision of preservice teachers
Knight at the Museum
This article presents an approach that teachers can use to strengthen students’ ability to make sense of the past at museums. Specifically, we propose a photography exercise to help students to learn from museums and to view museums critically, weighing both the objective realities and subjective interpretations offered by museums. To get the most from a lifetime of museum-going and history learning, students should learn to view museums as refle…
Socializing Future Social Studies Teachers and K-12 Students
When, if ever, should social studies teacher educators and K-12 teachers seek to inculcate specific values, attitudes, and beliefs in their students? To address this question, the author offers a case from his own practice as a social studies teacher educator, illustrating how he promoted critical and divergent thinking during the first half of one class session, and then pushed students toward a convergent set of beliefs during the second half. …
What Research Tells Us About the Impact and Challenges of Smaller Learning Communities
In the United States, considerable financial and human resources have been devoted to breaking some large high schools into smaller learning communities (SLCs). This article reviews research that compares SLCs to comprehensive high schools on a variety of measures. Extant research neither supports nor refutes the promise of SLCs to improve academic achievement; however, research does suggest that SLCs can improve attendance, graduation rates, and…
How the structure and focus of teachers' collaborative activities facilitate and constrain teacher learning
How the structure and focus of teachers' collaborative activities facilitate and constrain teacher learning
How Secondary History Teachers Use and Think About Museums
Museums have great potential to help secondary students develop a deep understanding of the past; however, we know little about what history teachers actually do or want to accomplish when they utilize museums. In this study, the authors draw on questionnaire and interview data from 94 secondary history teachers in Connecticut in an effort to understand teachers' objectives, practices, and dilemmas in using museums. The results indicate that whil…
Features and strategies of supervisor professional community as a means of improving the supervision of preservice teachers
Knight at the Museum
This article presents an approach that teachers can use to strengthen students’ ability to make sense of the past at museums. Specifically, we propose a photography exercise to help students to learn from museums and to view museums critically, weighing both the objective realities and subjective interpretations offered by museums. To get the most from a lifetime of museum-going and history learning, students should learn to view museums as refle…
Is the United States Exceptional? Inviting Students to Consider American Democracy, Liberty, Opportunity, and Optimism During Troubled Times
This article invites middle and high school social studies teachers and students to address the question, "Is the United States Exceptional?" We define American exceptionalism as the belief that the United States is qualitatively different from other nations based upon having some special virtue, ideology, or mission that makes it an outlier. We identify four themes or components of American exceptionalism: democracy, individual liberty, opportun…
Exploring the Nature, Facilitators, and Challenges of Program Coherence in a Case of Teacher Education Program Redesign Using Core Practices
Scholars have called for promoting coherence in teacher education programs. Such coherence is often depicted as a state to be achieved. This article reconceptualizes coherence as a dynamic process affected by the simultaneous organizational realities of unity, conflict, and fragmentation; it also aims to clarify factors that can facilitate or challenge the work of enhancing teacher education program coherence. Drawing on a case study of program-w…
What Research Tells Us About the Impact and Challenges of Smaller Learning Communities
In the United States, considerable financial and human resources have been devoted to breaking some large high schools into smaller learning communities (SLCs). This article reviews research that compares SLCs to comprehensive high schools on a variety of measures. Extant research neither supports nor refutes the promise of SLCs to improve academic achievement; however, research does suggest that SLCs can improve attendance, graduation rates, and…
How the structure and focus of teachers' collaborative activities facilitate and constrain teacher learning
Socializing Future Social Studies Teachers and K-12 Students
When, if ever, should social studies teacher educators and K-12 teachers seek to inculcate specific values, attitudes, and beliefs in their students? To address this question, the author offers a case from his own practice as a social studies teacher educator, illustrating how he promoted critical and divergent thinking during the first half of one class session, and then pushed students toward a convergent set of beliefs during the second half. …
What Research Tells Us About the Impact and Challenges of Smaller Learning Communities
In the United States, considerable financial and human resources have been devoted to breaking some large high schools into smaller learning communities (SLCs). This article reviews research that compares SLCs to comprehensive high schools on a variety of measures. Extant research neither supports nor refutes the promise of SLCs to improve academic achievement; however, research does suggest that SLCs can improve attendance, graduation rates, and…
Features and strategies of supervisor professional community as a means of improving the supervision of preservice teachers
Knight at the Museum
This article presents an approach that teachers can use to strengthen students’ ability to make sense of the past at museums. Specifically, we propose a photography exercise to help students to learn from museums and to view museums critically, weighing both the objective realities and subjective interpretations offered by museums. To get the most from a lifetime of museum-going and history learning, students should learn to view museums as refle…
How Secondary History Teachers Use and Think About Museums
Museums have great potential to help secondary students develop a deep understanding of the past; however, we know little about what history teachers actually do or want to accomplish when they utilize museums. In this study, the authors draw on questionnaire and interview data from 94 secondary history teachers in Connecticut in an effort to understand teachers' objectives, practices, and dilemmas in using museums. The results indicate that whil…
Consensus Circle Presidential Rating
Political history lends itself to traditional patterns of teaching and learning in social studies such as students memorizing facts presented in lectures or textbooks. This article presents a recurring activity structure for teaching U.S. political history—Consensus Circle Presidential Rating (CCPR)—which requires students to read across different sources, form and defend a judgment of a presidency’s impact, and engage in persuasion and consensus…
Exploring the Nature, Facilitators, and Challenges of Program Coherence in a Case of Teacher Education Program Redesign Using Core Practices
Scholars have called for promoting coherence in teacher education programs. Such coherence is often depicted as a state to be achieved. This article reconceptualizes coherence as a dynamic process affected by the simultaneous organizational realities of unity, conflict, and fragmentation; it also aims to clarify factors that can facilitate or challenge the work of enhancing teacher education program coherence. Drawing on a case study of program-w…
Is the United States Exceptional? Inviting Students to Consider American Democracy, Liberty, Opportunity, and Optimism During Troubled Times
This article invites middle and high school social studies teachers and students to address the question, "Is the United States Exceptional?" We define American exceptionalism as the belief that the United States is qualitatively different from other nations based upon having some special virtue, ideology, or mission that makes it an outlier. We identify four themes or components of American exceptionalism: democracy, individual liberty, opportun…
Psychology (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Social studies (3 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (3 works)