Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Election 2016 (NY Times)

This election is going down as the most odd elections in the history of the U.S. So it's important for teachers to teach about this topic. This article suggests a whole 4-part unit to teach students. Its first suggestion that teachers should teach there students is to introduce each of the candidates running, Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton. Secondly it suggests teachers should teach about the issues at stake. Next it suggests that teachers should show the students each candidates campaign, and there strategies to running them. Lastly it suggests that teachers should have the students think about and talk about it themselves.


So the way teachers could teach about this would be to talk about some of the issues that Trump and Clinton debate about. For example, teachers can teach about gender and LGBT issues in the debate to help students themselves get a better grasp on the topic and help them learn about which candidate has the best plan to resolve this issue. Other topics could be about race/ethnicity, religion, economy, war, etc. All these topics are all important and need to be taught to students in schools by there teachers.  

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