Reflecting on Your Practice - What are some specific strategies
you have used to prepare students for group work? - What are
some topics in your course that lend themselves to using primary
and secondary sources? To research and group discussion? To
group presentations? - What are some overarching themes that you
stress or that repeatedly surface as you study different world
regions? - Why is it important to teach about migration? Taking
It Back to Your Classroom - Ask students to interview family
members about how and why they or their ancestors came to the
United States. Work with students to develop interview questions
that help determine the "push/pull" factors involved in their
decision to relocate. Students may want to explore Ellis Island
resources. Students could also interview people they know who
have immigrated themselves. - Have students participate in a
model United Nations (UN) program, taking the role of a
diplomatic representative to the UN from one of the member
nations. Model UN programs can