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“Former FFTF Fellow Keith Erekson Receives Prestigious ‘Outstanding Teaching Award’ from the University of Texas” [Read article]
Today the Board of Regents of the University of Texas system presented its prestigious Outstanding Teaching Award to Keith A. Erekson. His teaching performance over three years was rigorously examined by students, campus leaders, and external judges. He received a bronze medallion, a certificate, and cash prize–sharing $1.8 million with 72 faculty members from […]
The Journal of American History has published Erekson’s “Putting History Teaching ‘In its Place.’” The article uses the example of the “Lincoln Inquiry” to urge history teachers to remember the importance of places–the archives and the presenter’s podium–in teaching students to do history. The Journal of American History is the […]
“. . . to help make sense of what’s going on in Texas, you might want to check out TEKSWatch, which is hosted by the Center for History Teaching & Learning at the University of Texas at El Paso. Amid all the passion and rhetoric inspired by the Texas debate, the site provides what appears […]
In Everybody’s History, Erekson encourages teachers to take their students into the archives. “After countless hours of painstaking research through photos, libraries, archives, and oral histories,” his students donated their research papers to the El Paso Museum of History. [Read the full press release (written by the students)] They researched and wrote about […]
