In order to reinforce the relevance of your classroom subject, and to encourage students to engage with current affairs, have a regular \u201cIn the news\u2026\u201d notice pinned up on the door outside your classroom.<\/p>\n
I set aside a regular slot each week where I check my favourite blogs and newspaper websites for articles relating to my subject (I collate these using the excellent online service Feedly<\/a>), then print out the most interesting and stick them up on the classroom door along with a suitable title or question for consideration. I have also written my own program<\/a> for history teachers which automatically curates history-related news from around the world.<\/p>\n To save time, you can also set up Google Alerts<\/a> so that you can receive immediate email updates regarding any mention in the news of key topics and individuals relevant for your subject. You can also search Google News<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n Students will often read these during their break periods of when they are waiting to come into class, and this will generate discussion at the start of lessons.<\/p>\n The same approach can be adopted using TV listings to highlight particularly interesting and useful television programmes that will be broadcast in the coming week.<\/p>\n It is a great idea, as shown in the picture shown here, to re-frame the headline of the piece as a question so that students can vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’. A good starter activity is to read the piece to a class, discuss and vote, and then pass the article around so that each student can sign it during the lesson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview In order to reinforce the relevance of your classroom subject, and to encourage students to engage with current affairs, have a regular \u201cIn the news\u2026\u201d notice pinned up on the door outside your classroom. I set aside a regular slot each week where I check my favourite blogs and newspaper websites for articles relating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471],"tags":[384,136,383,160,366,382],"class_list":["bg-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/4925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Taking it further<\/h3>\n