Into the Black

One of the faculty marked assignments  that were given in our graduate studies class involved the conduct of  a brief survey of locally available resources for teaching history. This assignment afforded me an opportunity to improve my competence as a social studies teacher. In particular, I realized the wealth of instructional materials available in our local community that we teachers could utilize to enrich our students’ learning experiences, develop their understanding of the dynamics of culture change and continuity, and teach them the procedural skills involved in the study of history. I conducted my survey of resources in two important repositories of records of our town’s residents: the Central School, and the  Civil Registry. One of the important finds that I made during the conduct of my brief survey in the town’s Central School was the bank of old student records in its archive. Some of these records date back to 1980’s, 1970’s, 1960’s, and 1950’s. They c...