mdm denise lim

🎓A history teacher who loves history and loves students😎 I live in Singapore 🇸🇬

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

They say never to meet your heroes but I’m glad I did! @Counsell_C ‘the object is not the same as the means of its nurture’ - thank you for the clarion call to teach history as a discipline and to prioritise the place of historical scholarship (not isolated exam skills 🤪).

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Education that prioritises "21st-century skills" over content knowledge is like teaching someone to fish by removing all the fish from the lake. You can't think critically about nothing, collaborate meaningfully around ignorance, or create innovatively from an empty vessel.

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

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[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

oh but how things are changing in 2024... 21st century competencies, inquiry/ discovery learning and critical thinking everywhere. Everywhere. 😭

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

@tombennett71 This is what was happening 10 years ago. It's almost as if the more stuff you know, the more creative you can be..

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

I'm usually pretty anxious about everything I say in class that's not history, so to have students respond like that to something I said, that's not normal for me 🙂 maybe I'll gain more confidence in the classroom soon (it's been a mere 9 years after all 😂)

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

Today I told my class not to let anyone look down on their education journey just because they might've repeated a year or two. Two students in the back silently high fived each other as they knew I was talking about them (among others), and yea my heart felt like bursting 🥺🥺

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

Have been working on some maps recently (trying to find interwar maps that photocopy well is quite hard) they're not perfect but they'll do! #historyteacher

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

Early challenges faced by the Weimar government - used this for online learning. I didn't include the Munich Putsch though - that's for next time :)

https://t.co/VmELUsfhA3

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

Yesterday during an exam I removed a bee from a student's hair without harm to the student, the bee, or the exam proceedings, and that might be one of my greatest achievements to date.

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

Digitised a murder mystery lesson on Kirov only to realise I will never use it again... Stalin's being removed from our syllabus next year.
Completed this one with help from an SHP textbook or two, Slidesmania, and loads of inspiration from Edutwitter.
https://t.co/c9TOilarj2

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

Sometimes I feel a bit down and out but these kids are the best 😊

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

https://t.co/1eego0Qu1C
👆Google slides version

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

I made this after #TMHI :) But now the real question is, was the Cuban Missile Crisis 1 or 2 grannies ago?

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

Been cracking my head thinking about how to teach the Cuban Missile Crisis... argh!

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

@WakefieldHist I just did them in ppt and sent them off to the printer's!

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

My cards arrived... Time to add these to my British Malaya starter pack 😎 students can read out the facts to each other and guess who the card is! #historyteacher

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

@HG_in_French Yes I made them for a game! Just a simple recall activity!

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

@Teacher_SarahC ... me? 😝

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

@MsSarahCampbell They're not standard; they can be purchased online. I love fonts so that's my weakness!

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

my blueprint for teaching the korean war; it is the only chapter i teach totally non-chronologically. #historyteacher download here: https://t.co/HMwur1tU6R

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

@brixtandrew @labhistorical It wasn't examined at the N Levels due to COVID! We do also teach it at our equivalent of the KS3 level though, and it was still included in the O Level exam in 2020.

[mdm denise lim @mdmdeniselim]

I created these summaries for my kids this year. I haven't done one on WWII in the Pacific (it got removed from national exams due to COVID) so I guess I know what I should be working on next. #historyteacher