On Tuesday afternoon, 18 University of Iowa education students sat captivated as their professor asked them to remember the events of 9/11.
Bruce Fehn, a UI associate professor of teaching and learning, asked the class members to form discussion groups, in which they reported on interviews they previously conducted with family members or friends regarding 9/11.
Though most students were able to engage in conversation about the terrorist attacks, Fehn reminded them they would soon be responsible for educating a growing population of students who do not remember the attacks.
And if the group activity seems a bit elementary, that’s because it is supposed to be.
The exercise — aimed at equipping young teachers with the tools necessary to tackle the sensitive and complicated issues associated with 9/11 — was part of Fehn’s Instructional Methods for Social Studies Teachers course.
“One of the largest challenges is understanding the complicated nature of the event and enabling students to understand it,” Fehn said after the course.
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