The Importance of Teaching About Reading, Creating, and Critisizing Infographics
As a Social Studies teacher with a particular fondness for United States Presidential history, I find great interest in the Presidential campaign season. I truly enjoy studying all the candidates, even the ones widely considered long-shots, and their strategies to reach the White House. The 2016 Presidential election will long be remembered by many as unconventional and even chaotic. With Barrack Obama exiting the White House, the situation was prime for a dark horse candidate to emerge as a Presidential frontrunner. I remember this day well. It was late in the year 2015, when there were still over fifteen candidates vying to be the Republican representative. The field included many career politicians with established reputations as elected leaders, but on this night, I watched the news as the anchors declared a surprising candidate as the leader in the polls – former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore. I vaguely knew this man in name only. I had no knowledge of his polit...