User:Sikenberry

I'm "Sikenberry", more commonly known as Susan Ikenberry, though many of my students (I teach at an independent school in Washington, DC) like the nickname, which comes from the school email. My training in history is from Vassar and Johns Hopkins University. I teach US history ~ a research and project oriented version and an AP version that is devoted to covering much stuff fast. I also teach Comparative Government and US Government and Politics (AP versions), and in times past I've taught Modern European history. I sponsor a Conservative Club, a Democratic Club, and a Turkish Club (we're visiting Turkey this summer, so it's a club that is, indeed, going places!) Last summer I took a group to Northern Ireland and Ireland to learn about the peace process. I run a blog with ideas for teaching US Government (//sikenberry.wordpress.com/) though there are other ideas up there as well, in a pretty random fashion. And I am on enough listservs to find that I know someone from a listserv pretty much wherever I go. I'm on the Teachers' Advisory Committee for our local World Affairs Council, having left the world of AP Reading (AP US history and one miserable year of AP US Government) after twenty years.

My main interest in Wikipedia is though students. I appreciate Wikipedia,and I want them to appreciate it as well, so when they do a project that involves original research, I require them to make an edit, large or small in the existing Wikipedia entry. Occasionally they report back that the entry is too perfect to tamper with, but most of the time they find a little thing to add or occasionally they add some substantial substance. I'm eager to begin to do more elaborate Wiki projects with students in the year to come.