High School History Survey

High school history classes usually leave their students with a very positive or very negative idea of history when students graduate. What do you remember of your high school history classes and teachers? Was it a good experience or could it have been better? Take this survey to help me design my history classes to be more effective.

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What type of a school did you attend when you were in high school?

a. Public school

b. Private school

c. Home school

d. Other, please specify

What were your favorite and least favorite subjects in high school?

How did your history classes’ rank within that “favorite to least favorite subjects” scale?

Do you like history more now or less than when you had to study it in high school? Why would you say?

As you think back on that time of your life, what made your history classes interesting or boring for you?

How did your history teacher contribute in either a positive or negative way to your desire to learn about history?

What did they do well that made you want to learn about history?

What did they not do well, which made you uninterested in history?

What do you think they could have done that would have peaked your interest?

If you had an opportunity to give advice to a current high school history teacher, what would you tell them to do or not to do?