Caleb Lagerwey, '13
I teach history at both the secondary and post-secondary levels, including a variety of American and world history courses at the tenth-grade, high school Advanced Placement, and college levels, plus Calvin's Social Studies Education Methods class. I believe history is vital to the present and future, and I see my profession as a sacred calling that gives me grounds for both pride and humility: I am the last American history teacher many of my students will have before they join the workforce, become voters, and start families. Being able to contextualize the present (learning the history behind the headlines) makes my students better citizens of their countries, of the world, and of God's emerging Kingdom.
Calvin's history program taught me so much more than content. While it did not skimp on the facts of history, it also gave me the skills to prepare students for Christian life in the twenty-first century. It taught me how to organize research, make claims with evidence, write with coherence, read deeply and charitably, think critically, explore curiously, and pass all that along to the next generation.
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