Mr. Bair

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About The Teacher Label:


About The Teacher
David Bair teaches ninth grade Ancient World History and the Student Government class. He has taught United States and World History as well as Advanced Placement World History for the past 17 years. He has also taught Fine and Advertising Arts as well as a Humanities block. David is a National Board Certified teacher and holds a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Social Studies and Fine Arts. He is also a 2011 Golden Apple fellow. In the past ten years he has traveled with his students throughout Europe and Asia as a historical guide and mentor. He also helps facilitate the student leadership program for Operation Smile, which is an international organization that benefits medical treatment of children and adults with facial deformities. Several years ago, David had an opportunity to travel with a Bosque student to Kolkotta, India, on an Operation Smile Medical Mission. In the fall of 2009 he worked with the international program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In the past two years, Mr. Bair has also traveled to China, Israel and Egypt. His travel experience enhances his curriculum b yhaving personally visited all the cultures he teaches with in his Ancient History course. He also enjoys playing guitar, hiking,backpacking,fly-fishing, and spending time with his wife and two children.

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Mission
Why do we study history? This question sits at the foundation of this course. “History opens the immense range of approaches people have taken to political, economic, and social life, to personal integrity and salvation, to cultural creativity,” and it is the viewpoint that it is important “to know how people lived and what they thought at least as much as what they did” that drives this course. In 9th grade, we study early human development and the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, and China in order to better understand the human debate over survival, faith, devotion, conflict, reason and justice,