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FREDERICK KOUNTZ (P ’29) Upper School History Teacher Dean, Grade 11 Years Teaching: 11 Years at Baldwin: 7 BA, CUNY Brooklyn College MA, CUNY Brooklyn College
Fred Kountz believes that his role as a history teacher is teaching students how to approach new material, how to analyze a text in an informed way and how to ask the right questions. His emphasis is preparing Baldwin girls to become college-level scholars in any field. He crafts his classes so that primary sources drive every project. For example, when students learn about the history of slavery in the United States, they use slave narratives from the Federal Writer's Project to explore the daily lives of slaves in the late antebellum period.
Students in Fred’s class can expect to write intense research papers where they apply some aspect of creative research. Working in close collaboration with Baldwin’s award-winning Library and staff, students have access to the same databases utilized by colleges and universities. It is the norm that the top papers turned in by Baldwin Upper School girls are of the same quality of senior year college papers.
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