NAME:
Mr. Bair
SCHOOL:
Bosque School
CLASS:
9th Grade Ancient World History and Student Government
SCHOOL PHONE:
898-6388 #267
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.
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,