Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co- ordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the series conforms to a concise style, while providing a wealth of tips, case studies and photocopiable material that teachers can use immediately.
Designed for teachers with little subject knowledge or experience in history, this book provides trainees with the confidence they need to teach primary history. It provides step-by-step guidance on how to create, plan, develop, organize and assess teaching activities in primary history.
Supporting great history teaching: developing confident, articulate and successful historians. Our new resources* include 16 Student Books - one for every option in the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History specification - for first teaching from September 2016.
This book examines how Nazism took shape in the classroom and offers a compelling new analysis of Nazi educational policy. The author convincingly argues that in order to understand National Socialism, we need to understand its policies on youth.
In the 21st century, especially for those of an English-speaking Christian background, religion is not very central to life. But English society is the way it is largely because of the changes brought about under the Tudors and this title explores how the modern world has evolved.
Part of a series that aims to add extra spark to your teaching. Discover how using ICT tools can turn even routine activities into more powerful learning experiences for all your pupils.
In 1914, the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked off the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. This is the story of the First World War, and the people who lived and died fighting in it. This title is part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts from the University of Roehampton.
Board games have been played since prehistoric times, passing from person to person and country to country all over the world. This colourful and unique book explains the origins of five of the most long-lasting games, with five fold out game boards and rules so that you can play the games yourself.
Lets you step back in time to North America when the Sioux, Blackfoot and other tribes roamed the Great Plains. This title features 15 practical projects that draw you into the Native American lifestyle, showing how to build a real-life tipi, create a pictograph story, or join in a Sioux war dance with your very own ankle bells and dance wand.
Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. This book demolishes the conventional notion that there is one true history and one best way to teach it.
Now in its third edition, History 5-11 aims to make teaching about the past exciting and stimulating for both teachers and children. History 5-11 contains case studies, lesson planning guidance and methods to develop pupils' historical understanding, and offers creative and innovative ways to teach the subject of history.
Graeme Easdown's text supports the use of ICT applications for teaching and learning in secondary history by providing research-based, subject-focused rationales for the use of ICT in the classroom.
* Provides assessment of current scope and nature of history in Higher Education* Addresses topical subject from wide, international perspectives* Offers practical advice as well as theoretical discussion of issues* Includes articles on race, gender, distance learning and multi--media use. .
This accessible and innovative guide to helping young children explore their past through their environment, family history and story supports both new and experienced early years practitioners in developing young children's sense of identity.
With lesson plans, advice on planning educational trips, homework suggestions and tips for assessment and marking; this guide provides teachers with practical advice on various aspects of teaching history in secondary schools. It is split into separate sections for teaching ages 11-14 and pupils aged 14-16.
"History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives" explores debates over history education in ten countries, such as Australia's 'Black Armband' vs. 'Whitewash' views. It discusses tensions between traditional and reformed history, political control of curricula, & the influence of prominent historians like Niall Ferguson and Simon Schama.
Explores the use and potential of ICT in the secondary history curriculum, and offers theory and practical advice to help secondary history teachers use ICT effectively. This book is suitable for the secondary history teachers, trainee teachers, and upper primary school teachers.
Written by a range of history professionals, including HMIs, this book provides excellent ideas on the teaching, learning and organization of history in primary and secondary schools.
Presenting examples and advice on enhancing learning through ICT in history, geography and RE, this practical book comprises a series of projects that supplement, augment and extend the QXA ICT scheme.
Young people living with dire situations tell their heart-warming stories in their own words. This is combined with facts, timelines, statistics and reports by governments and aid agencies. This story tells the life of Ira. Curriculum Links: PHSE & Citizenship KS2/KS3 Geography KS3.
Chris Runeckles' Making Every History Lesson Count: Six principles to support great history teaching offers lasting solutions to age-old problems and empowers history teachers with the confidence to bring their subject to life.
Featuring appendices and a CD with: useful contacts and resources, this work provides specific guidance on: recognising high ability and multiple intelligences planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment in History teacher questioning skills, and support for more able pupils with learning difficulties (dyslexics, ADHD, sensory impairment).
This guide offers the clear revision approach of Recap, Apply, and Review and step-by-step exam practice strategies for all AQA question types, giving you the confidence that students will succeed in their exams. UK schools save 40% off the RRP! Discount will be automatically applied when you order on your school account.
Contains the guidance and resources, which new and student history teachers need to reflect on and develop their teaching practice. This book is designed to be used independently or as an integrated extension of the popular textbook, "Learning to Teach History in the Secondary School", which provides detailed examples of theory in practice.
This study guide is written for student teachers and newly-qualified and returning teachers. It covers the teaching of all aspects of history in the primary school, including the use of artefacts, visits, visual and written sources, drama, photographs and websites.
'An excellent resource for primary Humanities undergraduate trainees. It provides reflective opportunities for intending subject leaders.' - Mrs Marion Hobbs, Education, Edge Hill University
This comprehensive textbook is an accessible guide to those new to the profession of teaching history. Covering all aspects of the job, from planning through to teaching and assessment, it provides constructive, practical advice to help subject teachers become more effective in their work.
Presents studies that address students' ideas about time, evidence, significance, and agency, as well as classroom contexts of history education and broader social influences on students' and teacher's thinking. This book address three issues: theory, method, and context.
A new title in Young Reading, Series Three. Aimed at children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories. A fascinating look at The Second World War and its causes and effects across the world.
Adopted by The Open University, this reader traces the development of school history up to and including the National Curriculum and takes a thorough look at the issues involved in teaching history today.
An examination of how high-quality history teaching and learning can be achieved in universities worldwide. The text draws on a wide range of international research as well as the reflections and experiences of university historians, linking theory and practice.
This book explored changing practice in history classrooms from the autonomy of the 1980s through the introduction of GCSEs and the National Curriculum to the prescription of the National Strategies and the pervasive influence of league tables in the first decade of the 21st century.
This book explored changing practice in history classrooms from the autonomy of the 1980s through the introduction of GCSEs and the National Curriculum to the prescription of the National Strategies and the pervasive influence of league tables in the first decade of the 21st century.
A guide to developing and using online resources in history teaching. It offers advice that helps the history teacher develop online assignments, and provides an introduction to the myriad resources and tools available for use in the online classroom.
Explores the teaching of history in American high schools during the past half-century. Drawing on his early career experience as a high school history educator and his more recent work as a historian of US education policy and practice, Larry Cuban examines how determined reformers have and have not changed the teaching of history.
In this book the author looks at the past, present and future of history teaching in primary schools in an attempt to provide a practical framework for teachers.
A study of a Tudor farmhouse. There are photographs showing children exploring a genuine Tudor farmhouse, where they handle artefacts and reproductions of historical objects such as clothing and cooking utensils. The text should be suitable for National Curriculum History at Key Stage 2.
Combining a detailed focus on the core skills and principles underpinning good history teaching, this book will help develop a strong understanding of key historical concepts and the dynamics of the primary history national curriculum.
To learn about the "Age of Revolutions" in Europe and the Americas is to engage with the emergence of the modern world. This book provides up-to-date content and perspectives, classroom-tested techniques, innovative ideas, and an exciting variety of pathways to introduce students to this complex era of history.
How do pupils make sense of the past? What is the relationship between the way historians construct interpretations of the past and the way pupils learn history in schools? This book draws together developments in a range of fields: in academic history, in the study of language and in classroom research on pupil learning.