Mr T Does Primary History

Whose stories do we tell in primary history? Are we really teaching history?
This new book from Mr T helps supports you to:
*Bring new stories and voices into your history curriculum
*Focus on teaching history
*Support children to develop a knowledge rich understanding of a period, event or person
*Plan properly sequenced lessons for trackable skills development
*Work through four steps to build units of work: Context, Vocabulary, Chronology, Enquiry
*Teach lessons that speak to children's community and place to better engage them in learning

List of contents

Why I love history
What is primary history?
Opportunities granted in the National Curriculum 2014 specification
Whose narrative are we teaching?
The importance of locality
Considerations when starting to plan a unit of work
How I structure units of history
Context: world building
Vocabulary
Context - chronology
Why historical enquiry questions are helpful
Teaching a history lesson
Connecting lessons to form a narrative
Answering the enquiry question
My intent was... now you can implement...
The First Flight - Worked Example
The Roman Empire - Worked Example

About the author

Stuart Tiffany is an experienced primary school teacher, history specialist, CPD provider and member of the Historical Association’s primary committee. He has worked at a number of schools across West Yorkshire and now supports schools nationwide to develop their curriculum and upskill staff on history as a subject discipline.

Summary

Teach history lessons that tell more than one story and that speak to and engage all of the children in your class.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Tiffany
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2023
• EAN: 9781529611021
• ISBN: 978-1-5296-1102-1
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, Educational strategies & policy, Curriculum planning & development, For primary education, Educational: History, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, Curriculum planning and development, Project-based learning, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices