Learning to Teach History in the Secondary School - A Companion to School Experience

Learning to Teach History in the Secondary School, now in its fifth edition and established as one of the leading texts for all history student teachers, enables you to learn to teach history in a way that pupils will find interesting, enjoyable and purposeful.

List of contents

List of figures
List of tasks
Website linked to the book
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The purposes and benefits of school history
3. Subject knowledge: what do history teachers need to know?
4. Planning for learning
5. Teaching approaches and methods: what can you do in a history lesson?
6. Developing pupils' historical understanding (1) time, cause, change, similarity and difference, empathy, significance
7. Developing pupils' historical understanding (2): interpretation, accounts, evidence, enquiry, substantive concepts
8. Ensuring inclusion in the history classroom
9. The use of new technology in the history classroom
10. Assessment in the history classroom
11. Teaching for external examinations
12. Continuing professional development

About the author

Terry Haydn is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of East Anglia. Before working in teacher education, he worked at an inner-city comprehensive in Manchester.
Alison Stephen is Director of Humanities at Abraham Moss Community School, Manchester, and has written articles on history teaching for Teaching History.

Summary

Learning to Teach History in the Secondary School, now in its fifth edition and established as one of the leading texts for all history student teachers, enables you to learn to teach history in a way that pupils will find interesting, enjoyable and purposeful.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Haydn, Terry (University of East Anglia Haydn, Terry Stephen Haydn, Haydn Terry, Alison Stephen, Stephen Alison
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2021
• EAN: 9780367183356
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18335-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; EDUCATION / General, Secondary Schools, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: History, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary