Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School

This book offers comprehensive advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary history classroom. Covering all aspects of history teaching, it is designed for you to dip in and out of and to enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme, or pupils' learning.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Curriculum Design in History
Chapter 3: Planning Enquiries in History
Chapter 4: Substantive and Disciplinary Knowledge
Chapter 5: Change and Continuity
Chapter 6: Teaching Causal Reasoning
Chapter 7: Teaching Consequence
Chapter 8: Teaching Similarity/ Difference and Historical Perspective
Chapter 9: Interpretations
Chapter 10: Historical Significance
Chapter 11: Sources and Evidence
Chapter 12: 'Decolonising' the History Curriculum in Schools
Chapter 13: Progress and Assessment in History
Chapter 14: Teaching Extended Writing in History
Chapter 15: Teaching using Historical Scholarship
Chapter 16: Teaching Local History

About the author

Dan Keates is Deputy Head Teacher at Framingham Earl High School in Norfolk.
Matt Stanford is National Lead for History for Astrea Academy Trust.
Corinne Goullée taught history for eight years at Cottenham Village College in Cambridgeshire.

Summary

This book offers comprehensive advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary history classroom. Covering all aspects of history teaching, it is designed for you to dip in and out of and to enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme, or pupils? learning.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Stanford Keates
• Assisted by: Corinne Goullée (Editor), Dan Keates (Editor), Matt Stanford (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032393544
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239354-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Teaching Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Professional Development, teacher training, Secondary Schools, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies