Product details in brief
Introduction
Thinking Through History is a resource for history teachers at secondary level to create exciting and memorable history lessons built on history thinking skills. Teaching history using thinking skills activities will develop transferable learning skills through interaction and independent learning.
Benefits
Thinking Through History will assist you to:
- stimulate enjoyment and enthusiasm in the history classroom
- create independent learners
- promote students’ curiosity and improve the quality of thinking
- create a climate of ‘the open classroom’ where alternative views and ideas are encouraged
- ensure consistent progression
- offer springboards through history to key skills, thinking skills, citizenship and inclusion
- raise standards in history and literacy.
Summary of contents
Thinking Through History addresses the teaching and learning of history as well as the ways in which you, as a teacher, can promote effective learning. This valuable resource will enable teachers throughout your school to create history lessons that will excite and inspire students, helping to improve their performance and enjoyment of history as a subject.
The strategy exemplars have been trialled and written up by fifteen classroom teachers: some experienced heads of department, others with a few years under their belts and one or two in their first years of teaching. Each strategy is demonstrated through three exemplars which were developed for and trialled with classes of different age and ability. This demonstrates the inherent flexibility of each strategy, although the intentions and outcomes of using a particular strategy will vary with the age and ability of the class.
Chapter breakdown
Chapter 1 Thinking Through History
Introduction
National Curriculum History at Key Stage 3
QCA Schemes of Work for Key Stage 3 NC History
What is Teaching Thinking?
Levels of Use
Big Concepts in History
Progression
Using the Exemplars
The Exemplars: Strategies; Key Skills; Thinking Skills; QCQ KS3 Unit; Topic
Links to the KS3 NC Citizenship Requirements
Chapter 2 Odd One Out
Exemplar 1: The Battle of Hastings. Y7
Exemplar 2: Plains Indians. Y8
Exemplar 3: Trench Warfare. Y9
Chapter 3 Concept Maps
Exemplar 1: The Abolition of Slavery. Y9
Exemplar 2: Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour? Y9/Y10
Chapter 4 Lifelines
Exemplar 1: The Peasants’ Revolt. Y7
Exemplar 2: Germ. Y9/Y10
Exemplar 3: The Rise of Hitler. Y9/Y10/Y11
Chapter 5 Mysteries
Exemplar 1: Runaways. Y8/Y9
Exemplar 2: Pit Disaster! Y8/Y9/Y10
Exemplar 3: Wilf’s War. Y9
Chapter 6 Reading Photographs and Pictures
Exemplar 1: Jews in Germany. Y9
Exemplar 2: The Home Front in World War Two. Y9-Y12
Chapter 7 Pictures from Memory
Exemplar 1: Medieval Life. Y7
Exemplar 2: Motte and Bailey Castle. Y7
Chapter 8 Story-telling
Exemplar 1: The Spanish Armada. Y7/Y8
Exemplar 2: The Atomic Bomb. Y9
Exemplar 3: The Hundred Days. Y12
Chapter 9 Community of Enquiry: Philosophy through History
Exemplar 1: A Border Conflict. Y8
Exemplar 2: 38 Witnesses. Y9
Exemplar 3: Circles. Y8/Y9
Chapter 10 Professional Development
Professional Development
Curriculum Development
Curriculum Design Principles
Devising Curriculum Units
Action Research
Bridging, Transfer and Debriefing
Implications for Professional Development
Conclusion
Bibliography
Details
Spiral bound, 225 x 297, 152 Pages, Published 2002
Testimonials
‘...exemplars combine energy and fun with rigour and challenge. Teachers wishing to promote visual literacy, emotional intelligence or the power of story will find Thinking Through History a rich seam to mine’ Michael Riley, PGCE secondary tutor, Bath Spa University College
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