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Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this book will help you develop into a reflective teacher of history. Everything you need is here: guidance on developing your analysis and self-evaluation skills, the knowledge of what you are trying to achieve and why, and examples of how experienced teachers deliver successful lessons. The book shows you how to plan lessons, how to make the best use of resources, and how to assess pupils’ progress effectively. Each chapter contains points for reflection, which encourage you to break off from your reading and think about the challenging questions that you face as a history teacher.
You and Your Subject: A Personal Perspective
You and Your Subject: A Personal Perspective
This Chapter Considers the Following Issues
- history as an academic discipline and a school subject
- developing a critical and reflective approach to your understanding of history
- the professional identity of a history teacher
- subject knowledge: doing history or learning history
- the components of subject knowledge
- understanding professional craft knowledge.
A Subject Called History: Defining a Role in the New Curriculum
During the course of writing this text, changing ideas about the nature and purpose of the school curriculum have had an impact on the emphasis and direction of some of the chapters. So much so that this opening discussion is the last part of the book to be completed: an introductory epilogue perhaps? Every aspect of the school curriculum is ...
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