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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 Curriculum: A Public Perspective
You and Your Curriculum: A Public Perspective
This Chapter Considers the Following Issues
- developing a sense of ownership – you and your views of the history National Curriculum
- understanding issues relating to content
- how the curriculum has developed and who drives change
- understanding the relevance of a community of practice to you as a history teacher
- teaching key concepts
- narrative frameworks – how the key concepts work together
- understanding significance.
If the previous chapter introduced you to the idea of metacognition – thinking about your thinking – this chapter requires you to adopt a more philosophical approach to your reflections. The focus is firmly on the history you are expected to teach but the issues the discussion raises, demonstrates that over the course of your professional life ...
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