Description
Book SynopsisThis book is an essential handbook on teaching primary history, combining subject knowledge with practical teaching ideas to ensure your teaching of history is both imaginative and creative. Emphasizing the importance of history and its wider skillset, the book explores the concepts and skills that are the fundamental building blocks of history teaching such as:
â Chronological understanding
â Concepts and skills
â Interpretation and evidence
Each chapter offers a structured approach and provides a range of activities that both address specific elements of the history curriculum and help develop this wider skillset. It includes practical ideas for lessons through an essential toolkit of ideas, teaching strategies and activities, with each activity designed to focus on a key skill or attribute associated with teaching primary history. The practical insights accompanied by a grounded rationale for each aspect of history will help you
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 What is history and why is it important?
Chapter 2 History in the curriculum
Chapter 3 Teaching history
Chapter 4 Skills
Chapter 5 Historical concepts
Chapter 6 Planning
Chapter 7 Assessment
Chapter 8 Theory into practice
Chapter 9 A primary history toolkit
Index
