5th Edition
Learning to Teach History in the Secondary School A Companion to School Experience
List of figures
List of tasks
Website linked to the book
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The purposes and benefits of school history
3. Subject knowledge: what do history teachers need to know?
4. Planning for learning
5. Teaching approaches and methods: what can you do in a history lesson?
6. Developing pupils’ historical understanding (1) time, cause, change, similarity and difference, empathy, significance
7. Developing pupils’ historical understanding (2): interpretation, accounts, evidence, enquiry, substantive concepts
8. Ensuring inclusion in the history classroom
9. The use of new technology in the history classroom
10. Assessment in the history classroom
11. Teaching for external examinations
12. Continuing professional development
Biography
Terry Haydn is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of East Anglia. Before working in teacher education, he worked at an inner-city comprehensive in Manchester.
Alison Stephen is Director of Humanities at Abraham Moss Community School, Manchester, and has written articles on history teaching for Teaching History.
Praise for previous editions
‘This book is without question the standard text for the history PGCE market.’ – Professor Ian Davies, University of York, UK
'Full of good ideas and better advice ... Mentors will certainly want to use it, and so, I'm sure, will the rest of the history department ... Make sure they buy one, and keep your copy under lock and key.' – Michael Duffy, Times Educational Supplement
'A very well written and readable book. Overall, this is an excellent book and one which students and teachers outwith England would find a valuable addition to their library.' – Scottish Association of Teachers of History, Resources Review
