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A History Teaching Toolbox: Volume Two: Even More Practical Classroom Strategies

Name: A History Teaching Toolbox: Volume Two: Even More Practical Classroom Strategies
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Contributors:

Russel Tarr

Publisher:

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Education

Book Subcategory:

History, Teaching

Book Topic:

Subjects

Series:

A History Teaching Toolbox #2

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Release Date:

2018-09-05

ISBN 13:

9781723517167

Weight:

0.52 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 inches

Pages:

172

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Description

This second volume of A History Teaching Toolbox is an ideal handbook for busy classroom teachers eager to try out fresh strategies with their students. More than 65 tried and tested activities and approaches are organised into helpful categories and explained with step-by-step instructions and topic-specific examples to illustrate how they can be immediately employed. A History Teaching Toolbox Volume Two is written for both new and experienced classroom practitioners keen to bring history alive for their students and is written by award-winning history teacher Russel Tarr.

Chapter outline

1. Imparting knowledge to students

Escape the room
Three effective role-play techniques
Hand gestures to reflect changing relations between groups
Unlock the box
Mysterious moments
Image flash
Time-wipes

2. Debate and Discussion Strategies

Chat-show challenges
Tell us something we don t know
Protest placards: design, anticipate, react
Brilliance or Baloney?
Guess the statistics
Sticky notes for silent presentations
Boxing match debates

3. Transforming and applying knowledge

TripAdvisor graphics showing impact in various places
Design a theme park based around the topic
Convert statistics into infographics
Design / destroy a banknote
Create a Google Doodle
Produce a board game
Guess who?

4. Comparing, contrasting, linking

Sports commentaries
Crime boards
Dialogue poems
Speed dates / Blind dates
Top trumps
Which one doesn't belong?

5. Judgments and interpretations

Relationship webs
Living graph
Factor auction
How would geographers approach this question?
Design a DVD Inlay
Time travel agent: complaint letters v. advertising blurb

6. Group work approaches

Destroy or deploy?
Random name picker
Re-enact a conference
Which part of the body were you?
Image jigsaw
Peer assessment slips

7: Tests and revision

Takeaway mark scheme
How certain are you?
Plot holes in history
Spiced-up cloze exercises
Alphabet challenge
Rhyming timelines
Exam questions from hell

8: Classroom display

Knowledge cubes
The big picture
Rice above the statistics
Affordable props
Meme posters
Turn the topic into objects

9: Essay skills

Sketch-noting and beyond
Backward rainbow essays
Student vocabulary bookmark
Biased words knockout challenge
Online essay-writing tools
Compare opening paragraphs of several books

10: Other ideas

Build history into the school calendar
Wheel of emotions
Using Emojis
Dream sources
Fake news
Breaking news / Click bait
Biographies beyond the syllabus
Five ways to use music effectively

About the Author
Russel Tarr has a degree in Modern World History from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and a PGCE from Birmingham University. He is currently Head of History at the International School of Toulouse, France. He is author of the award-winning www.activehistory.co.uk, which provides innovative resources and online simulations for the history classroom, www.classtools.net, which freely provides online game generators and learning templates, and www.tarrstoolbox.net, which shares practical classroom strategies for teachers. Russel delivers training courses to history teachers in the UK and Europe, writes regularly for the national and international press on historical and educational issues and is a prominent figure in the educational community on Twitter (where he tweets as @russeltarr / @activehistory / @classtools).

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