A History Teaching Toolbox: Practical classroom strategies

by Russel Tarr

Overview

A History Teaching Toolbox is the perfect handbook for busy classroom teachers eager to try out some new strategies with their students.

More than 60 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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781508512059
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/13/2016
Series:	A History Teaching Toolbox , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Russel Tarr has been teaching history for almost twenty years. He has a degree in Modern World History from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford 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 is the most followed history teacher in the world.

Editorial Reviews

Russel has created and curated an enviable collection of strategies and techniques to achieve specific learning outcomes in consistently engaging and intellectually challenging ways. By identifying and categorising the broad objectives, and grouping his suggested strategies accordingly, he has produced a well-organised book that should be on every history teacher's desk. Whether you are planning a new unit of work, or looking for a different angle from which to approach a particular aspect of the course, the Toolbox will provide a wealth of practical ideas that can be implemented immediately.

Scott Allsop

This collection of teaching strategies is highly recommended for anyone seeking to improve their teaching - there's just so many good ideas to develop to fit the needs of your students.

Ian Dawson

This book is jam-packed full of great, simple to implement ideas which would enhance any lesson. If you are a history teacher, then this book is an essential purchase. I cannot recommend it highly enough!

John Mitchell

A History Teaching Toolbox really is the go-to guide for innovative and engaging History lessons. It really is a fantastic book. It's rare to find such creative, adaptable ideas which are clearly explained.

Alex Fairlamb

This truly is the type of book that provides activities and suggestions that any social studies teacher could implement tomorrow. It is also a great book for history departments - go through a chapter together, try out a few of the ideas, and come back together to tweak and adapt.

Glenn Wiebe

This creative compendium of strategies is rooted in real-life classroom practice. The Toolbox is structured around outcomes allowing the teacher to immediately select the right tool. The no-nonsense approach is perfect for busy teachers.

Carmel Bones

As Professor Robert Coe has pointed out it is entirely possible to have engagement without any learning going on. On the other hand it is also possible to have engagement and learning going on. This is particularly the case, when, as in this book, there is a clear intellectual and conceptual underpinning which gives the activities and ideas meaning and purpose. This is a collection of great ideas and resources.

Ben Walsh

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