Making Every History Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great History Teaching

by Chris Runeckles, Shaun Allison (Editor), Andy Tharby (Editor)

Overview

Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Chris Runeckles articulates the fundamentals of great history teaching and shares simple, realistic classroom strategies designed to deliver memorable lessons. Making Every History Lesson Count is underpinned by six pedagogical principles - challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning - that will enable history teachers to help students better engage with the subject matter and develop more sophisticated historical analysis and arguments. In an age of educational quick fixes and ever-moving goalposts, this precise and timely book provides lasting solutions to age-old problems and inspires a challenging, evidence-based approach to secondary school history teaching. Suitable for history teachers of students aged 11-16 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785833366
Publisher:	Crown House Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2018
Series:	Making Every Lesson Count
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Chris Runeckles is an experienced history teacher at Durrington High School, where he currently leads on teaching and learning and is an assistant director of their Research School. A former journalist, Chris also regularly contributes to the popular blog Class Teaching and tweets @chris_runeckles.

Shaun Allison leads on CPD in his school and is interested in supporting teachers to grow and develop their classroom practice. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Perfect Teacher-Led CPD and a popular speaker. Shaun's background is in science teaching and he is currently deputy head teacher at Durrington High School.Andy Tharby, a practising English teacher, is a research lead with an interest in helping ordinary classroom teachers enhance their practice through engagement with a wider evidence base. His well-regarded blog, Reflecting English, covers a range of subjects from improving student writing to finding solutions to the problems and dilemmas faced by busy teachers.

Andy Tharby is a practising English teacher with over a decade's classroom experience at a secondary school in West Sussex. He is co-author of the award winning Making Every Lesson Count and the author of Making Every English Lesson Count. Andy is also interested in helping fellow teachers enhance their practice through engagement with research evidence.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements i

Introduction 1

1 Challenge 9

2 Explanation 29

3 Modelling 51

4 Practice 71

5 Feedback 99

6 Questioning 121

Final Thoughts 143

Bibliography 145