100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding History Lessons

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No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners. _______________ Part of the best-selling 100 Ideas series, this book offers teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build history-specific thinking skills. The activities in this book aim to embrace what is mind-boggling, bizarre and extraordinary about history and tap into students innate curiosity and wonder, while still catering to the twin pressures of exam results and observation. With these criteria in mind, there are plenty of tips on demonstrating progress, ways of differentiating, preparing students for history assessments and examinations while still having fun.

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The book is a mix of tried and tested Ideas which would be particularly useful to NQTs and trainee teachers, ideas which are developed and given a different twist as well as original ideas which can be applied to not only history topics but many other subjects as well. * John Mitchell *
The activities in this book aim to embrace what is mind-boggling, bizarre and extraordinary about history and tap into students' innate curiosity and wonder, while still catering to the twin pressures of exam results and observation. * Parents in Touch *

Author Bio

Emily Thomas is a history teacher with experience of teaching in a variety of settings and of leading a successful history department in a London comprehensive.