The Wars of the Roses - The Wars of the Roses
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Description: Resources for history teachers, discussions of central issues in history teaching, guidance for trainee teachers
standards (591) active learning (59) history teaching (2) kinaesthetic (2) ian dawson (1) thinking history (1)
Celebrating the creativity, variety, challenge and craft of history teaching
This site contains a wide range of articles on curriculum planning, chronological understanding, the nature of enquiry and numerous other topics, as well as over 200 detailed teaching resources – structured role-plays, decision-making activities, living graphs and other techniques which incorporate physical and visual activity into learning. Experience shows these techniques demand far more of students in concentration and depth of thinking and lead to deeper knowledge and understanding than lessons ‘delive
The common threads linking these resources and articles are curiosity about learning, creativity in seeking solutions and a belief in the importance of making the complex accessible and being constantly responsive to individual students’ needs. History teaching is in essence a problem-solving activity – the central problem being how to help students learn effectively – and I hope this site helps teachers solve some of those problems.
The Wars of the Roses - The Wars of the Roses
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