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Making Every History Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great History Teaching
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 strategies designed to deliver memorable lessons. The book is underpinned by six pedagogical principles challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning and equips history teachers with the tools and techniques 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 carefully crafted addition to the Making Every Lesson Count series expertly bridges the gap between the realms of academic research and the humble classroom. It therefore marries evidence-based practice with collective experience and, in doing so, inspires a challenging approach to secondary school history teaching.
Making Every History Lesson Count has been written for new and experienced practitioners alike, offering gimmick-free advice that will energise them to more effectively carve out those unique moments of resonance with young people. Each chapter also concludes with a series of questions that will prompt reflective thought and enable educators to relate the content to their own classroom practice.
In an age of educational quick fixes and ever-moving goalposts, this carefully crafted addition to the Making Every Lesson Count series expertly bridges the gap between the realms of academic research and the humble classroom. It therefore marries evidence-based practice with collective experience and, in doing so, inspires a challenging approach to secondary school history teaching.
Making Every History Lesson Count has been written for new and experienced practitioners alike, offering gimmick-free advice that will energise them to more effectively carve out those unique moments of resonance with young people. Each chapter also concludes with a series of questions that will prompt reflective thought and enable educators to relate the content to their own classroom practice.
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184 pages, Paperback
Published December 31, 2018
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July 7, 2022
A quick read broken into easy chunks with a focus on actionability with some good tips on applying strategy. A good tool to brush up and quickly get new ideas, but I'd be surprised if there was anything within that was completely new to anyone already trained. Rather, it'd probably be most useful to those in their first placement.
January 4, 2021
Good to dip into when refining your teaching practice! Will revisit throughout my career
April 23, 2023
ถ้าว่าด้วยความสนุกอาจจะบอกว่าไม่ได้สนุกขนาดนั้� แต่ชอบท่าทีของหนังสือมาก� ในแง่ที่มันเป็นคู่มือการสอนประวัติศาสตร์สำหรับผู้สอนแบบตรงไปตรงม� แต่ไม่ได้นำเสนอออกมาอย่างทื่อๆ แต่เต็มไปด้วยชุดเครื่องมื� หลักกา� และคำถามที่สามารถเอาไปใช้จริงได้ในชั้นเรียน หัวใจของมันคือเรื่องหลักคิดว่าเราจะสอนประวัติศาสตร์เพื่ออะไร ด้วยวิธีการอย่างไร และควรทำอะไรบ้างเวล� 'สอ�' กระบวนการทั้งหมดไล่เรียงไปตั้งแต่ความท้าทายที่ต้องเจอ การออกแบบคลาสเรียน เครื่องมือที่สามารถใช้ได้ มีหลักฐานแล้วควรเอามาทำอะไรบ้างนอกจากโยนให้ผู้เรียนอ่านดื้อ� ควรให้ฟีดแบคและประเมินผลอย่างไรจึงจะดีที่สุ� เป็นฮาวทูที่มีประโยชน์มากสำหรับผู้สอนประวัติศาสตร� อยากให้มีอะไรแบบนี้ในภาษาไทยมากกว่าคู่มือครูที่มีอยู่ในอดีตจนถึงปัจจุบัน
July 23, 2019
I saw this being lauded on Twitter and decided to buy a copy; I'm so glad I did! It's reassuring to read that I'm already doing lots that this book suggests, and I have picked up lots of good tips I can use in my own lessons. Will share with my department and I now keep a copy in my classroom for constant reference!
January 5, 2019
Excellent book. Plenty to introduce to my practice and a great tool for discussion with other history teachers.
July 13, 2020
With well-chunked sections and reflection questions this book gets you to reflect on your teaching and learn a few new things along the way. Perfect for CPD.
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