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Mr T Does Primary History

By: Stuart Tiffany

Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781529611021
Published By: Sage UK
Year: 2023
Page Count: 168
Publication date: July 25, 2023

Price: $31

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Description

Whose stories do we tell in primary history? Are we really teaching history?

This new book from Mr T helps supports you to:

*Bring new stories and voices into your history curriculum

*Focus on teaching history

*Support children to develop a knowledge rich understanding of a period, event or person

*Plan properly sequenced lessons for trackable skills development

*Work through four steps to build units of work: Context, Vocabulary, Chronology, Enquiry

*Teach lessons that speak to children's community and place to better engage them in learning

Author(s)

Stuart Tiffany

Stuart Tiffany is an experienced primary school teacher, history specialist, CPD provider and member of the Historical Association’s primary committee. He has worked at a number of schools across West Yorkshire and now supports schools nationwide to develop their curriculum and upskill staff on history as a subject discipline.

Table of Contents

Why I love history

What is primary history?

Opportunities granted in the National Curriculum 2014 specification

Whose narrative are we teaching?

The importance of locality

Considerations when starting to plan a unit of work

How I structure units of history

Context: world building

Vocabulary

Context – chronology

Why historical enquiry questions are helpful

Teaching a history lesson

Connecting lessons to form a narrative

Answering the enquiry question

My intent was… now you can implement…

The First Flight - Worked Example

The Roman Empire - Worked Example

Other Titles in: Classroom Activities | Elementary History

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