A History Teacher's Toolbox: Transform your teaching in two afternoons on ZOOM
Effective, practical, creative ideas for your classroom
Spend time trying out some fresh and creative techniques and resources with Russel Tarr, full-time history teacher, author of ActiveHistory and the best-selling 'History Teaching Toolbox'.
This event will consist of four 90-minute sessions over two days using ZOOM video conferencing:
Part 1: Wednesday July 12th, 2:00pm-17.30pm CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME
Part 2: Thursday July 13th, 2:00pm-17.30pm CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME
You're guaranteed to go away with loads of useful resources and ideas to use in your secondary school classroom.
This online course will cover such things as:
- Using "Escape the Room" scenarios in the history classroom
- "History Mysteries" as the basis for effective student enquiries
- Engaging strategies for reading, note-taking and essay-writing
- Simple decision-making and strategy games
- Tools for prioritisation, categorisation, analysis
- Techniques for improving teacher-led lectures
- Meaningful roleplay techniques
- Fresh approaches to debating and discussion
- Creative homework strategies
- Teaching through images and mapwork
- Effective cross-curricular projects with other departments
- 60 tools in 60 minutes
Russel Tarr