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Q. How
many units will be produced and what will they cover?
A. In
total there will be 12 units. They will cover:
- Beginning
history teachers’ development:
understanding progression in learning to teach history
- Working
with adult learners
- Programme design: constructing a teacher education
programme for history trainees
- Working with school-based colleagues
- Assessing the progress and
achievements of history trainees: using the Professional Standards
for QTS
- How history works: enabling trainees to understand
the nature of their discipline and key ideas for transforming
this into
classroom practice.
- How children learn in history, including
a consideration of EAL, inclusion and differentiation.
- Planning
history lessons: issues of principle associated with planning,
related to specific concepts and ideas
in history.
- Teaching and learning strategies in
history: general pedagogical principles (including the key
stage
3 strategy, the use of
ICT in history teaching and learning, citizenship
education) and more subject
specific approaches.
- Progression in history
learning: a consideration of different types of progression and
different
time scales
for progression
- Assessment in history: both
assessment for learning and assessment of learning at
key stages
3 and 4
and post 16.
- Engaging with research as a
teacher trainer and becoming research active: ways
of accessing
and making
critical
and appropriate use
of research (of whatever type) as a source
for trainees’ learning
and development. It will also indicate
the ways in which trainers can be engaged
in research themselves both within
and beyond
their own institutions. The intention is
that units 1-4 will exemplify
this approach for new trainers and some
of the ideas embedded in units 6-11 will
be framed in terms that encourage new
trainers to adopt a research perspective
to their work.
Q. When will the units be ready?
A. The project runs over three years. In the first phase, units 1-4
will be produced and will be ready by July 2004. Units 5-9 are
in their preliminary stages and should be completed by the start
of 2005. The final 3 units will be completed during 2005.
Q. How should I use this site?
A. The site has been designed with a unit on each topic, with associated
resources and activities. The intention is that you can either
work through the units or dip in and out of them, depending on
what is of interest and value to you.
Q. Who is the site intended for?
A. The site has been written for all those new to initial teacher
training. Several of the units are particularly relevant to people
who have
responsibility for designing and leading history PGCE programmes
(e.g. the unit on programme design for tutors in higher education
or SCITT co-ordinators). Others may be of interest to school mentors
e.g. the unit on working with adult learners.
Q. Who has been involved in the production
of this work?
A. The funding has come from the TTA, but the Historical Association
in conjunction with the core team oversees the work. It has been
written by people involved in teacher education with very different
backgrounds and degrees of experience. It is not the definitive
answer to questions about teacher education, but presents the experiences
of those involved in its production, and should stimulate thought
about effective history teacher education.
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