Constructing a Teacher Education Programme for History Trainees

Outline of this unit

Where do you start? What do you need to cover? At what stage in the year would it be best to cover particular things? Those were the types of questions that puzzled me when I started piecing together a new History PGCE course. This section aims to address the issues and decisions you need to make when constructing a teacher training course for history. It draws on the experiences of existing providers and explores their thinking behind the courses they organise.

It will look at the following areas: