Mentoring History Teachers in the Secondary School
A Practical Guide
- 220 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Mentoring History Teachers in the Secondary School
A Practical Guide
About this book
Mentoring History Teachers in the Secondary School supports mentors to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding essential to the successful mentoring of beginning history teachers who are undertaking their initial teacher training or being inducted into the profession as early career teachers. The authors critically explore models of mentoring and place subject specificity at the heart of every chapter, offering practical mentoring strategies rooted in the best evidence and research from the history teaching community.
This book is a vital source of encouragement and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of history teachers, providing accessible summaries of history-specific thinking on a range of topics alongside mentoring support. Key topics include:
- Understanding what being a subject-specific mentor of beginning history teachers involves
- Establishing a dialogic mentor-mentee relationship
- Supporting beginning teachers to develop the substantive and disciplinary knowledge they need to become excellent history teachers
- Guiding beginning history teachers through the lesson planning process
- Conducting subject-specific lesson observations and pre- and post-lesson discussions
- Supporting beginning history teachers to consider the purpose of history education and how they can navigate this in relation to values education, the use of ICT, and the teaching of controversial and sensitive issues.
Mentoring History Teachers in the Secondary School offers an accessible and practical guide to mentoring beginning history teachers, with ready-to-use strategies to support and inspire both mentors and beginning teachers alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of case studies
- List of tasks
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- An introduction to the series: mentoring trainee and early career teachers
- 1 Mentoring beginning history teachers
- 2 Supporting beginning history teachers to develop their subject knowledge
- 3 Supporting beginning teachers to understand and utilise substantive and disciplinary historical concepts
- 4 Helping beginning history teachers to plan, deliver, and evaluate lessons
- 5 Working with beginning history teachers to support all pupils' learning
- 6 Developing beginning teachers' reflective practice through lesson observation and feedback
- 7 Exploring the relationship between values and history education
- 8 Supporting beginning history teachers to teach controversial and sensitive issues
- 9 Supporting beginning teachers' use of ICT in the history classroom
- 10 Continuing Professional Development for beginning history teachers and mentors
- Index