Teaching Secondary History

This section provides you, as a pre-service teacher, with research-based pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning activities in your classroom. You will gain the appreciation of a variety of classroom activities, practices and methods that are teacher-centred and student-centred (discussed in Chapter 8) and enable the learning and teaching of history in classroom contexts. Whether this section is discussing teacher-centred or student-centred practices, at the core of the approaches included in this chapter and in Chapter 8 is the idea of learning-centred pedagogy. In these chapters, you will learn about these approaches so that you can consider what is best for you and your students in any given context. This chapter will specifically map out practical approaches to effective teacher-centred practices that can be incorporated in the History classroom. You will be provided with examples of how you can use teacher-centred pedagogies to engage and teach your students.