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‘Move Me On’ is a ‘problem page’ for those involved in training or mentoring new history teachers. Each one includes a description of a difficulty experienced by a trainee teacher and detailed advice from two experienced mentors or teacher educators about how to respond.  Read more

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  • Move Me On 166: getting the right pitch for GCSE teaching

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    This feature is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. This issue’s problem: Bob Williams is struggling to get the pitch right in teaching topics at GCSE that the school previously taught to Year 7. Bob Williams, now half way through his training year, is feeling very out...

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  • Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions

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    This issue's problem: Roger Wendover has come to define GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions. Roger is a few weeks into his second placement and his mentor, John, has been taken aback by the rigid approach that he has adopted in teaching Year 10. John was...

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  • Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust

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    This issue's problem: Marion Hartog is wondering how to approach teaching the Holocaust, especially with her ‘difficult' Year 9.

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  • Move Me On 138: Uncertain about his Year 7 teaching in a competency based curriculum

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    This issue's problem: Amir Timur is very uncertain about his Year 7 teaching within a competency-based curriculum. Amir has just returned from the induction day at his second placement school and is very worried about the Year 7 curriculum he has to teach. The history, geography and RE departments are working...

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  • Move Me On 136: Struggling to teach elite politics/international relations

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    This issue's problem: Ernest Briggs, who wants pupils to engage with the real lives of ordinary people in the past, is struggling to learn to teach courses that he thinks are too narrowly focused on elite politics and international relations. Ernest, initially one of the most animated and enthusiastic trainees on...

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  • Move Me On 134: Getting enough A-level experience

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    Problem for the history mentor: Tom Clarkson is worried that he will not have enough A level teaching experience to teach Year 12 effectively next year. Tom Clarkson is well into his second teaching placement and fears that the outline plans on his timetable for working with Year 12 will...

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  • Move Me On 124: Teaching local history

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    This Issue's problem: Lucy Hutchinson is finding it difficult to teach local history well. Now her new mentor has asked her to plan a local history dimension into the 1750-1900 scheme of work.

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  • Move Me On 106: Teaching AS level

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    This Issues Problem: Matilda Angevin, PGCE history student, is finding it hard to get to grips with teaching AS Level.

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  • Move Me On 95: Becoming frustrated with A level

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    This Issue's Problem: Mary nightingale, PGCE Student, is becoming frustrated with her 'A' Level Teaching Problem: Mary Nightingale is in the third term of her PGCE course. Although her work with classes at Key Stage 3 and 4 is very successful, she is becoming increasingly frustrated with her A level...

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