Move Me On 202: trainee is struggling to make history accessible...
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Trainee is struggling to make history accessible without removing the scope for independent thought
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon a particular history-specific issue. See all Move Me Ons
Rosie Boland has recently moved to her second school placement, and her mentor is concerned about the very restricted view that she seems to hold about the possibility of engaging EAL students or those with low levels of literacy in historical thinking. She has internalised some important messages from her first placement, such as the importance of giving students early experiences of success in lessons and ensuring that she does not overload their working memory, but these seem to have been translated into a very limited range of classroom activities, essentially designed to ensure that such students produce the ‘correct’ answer...
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