the problem page for history mentors
This feature of Teaching History 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...
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the problem page for history mentors
This feature of Teaching History 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.
Mentors or others involved in the training of student history teachers are invited to be the agony
aunts.
MELVILLE MILES, PGCE STUDENT, IS HAVING A FEW PROBLEMS WITH
CAUSATION IN THE CLASSROOM
Problem: Melville Miles, student history teacher, is in Term 3 of his PGCE year.
Melville has taught a
number of excellent lessons in which he enabled pupils to reach high levels of historical understanding.
His diagnostic assessment of pupils’ work is unusually sophisticated for a PGCE student.
Melville’s two
placements have been in contrasting schools where he has t
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