A History Teaching Toolbox: Practical Classroom Strategies

by Russel Tarr

A History Teaching Toolbox is the perfect handbook for busy classroom teachers eager to try out some new strategies with their students.

More than 60 tried and tested activities and approaches are organised into helpful categories and explained with step-by-step instructions and topic-specific examples to illustrate how they can be immediately employed.

A History Teaching Toolbox is written for both new and experienced classroom practitioners keen to bring history alive for their students and is written by award-winning history teacher Russel Tarr.

Genres: Education, Teaching, History

159 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 13, 2016

Reviews

[Lore]

so many fun things to incorporate in the classroom

[Kate O'Quinn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Strategies Galore!

This is one of the most useful books I've read about teaching history. I have a notebook full of ideas I can't wait to try in the fall. I will recommend this to every history teacher I know.

[Quinn Rollins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very practical, full of strategies old and new. If you're a new history teacher or veteran, you'll find things in here that will work for your kids.

[Sheryl McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Russel Tarr developed an extensive website to share with other teachers. He's been a generous, empathic supporter of teachers who want to improve student's learning.

[Matt Ely · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good array of options and techniques. There's a lot here where you can take elements or principles, then apply it to your specific situation. I am glad to have this as a resource for when I get stumped, at least as a way to get my thoughts moving in new directions and stay out of a rut as an educator.

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book crammed full of different ideas. Well organized into clear categories. One to keep coming back to again and again.

[Stuart Macalpine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was looking for concept based strategies for teaching ... and there are probably three that stand out in the text... the other strategies are much more 'topic' or 'knowledge' strategies which is fine, but not so transferable or profound. Nonetheless a nice little book of strategies.

[Kelly Chase · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many great ideas for the history classroom! They are easily adaptable to any curriculum.