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A METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE TO MULTI - PERSPECTIVE HISTORY TEACHING / MITMEPERSPEKTIIVSE AJALOOÕPETUSE METOODILINE JUHEND

Date of Publication

no date (no earlier than 2018)

Target Group

Lecturers
Students

Domain Area

Teacher Education

Learning Scenario

Target Language

Estonian

Language of Instruction

Estonian

CEFR level

C1
C2

Type of Material

Guiding resources (online course/book)

Linguistic Features

Vocabulary
Grammar

Skills

Speaking
Critical Thinking
Reading
Mediation

Description

The resource is designed for current or would-be teachers of history. Stemming from both the EU documents on the current state of youth, history and societal values and works in didactics by teaching professionals, the resource develops an approach to building a multi-layered perspective in a history classroom.

Case study

The resource may be used in its entirety as a guidebook as it first provides the theoretical background into the selected approach and then a number of activities aimed at enhancing the learner's critical thinking skills as well as the exploratory environment of a history class. One activity, for instance, is An Avatar (p. 17 ff.), in which the participants are placed in a given historical context and are asked to respond to a specific event. This role-play is carefully explicated, its didactic goals and objectives presented and motivated, following which illustrative examples are provided. Another example is emotion cards (pp. 27-28), which may be printed, cut out and distributed to students to speak about their emotions upon covering a given topic, thereby raising their awareness of both the complexity of the phenomena explored as well as their own personality.

Guidelines

1. Download the resource.
2. Use it as a guidebook or an activity book.

Review

Category
Rate
Comprehensive approach
Capacity to match the needs of lecturers and students

5

Added value
The provided tangible improvements

5

Motivation enhancement
The capacity to motivate students to improve their language skills

5

Innovation
Effectiveness in introducing innovative, creative and previously unknown approaches to LSP learning

3

Transferability
Measurement of the transferable potential and possibility to be a source of further capitalisation/application for other language projects in different countries

4

Skills assessment and validation
Availability of appropriate tools for lecturers to monitor students’ progress and for students to assess own progress and to reflect on learning

3

Adaptability
Flexibility of the contents and possibilities for the LSP lecturers to adapt the contents to their and to students’ need

3

Usability
Assess the technical usability from the point of view of the lecturer and the student

4

Accessibility
Assess the accessibility from the point of view of the lecturer and the student

5

Comments:
This resource is an up-to-date step-by-step guidance to novice history teachers. It may also be used a resource book for experienced teachers who seek to further refine their teaching skills by acquainting themselves with the current values and challenges as formulated in EU documents and aligning their teaching practices in order to meet the demands of the contemporary educational environment. The resource offers a number of strategies that can be easily implemented into the course curriculum, and which are designed to foster exploratory, critical thinking and analytical skills of the students.
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