[casey rich]

Hey all,

I've already had some great advice by tracking down a few members of this forum, but I thought I may as well throw this out here for general discussion as well. I'm starting the history syllabus at my school and I'm also a first year teacher (some experience with middle school history, but that's a long story). My students are Chinese ELL but the school is selective. I've had a few different texts recommended to me but I thought without any prompting I'd just ask - What do you use?

As well, what extra resources do you think I should try to get for the kids (I've already got my eye on the Oxford Revision book), and for myself?

Thanks all, just spending the last week looking through this forum has already taken out a huge part of the fear and trembling that had found its way into my heart-mind as I was looking over the course material. A great community we have here.

Casey

This post has been edited by casey rich: 20 June 2009 - 03:03 AM

[Russell Courts]

Walsh supplemented by McAleavy & www.johndclare.net

This post has been edited by Russell Courts: 20 June 2009 - 10:07 PM

[Aaron O'Brien]

Russell Courts, on 20 June 2009 - 11:06 PM, said:

Walsh supplemented by McAleavy & www.johndclare.net

Ditto the above.

My main suggestion is not to so much worry about the content per se. as most students get their heads around the content mountain of the International Relations topic and a Depth Study topic [of which www.johndclare.net alone is probably sufficient] but to make a sustained attempt to teach/reinforce source skills throughout the year.

That has been the biggest change I have made over the five years of IGCSE History teaching the IGCSE course to students with little if any background in source analysis/evaluation.