Quick and easy ideas to spice up your lessons, brought to you by @russeltarr. I teach History but many of these ideas will be transferable to other subjects too!
Overview Essay-writing skills in history are crucially important to develop but notoriously difficult to measure in final exams. Although official mark schemes provide general guidance for examiners about the main arguments and evidence that might be included, individual examiners still have some latitude to express their own subjective judgements about…
Overview In order to help students develop a wider range of vocabulary for their extended writing, I have produced the following bookmark which can be downloaded, printed and laminated to share with students. Download Student bookmark: vocabulary for essay writing
Overview The art of writing a good introduction to an essay is something which students need to regularly reflect on. I encourage students to ensure that in an introduction they do such things as: Set the scene Provide a bold thesis statement to summarise what their argument will be Outline…
