At the moment our faculty is looking for Modern History textbooks, especially for 11 & 12. We're wanting to look abroad for the best ones, probably for either the IB Modern History or AP World History programmes. We would like to get a single, comprehensive textbook rather than many small, thematic ones. Can anyone recommend a good textbook?
Useful collection of images you can print out for classroom posters. I was particularly surprised to see that Shakira has a degree in World History. Who would have thought?
Large collection of short historical videos which you can download if you have a YouTube downloader in your browser. Or else if you are lucky and your school has decent internet, you could just watch them in the classroom (*wistful sigh*).
I've got a new boss these days and she's getting us to use graphic organisers and reading strategies and such things. I was sceptical at first, but now I'm a convert. Do many people use graphic organisers in class?
I'm definitely a convert. I now spend the first half of each lesson going through the content and the second half skills-building using graphic organisers, summarising, etc.
A teacher of AP World History, Bill Strickland, has kindly allowed people access to this site. The enrolment key is 'monty'. I got this through the AP World History Teachers group on Google Groups.