IB History

19th Century Nationalism Italian & German Overview

IB history Revision Site at Casa Historia.Net Single Party States Russian Revolution Imperialism

Revision site for IB History Modern Germany

Revision History site for GCSE has podcasts and additional review

Historiography of various views of European History

"http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/42.2/fallace.html From The History Teacher Vol. 42, Issue 2. Viewed February 1, 2010 2:50 EST Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org Historiography and Teacher Education: Reflections on an Experimental Course Thomas D. Fallace University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia IN RECENT YEARS, professional historians have encouraged policy makers to increase content requirements in history in hopes of improving the overall teaching of history in American schools. Support for such proposals has come from many sources. The origins of this movement can be traced to the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education's Nation at Risk report, which declared that the ignorance of American youth was at a crisis level. E. D. Hirsch reiterated this concern in his best-selling Cultural Literacy, in which he also decried the lack of content knowledge of American students. Further studies, such as Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn's What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? and the Bradley Commission's Historical Literacy, argued that students were particularly deficient in historical knowledge. As a result, in the 1990s, many historians and policy makers endorsed a strengthening of history teacher requirements and the addition of expanded required historical content in the curriculum.1 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, new advances in cognitive and learning theory also supported increased disciplinary knowledge for teachers. In 1987, Lee Shulman's influential article, "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of a New Reform," introduced the concept of pedagogical content knowledge-"a special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own special form of professional understanding."2 Shulman argued that effective history teachers draw upon techniques and understandings unique to the discipline, not upon a generic set of instructional tools t

Teaching Historiography sample

Clear outline of historiography to identify key components, evaluation and historical interpretations/views.

Hanover Historical Texts Projects offers primary texts for use in history with documented citations and references for students. European, US 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Africa, Middle East, East Asia, South Asia and India, Americas outside US

Online text for research and historical texts

Series of lectures by Yale U professor

Lectures by history prof on German Unification, WWI

Amy- this looks like a good resource for both of us.

Sample essays, structure, answer the question

Excellent links, resources and activities for Europe

Brief Outline Comparison of the Italian and German Unifications