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‘Move Me On’ is a ‘problem page’ for those involved in training or mentoring new history teachers. Each one includes a description of a difficulty experienced by a trainee teacher and detailed advice from two experienced mentors or teacher educators about how to respond.  Read more

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  • Move Me On 115: the class already know all about WW1

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    This Issue's Problem: Vera is worried that her Year 9 class already know all about World War One. 

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  • Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

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    This Issue's Problem: Louis is having problems teaching the history of medicine course at GCSE.

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  • Move Me On 112: Has problems with his subject knowledge

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    This Issue's Problem: Tom MaCaulay is having problems with his subject knowledge.

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  • Move Me On 108: Reconciling sources and stories

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    This Issue's Problem: Indira is having problems reconciling sources and stories in teaching history. 

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  • Move Me On 105: Teaching historical interpretations

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    This Issue's Problem: Charles Marks, PGCE history student, is very confused about teaching historical interpretations.

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  • Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

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    This Issue's problem: Josie, PGCE history student, is finding that her use of the department's exercises on sources is not improving pupils' understanding of evidence.

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  • Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

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    This Issue's Problem: Melville Miles, student history teacher, is in Term 3 of his PGCE year. Melville has taught a number of excellent lessons in which he enabled pupils to reach high levels of historical understanding. His diagnostic assessment of pupils' work is unusually sophisticated for a PGCE student. Melville's...

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  • Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus

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    Problem: Mike Jones, student history teacher, is half-way through his PGCE year. He is making unusually good progress in his knowledge, understanding and practice with regard to the use of sources in history. He also appears to have no difficulty with classroom management and relationships with pupils. He easily creates...

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