Teaching of History

🎯 Objectives

• Understand the meaning, scope, and importance of history. 🌍
• Identify the aims and objectives of teaching History. 🎓
• Use various methods and audio-visual aids, and latest information technology. 🖥️
• Analyze the role of history in developing national and international understanding. 🌐
• Prepare lesson plans using specific methods of teaching history. 📝

📘 Syllabus

SECTION – A

1. History: meaning, nature, objectives, importance, scope; relationship with other subjects; curriculum: meaning, principles. 📖
2. Role of the history teacher for use and development of history; techniques for teaching history. 📜

SECTION – B

1. History textbook: meaning, types, importance, and qualities; classification of instructional objectives. 📚
2. Approaches to curriculum design: social, political, and cultural considerations; trend analysis in history. 📊

Activities (Any one of the following)

• Write a brief history of any government school. 🏫
• Evaluate one chapter of history from any class. 📖
• Visit any one historical place and write down its historical importance. 🏰

📚 Books Recommended

1. Burnston, W.H.: Principles of History Teaching. 📘
2. Car, E.H.: What is History. 📗
3. Chaubhe, K.P.: Audio-visual Aids in Teaching of Indian History. 📙
4. Ghata, V.D.: The Teaching of History. 📕
5. Ghosh, K.D.: Creative Teaching in History. 📗
6. Hill, C.P.: Suggestion for Teaching of History, UNESCO. 📘
7. N.C.E.R.T.: Effective Teaching of History in India. 📙
8. Prakash, Budh: A New Approach to History. 📗

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