History Methodology-Steps on How to Teach History With Ease-Lecture 1

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Steps on How to Teach History With Ease
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                                                            Olaide Alabi (PhD)
History can be quite complex to teach. You could leave students bored or uninterested if you do it wrong. But, this doesn't mean teaching History is always hard. There are ways to learn how to teach it properly and keep your class interested. Want to know more? Read on to find out the steps that make teaching History easy.

  1. Introducing History to students 

b. What are the Objectives of teaching History?


  1. Definition of History and Some Historical terms

a. Defining History 


b. Some related terms in History:

  •  past.

  • antiquity.

  • yesterday.

  • yesteryear.

  • ancient times.

  • bygone times.

  • days of old.

  • days of yore

  • Archive

  • Bibliography:

  • archivist,

  • chronologist,

  • genealogist,

  • hagiographer

  • Archaeology

  • ancient articles, 

  • unfamiliar terrains

3. Role of History Teachers


4. Nature of History 

Nature of History as a subject i.e., what students should expect to come across in History-e.g., dates, maps, foreign names, geographical features (such as rivers, hills, ocean, forest, mountains and so on), articles of trade, kingdoms, warfare, vassal states, exploitation, imperialism etc.

5. Scope of History about other subjects 

  1. History is both a Science and an Art

  2. Branches of History: 

  • Political History. …

  • Social History. …

  • Economic History. …

  • Religious History. …

  • Diplomatic History. …

  • Art History. …

  • Food History. …

  • Science and Medicine History.

6. Aims and Objectives of Teaching History at the secondary school level 

  1. Stating the Aims and objectives of teaching History at the secondary school level to students’ teachers in training

  2. Exposing teachers in training to general aims of teaching history 

  3. Relating the aims of teaching history at the secondary school stage 

  4. Exposing students’ teachers to objectives of teaching history at the secondary stage 

7. Values of teaching History

8. Structure of History as a basic discipline?

9. Different Methods of Teaching History

10. Evaluation in teaching History

Comments

  1. Kazeem Ilerioluwa 10 August 2024 at 14:11

    1 History can be quite complex to teach,It teaches the students to know more about the past, present and the future also to know more about dates,maps,foreign names and geographical features.
    2 History gives insight in exposing teachers to learn general aims of teaching history
    It also relates the aims of teaching history at the secondary school stage.

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  2. Sulaimon Halimah Adenike10 August 2024 at 23:42

    History seems to be a vast subject featuring the study of the past, present and future in which it implies several research to know more about dates, maps and other geographical features.

    In view of the above, there are many historical terms which includes; yesterday, days of the old, archeology, ancient articles etc while we have scopes of history as well; social history, political history ,economic history etc also, the aims and objectives of history which are: giving insight about past events , exposing teachers and students to learn general aim of teaching history etc.

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