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Making the History classroom fun and engaging
A few little things you can add to your practise to further engage and entertain your History students
Sam Cavnoudias
Making the History classroom fun and engaging
• First, take a good hard look
at yourself
– For your class to be fun and
engaging, you have to be fun
and engaging
Making the History classroom fun and engaging
• Be confident and inspiring
– Own the room you step into,
every time, every day.
– No student will engage with
you if you can’t engage with
them
Making the History classroom fun and engaging
• Know your material
– Fake it til you make it.
– Once you’ve made it, don’t lose it!
It’s too easy to stop reading up
and to stop being the expert.
– In order to engage students with
work, you need to know more
than them. It needs to be obvious
that you are the master of your
classroom, and you can’t do that
if you don’t know your material!
Making the History classroom fun and engaging
• Be passionate about your subject
– We’ve all had to teach material we
don’t love and the students can tell.
But if you like what you do, show it! I
would rather be that super-dagy guy
who loves his subject than the ‘grey
blur’ over in the corner who obviously
hates what he teaches, whose class
nobody wants to be in.
– If all else fails, down a bunch of sugar 5
min before class starts...
Making the History classroom fun and engaging
• Vary your program – break the mould
– When was the last time you really did
something different with your class?
– Have you been working through a booklet or
off a PowerPoint for the last 2 weeks straight?
– Don’t go more than 4 days without doing
something different. Watch a documentary,
put on a mock trial, do a jigsaw task, make
the students assemble a team to plan to take
down the principal’s oppressive regime.
Making the History classroom fun and engaging
• Wheel and deal
– There is no shame in
making a deal with your
class to keep them engaged
in ‘less enthralling’ material.
Make a classroom deals or
an individual contracts for
specific students.
Making the History classroom fun and engaging
• Competition always wins
– For some reason boys
generally hate doing work,
both at school and at home,
but they will furiously attend
to very similar work-related
tasks if there is a competitive
element to it.
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