The Teaching of History

A practical handbook for secondary and upper-grade teachers that presents concrete techniques for planning and conducting history lessons. It emphasizes the social purposes of history and offers guidance on beginning a course, assigning lessons, structuring recitations, and organizing review and assessment. Chapters give classroom-level advice on room arrangement, use of maps and the blackboard, student oral reports, written assignments, and varied modes of review; it prescribes principles of effective questioning and outlines examinations as measures of progress. The tone is pragmatic, aiming to make history instruction more engaging, relevant, and pedagogically efficient.