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THREAD on 'The Writing Revolution' (TWR) and its applicability when teaching students to write in history.
(I hope to write a blog/article on this topic later when I have more time but here are some of my initial, undeveloped thoughts). 1/14
First, TWR makes a number of recommendations that I strongly agree with. For example, explicit teaching of writing; serious focus on the levels of sentence and clause; all teachers taking responsibility for teaching writing; emphases on planning and revising etc. etc. 2/14
I wonder, however, if hopes are being pinned on TWR by history teachers that it simply can't fulfil. Below are some general questions I ask of any approach to literacy in history which I think can and should be asked specifically of TWR. 3/14
Thread on ‘magpie’ culture. Over the last few months I’ve seen a number of tweets sharing my resources without citing the pieces they’re originally from. IMO, it’s good practice to always cite the relevant blog/article. First, it’s just polite. The resources I create and 1/6
crucially the accompanying context I write up in articles or blogs about the lessons the resources come from take a lot of time and effort. Second, and more importantly, citations are key for the reader to appreciate the rationale behind the resource’s creation, see how that 2/6
curricular planning builds on the hard work of others in history teacher community, and meaningfully assess whether the resource is actually generalisable to the reader’s context. If you don’t the know the resource’s context, you also might not be positioned to mediate 3/6
I began writing blogs to procrastinate wildly in face of a looming article deadline. Now the deadline’s far too close to ignore! Won’t be any new posts for a while but thanks everyone for your kind and constructive feedback. Below is a recap of the posts if you’re interested.
What happens when even trained historians try ‘evaluating’ historical interpretations without a critical mass of substantive knowledge and what this might reveal about ‘skills-based’ approaches to ‘interpretations’ jcarrollhistory.com/2017/11/04/wha…