Teaching History and Examination of Program Content

lhist2311  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Teaching History and Examination of Program Content
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
7 credits
45.0 h + 30.0 h
Q1 and Q2
Teacher(s)
Bouhon Mathieu;
Language
French
Prerequisites
Students should also be registered for teaching practice (HIST 9001) and for the teaching practice seminar for history (HIST 2313).
Main themes
The course will examine various aspects of teaching history in secondary schools, namely :
  • legal regulations, references, and programmes relating to the French-speaking community in Belgium;
  • means of creating and implementing an instructional sequence intended to teach certain historical knowledge and knowledge of how to pursue the discipline of history;
  • means of creating and implementing an instructional sequence intended to teach certain skills needed by students in history classes ;
  • conceptual skills ;
  • evaluation of student learning (knowledge, knowledge of methods, skills), both functional (training vs. certification) and technical.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 Upon completion of the course students should be able to :
- create, organize, and evaluate an instructional sequence in history intended for secondary-level students ;
- critically analyse an instructional sequence intended for secondary-level students.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
The course will alternate between exposition of theories and the presentation and critical analysis of instructional sequences in history and other practical tasks.
Faculty or entity
HIST


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Teacher Training Certificate (upper secondary education) - History

Master [120] in History