How to develop questioning skills through archaeology – Neil Smith, @smitne, Deputy Head Academic, Manchester Grammar School
This session will explore the ways in which using archaeology in the classroom can help develop pupils’ questioning skills. Building on the experience of the history department at The Manchester Grammar School’s work with the Blackden Trust, Neil will explain how the inter-disciplinary nature of archaeological study lends itself to an enquiry-based approach, which can enhance pupils’ ability to interrogate information in a variety of different subjects.
A brief bio:
Neil Smith is Deputy Head (Academic) at The Manchester Grammar School. He is a senior GCE examiner and the author of ‘Twentieth Century History for Cambridge IGCSE’, ‘The History Teacher’s Handbook’, and ‘History in an Hour: The Vietnam War’.
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