Program

ONE WEEK COURSE FOR EUROPEAN TEACHERS OF HISTORY AT SECONDARY LEVEL

CHELTENHAM: SUNDAY 03 JULY-SUNDAY 10 JULY 2011

DRAFT PROGRAMME

DAY & DATE	MORNING	AFTERNOON		EVENING
SUNDAY 03 JULY				Arrive Cheltenham
MONDAY 03 JULY	0900- Welcome & Introduction 1030 1100- Lecture: ‘Secondary Education in 1300 England: Recent Developments and Current Issues’	1400- Walking Tour of Cheltenham 1530
TUESDAY 05 JULY	0900- Lecture on CLIL (Content and 1230 Language Integrated Learning) at secondary level with Dr Diana Hicks	1330- Lecture on CLIL with Dr Diana 1630 Hicks		Optional evening in a traditional pub
	or 0830- Day visit to a Secondary School: Observe History lessons 1600
WEDNESDAY 06 JULY	0830- Day visit to a Secondary School 1600 Observe History lessons and opportunity for discussion with teachers
THURSDAY 07 JULY	0830- Historical visits in South Wales 1830
	1000- Visit The Big Pit National 1230 Coal Mining Museum of Wales at Blaenavon World Heritage Site	1330- Visit St Fagans Welsh National 1700 History Museum (Open-Air Museum) and St Fagans Castle)
FRIDAY 08 JULY	1000- Visit Cheltenham Art Gallery & 1200 Museum: Inset Session on Educational Visits for Secondary School History Classes	1315- Lecture: The National Curriculum 1630 in History & The Teaching of History in British Secondary Schools. Group discussion comparing the teaching of History in England and the different European countries represented – curriculum, materials, methods, standards, assessment, national education policies with a History Teacher 1630 Evaluation – collection of completed Course Evaluation Forms by Local Organiser
SATURDAY 09 JULY	0900 Historical visits: Gloucester & Tewkesbury 1800
	1000- Guided tour of Gloucester 1130 Cathedral & Cloisters		1300- Guided Tour of Tewkesbury: 1500 Historical Perspectives. Visit Tewkesbury Abbey 1600 Re-enactment of the Battle of Tewkesbury (Wars of The Roses)
SUNDAY 10 JULY	Depart Cheltenham