Edexcel GCSE Modern World History Teacher's Book + CD

Summary:

This is the Teacher's Book to support the Edexcel specific edition of the best selling textbook for GCSE Modern World History.

About the Student's Book:
It comprehensively covers the new specification for 2009 onwards and provides a winning combination that will meet the needs of all students:
- brings the period to life and summarises complicated history clearly without being simplistic
- Focus Tasks which steadily deepen students' understanding of the content (exactly targeting each aspect of the Edexcel specification) while progressively building their history skills
- original and relevant source material - written and visual - all of which is used for historical investigation not just for illustration
- state-of-the-art ICT support in the form of a Dynamic Learning network CD ROM from an author who leads the field in developing the use of ICT to help refine students historical thinking
- authoritative interpretation of the Edexcel specification by experienced examiners, trainers and teachers

In its first and second editions this book has provided students with what they need to achieve top grades; and provided teachers with what they need to teach a rewarding and worthwhile course. A winning combination - don't settle for less.

About this Teacher's Book
- Authoritative advice on the teaching and assessment demands of the Edexcel specification
- Clear summaries of the learning pathways available using print based or digital based approaches to learning
- Detailed step-by-step notes on how to use each element of the Student's Book
- Worksheets to support every Focus Task in the Student's Book
- Help Zones for worksheets help get weaker students started with the Focus Task
- Sample assessment material and clear exam advice for students
- Guidance on where to find further online resources for each topic. These have been carefully sifted and assessed for usefulness by the author
- Worksheets are available as PDFs on CD to be used on whiteboard or loaded to a school network

• This is the Teacher's Book to support a new Edexcel specific edition of the best selling textbook for GCSE Modern World History that has ensured exam success for hundreds of thousands of students

• Written by senior examiners and trainers for a major awarding body who thoroughly understand the demands of the Edexcel specification

• Worksheets are provided to support each Focus Task on each topic of the Edexcel specification to guarantee a clear match to the requirements of the examination and to build students' notes for revision purposes
• Exam advice features explain what Edexcel examiners are looking for in each style of question and shows how the Focus Tasks help students acquire both the necessary content knowledge and the essential conceptual understanding to improve their examination grade

• Introduction and detailed notes cover key issues in teaching the specification including: approaches to differentiation; how to incorporate ICT into you teaching of Edexcel history; the distinctive demands of Edexcel assessment

Table of Contents:
Introduction: the Edexcel examination; Differentiation; Course planning; Using ICT
Planning sheet; ICT resources; Detailed page-by-page teaching notes; Worksheets with differentiated Help Zones for the following units:
Unit 1 Peace and War: International Relations 1900-1990
1.1: Why did war break out? International rivalry 1900–14
1.2: The peace settlement 1918–28
1.3: Why did war break out? International relations 1929–39
1.4: Why did the Cold War develop? 1943–56
1.5: Three Cold War crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia
c1957–69
1.6: Why did the Cold War end? The invasion of Afghanistan (1979)
to the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991).
Unit 2: Modern World Depth Studies
2.1: Germany 1918–39
2.2: Russia 1917–39
2.3 The USA 1919–41
Unit 3: Modern World Source Enquiry
3.1: War and the transformation of British society c1903–28
3.2: War and the transformation of British society c1931–51
3.3: A divided union? The USA 1945–70

About the Author(s):
Ben Walsh and Christopher Culpin are both experienced GCSE history teachers, senior examiners with a major examination board and best-selling authors in Modern World History for GCSE.

Ben Walsh is a celebrated expert in the use of digital technology in history teaching. As well as writing best selling books for GCSE Modern World History he has been the key developer of the highly praised Learning Curve online exhibitions for the National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) and he has blazed a trail in the use of digital video archives in the teaching of GCSE history.