New GCSE Modern World History: OCR History Teacher's Book + CD

Summary:

This is the Teacher's Book to support the OCR 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 Focus Point of the OCR 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 OCR specification by an experienced examiner, trainer and teacher

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 OCR 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 the new, endorsed, OCR 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 a senior examiner and trainer for a major awarding body who thoroughly understands the demands of the OCR specification and who also taught GCSE Modern World History for many years.

• Worksheets are provided to support each Focus task on each Focus Point of the OCR specification to guarantee a clear match to the requirements of the OCR examination and to build students' notes for revision purposes.
• Exam Focus feature explains what OCR 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 your teaching of OCR history; the distinctive demands of OCR assessment.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: the OCR examination; Differentiation; Course planning; Using ICT
Planning sheet; ICT resources; Detailed pagae by page teaching notes; Worksheets with differentiated Help Zones
Section 1: OCR Paper 1 Core Content: International Relations, 1919-2005
Part 1 The Inter-War Years, 1919-1939
1 Were the Peace Treaties of 1919-23 fair?
2 To what extent was the League of Nations a success?
3 Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
Part 2 The Cold War, 1945-1975
4 Who was to blame for the Cold War?
5 Who won the Cuban Missile Crisis?
6 Why did the USA fail in Vietnam?
Part 3 A New World? 1948-2005
7 How secure was the USSR’s control over eastern Europe, 1948-89?
8 How effective has terrorism been since 1969?
9 What is the significance of the Iraq War?
Section 2: OCR Paper 1 Depth Studies
10 Causes and Events of the First World War, 1890-1918
11 Germany, 1918-45
12 Russia, 1905-41
13 The USA, 1919-41
Section 3: OCR Paper 2 British Depth Studies
14 How was British society changed, 1890-1918?
15 How far did British Society change, 1939-1975?
Section 4: OCR Controlled Assessment (Unit 3: A973)
General Advice
Options 1-4: which to choose and how to plan
The following three additional Paper 1 depth studies can be found for free on our website (Autumn 2009):
Mao’s China, 1930-1976
End of Empire, 1939-69
The USA, 1945-1975: Land of Freedom?

About the Author(s):
Ben Walsh is an experienced GCSE history teacher, a senior examiner with a major examination board, a best-selling author and a celebrated expert in the use of digital technology in history teaching. \n \nHe taught AQA Modern World History for many years at Stafford College. \n \nAs 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