Oxford Insight History 8 for NSW Student Book + obook/assess - Australian Curriculum Edition

Oxford Insight History 8 for NSW : Student Book + obook/assess - Australian Curriculum Edition
ISBN: 9780195528879
Publication Date: 7 October 2014

Purpose written for the NSW syllabus for the Australian Curriculum by trusted and well-known NSW authors, each student book organises learning around meaningful inquiry-based units of work and sequences them according to each syllabus progression point.

Oxford Insight History:

• provides teachers with the tools to continually monitor student progress against syllabus content by means of Checkpoint activities

• is designed to provide engaging and accessible coverage of the new course

• incorporates market-leading visual resources

  The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by 'page view'. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction.

  About the Author

  Bruce Dennett is the author and co-author of six history textbooks. Since retiring from high school teaching he lectures on a part-time basis at Macquarie University in the Schools of Modern History and Education and works as a history lecturer and consultant for the NSW Library Service. He recently completed his research towards a Ph.D. at Macquarie University. Bruce regularly conducts workshops for high school teachers and students in both Junior and Senior History. His most recent series of high school workshops focused on teaching historical thinking as an aspect of junior history. Bruce has won two NSW Premier's Teacher Scholarships.

  Stephen Dixon has had a long career teaching all aspects of history across Years 712 in New South Wales. He has co-authored several textbooks for both the junior and senior History curriculum. He had extensive experience in...