Using Active learning techniques to teach Black

British history

Dan Lyndonwww.comptonhistory.com

Running order• Who am I? Who are you? • Matching exercise• Living Timeline• Think, Pair, Share• Hotseating Mary Seacole• Straight out of Compton• Using webquests to teach

multicultural history

Who am I?• Born and bred in North London• Studied History in the school of

African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex

• 7 years in suburban 11-18 girls comprehensive

• 4 years in inner city 11-16 boys comprehensive as HoD History

• Became an AST last Tuesday!

Mary Seacole – in the Hotseat

‘Straight out of Compton’

• Black History Month celebrations – ‘Raising Horizons’

• Black History Challenge• Putting the ‘Black’ back in

British history

BHM at Henry

Compton

The Black History Challenge October

2004

Omar and Cameron, the losing semi-

finalists

Webquests• www.comptonhistory.com• black and asian

soldiers in WW1• black britons • Olaudah Equiano