Hints and tips on how to best teach History, grade 8-9, Namibian context.

1. HISTORY GENERAL
INFORMATION RETREAT
Social Science 8-9
History
By: Salomo Ndeyamunye yaNdeshimona

2. HISTORY QUESTIONS
 Ensure learner understand all Historical Questions from
grade 8, build on it until grade 10.
 Explain every question, and concentrate on how to
answer it at national levels.
 Section A: Multiple choice questions, easy, but marks are
lost at a fast rate.
 Section B: Essay questions, advice learners to answer in
paragraph forms.

3. ASSESSMENT
 Explain to learners the importance of
CASS
 Activities
 Topic tasks
 Test and project
 Ensure you give more written works to
learners, weather you mark them or not, it
will sharpen their skills, and expose them
to more questions

4. COVERING THE SYLLABUS CONTENT
Link syllabi content to current affairs
Use imagery to tag learners understanding
(cartoons, pictures, maps etc.)
Use syllabi competencies when setting
task and test as topic.
Use varieties of questions per competency
to increase coverage

5. HISTORICAL SOURCES
Turn Halle hall in Windhoek The League of Nations

9. TIME AND SYLLABUS CONTENT
Use competency as questions
Explain each competency using
possible questions (All types)
Cover syllabi in term 1, and leave term
2 and 3 as revision terms.

10. HISTORY AND ENTERTAINMENT
Many people perceive History as boring, long
stories, with no practical and fun.
What do you do to lively up your
History lesson?

11. MY APPROACH TO LIVELY UP HISTORY
 Play music
E.G Cassinga-Ras Sheehama, while kids
write a paragraph on Cassinga
 Movie
“Where other wavered”-Sam Nuyoma Whole
Namibian History is covered
“We were Soldiers-Mel Gibson
Vietnam war (cold war loss for USA)

12. MOVIES LIKE

13. PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE?