Innovative Approaches to Teaching History Education in Senior Secondary Schools in Bayelsa State, Nigeria: Integrating Interdisciplinary Methods into History Research (Published)
The success of teaching history is determined by the readiness of the history teacher, interest of the student, and above all the approach of teaching history adopted by the history teacher. schools in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The paper was premised on primary and secondary sources This paper discusses the innovative approaches to teaching history education in senior secondary of information and adopted the multi-disciplinary approach to generate the needed information. This paper revealed that the innovative approaches to teaching history education in senior secondary schools are primary source analysis, role-playing and simulations, multimedia presentations, project-based learning, debates and discussions, inquiry-based learning, virtual reality technology, blended learning, artificial intelligence, peer teaching, collaborative projects, Jagsaw technique, and field trip or excursion method. Findings from the paper also shows that the challenges to innovative approaches to teaching history education in senior secondary schools in Bayelsa State, Nigeria are large number of students in a classroom, teachers’ level of competence, inadequate funding, insufficient teaching materials, and a lack of time allocated for history education subject. The paper concluded that history teachers in senior secondary schools in Bayelsa State, Nigeria should use innovative approaches to teaching history education. Among others the paper recommends that history teachers in senior secondary schools in Bayelsa State, Nigeria should be encouraged to engage in training sessions as well as capacity building programme such as seminars and conferences to help them identify new approaches in enhancing the teaching of history. History teachers in senior secondary schools in Bayelsa State, Nigeria should be resourceful, innovative and creative in selecting various instructional appropriate in teaching history lessons, and that the methodological issues in teaching history should be well-addressed, a good history teacher should know the best method to use that will suit the subject matter.
Keywords: Innovative approaches, Senior Secondary School, Teaching, history education, history teacher