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The Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac series is designed to support the huge variety and range of approaches and styles for successfully teaching history, providing a rich set of tools and activities that every teacher can use to bring history to life in their own way.
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A rich suite of stunning new images, videos, interactivities – to spark students’ curiosity and imagination.
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A diverse range of activities to help teachers teach history their way and give teachers the best possible experience regardless of technology constraints and platform choices.
Activities organised from lower to higher levels of complexity plus challenge opportunities for those thirsting for more.
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Jarrod Hall from St. Dominic’s College shares how the Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac series has supported his teaching, simplified assigning student work, saved time marking and reviewing work and offered a range of engaging multimedia to support learning.
Maureen has taught history for over 30 years, including periods as department Head at Kambala, Rose Bay and Rosebank College, Five Dock. She has contributed to syllabus writing for the NSW Board of Studies and taught within the Teacher Education Program at Macquarie University.
Ian taught history for 30 years, including 25 years as a head teacher. He is a co-author of Retroactive 1 ; Retroactive 2 ; Retrospective: Year 11 Modern History and Medieval Quest for the New South Wales syllabuses; and the Retroactive Australian Curriculum for History 7–10 series. Ian has also contributed to the Macquarie Study Dictionary and has published journal articles, chapters in books and online articles on a range of history and education topics.
Anne has taught History and English for over 30 years, including two years in Papua New Guinea, and is currently at Freshwater Senior Campus. She has worked on secondment to Training and Development for the Department of Education.
Kate has taught History for over 30 years, with teaching qualifications from the University of Sydney and Sydney Teachers’ College. She has taught in high schools in Australia and Northern Ireland, including St Mary’s Cathedral College, Sydney.
Brian was a Head of History in Queensland secondary schools before joining the Education faculty at QUT in Brisbane, where he taught History, History curriculum and SOSE curriculum. He subsequently worked for the National Centre for History Education and is now an independent consultant. Brian has written syllabus and curriculum documents at state and national levels and was an adviser in the development of the Australian Curriculum: History.
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"I teach History and find the Retroactive books very helpful for Years 7-10. They are well set out, colourful and have clear and succinct information."
“Jacaranda is a teachers favourite. As a newly qualified teacher, I am supported with ease when using Jacaranda products. I taught Year 7 as my first class out of university for Geography and History and it had been a huge help to wrap my head around the Syllabus once more and to actually teach it in a real life setting! Amazing!”
“Jacaranda is excellent and easy to use. We always have fantastic service from our Education Consultant. We are very happy with Jacaranda!”
“Jacaranda have tried and proven resources. Extremely user-friendly!”
“It honestly covers so much of the curriculum that it's hard to find viable competitors to use.”
“Jacaranda products are clear, detailed and well-resourced. They are easy to read, visually engaging and have up to date scenarios/case studies. This is very valuable and helpful for the students. The activities allow my students to engage with their learning comprehensively.”
"[Jacaranda resources] are the best we had ever used.”
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