Giving teachers the tools to engage with archaeology at Durham University
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2016-09-23

As a University-based learning team spread across a number of key historic sites and museums including a UNESCO World Heritage Site, we have a unique opportunity to engage students and teachers with cutting edge archaeological research to help support the national history curricula. Our approach is to work closely with academic staff and curators to inform our broad learning programme whilst providing support for learning and outreach elements of large scale academic research projects. Communication with teachers is vital to ensure that what we offer as a service, is that which is needed to support understanding and delivery in the classroom; providing training and engagement opportunities encourages this continued dialogue. The integration of archaeological skills such as object handling underpins our own teaching and learning objectives and we believe that archaeology is an excellent vehicle by which to satisfy numerous requirements within both the national history, and wider, curricula.