Almost done with my B.A. in social studies education. I love history and have wanted to teach it, I've wanted to do it since I was seven. But my god I have been designing lesson plans and I have come to realize that teaching is much more difficult than simply studying history. For anyone on this sub that is a teacher--secondary or otherwise, how do you all manage to teach the debates and information without being overwhelmed?
Ann Curthoys and John Docker have an excellent book called Is History Fiction? which goes through history-telling from Herodotus and Thucydides to Leopold von Ranke and Sir Walter Scott. They discuss the critical views that have shaped later approaches to history, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and other such as Keith Jenkins, Hadyn White, and various streams of thought like postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, etc.
They go through some of the big debates, historians and their intellectual backgrounds/horizons, and bring up a load of thoughtful questions. They have their own political biases too, famously they were/are both involved in the debate on the nature of 'genocide' in Australia, and whether that word/concept (and others like "frontier wars") is applicable to the British colonisation of Australia, but this is a work on historiography itself rather than any particular controversy.
I think the outline of this work would suit (perhaps is designed to suit) a lesson plan. The chapters and their topics are really well put together.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Fiction-Ann-Curthoys/dp/1742231713
Other historians and thinkers on history that they discuss include: Lord Acton, J.B. Bury, Francis Conford, George McCauley Trevelyan, Benedetto Croce, Herbert Butterfield, Raphael Lemkin, Mary Beard, J.H. Hexley, Michel Foucault, Gerda Lerna, Anna Davin, Sheila Rowbotham, Natalie Zemon Davis, Lois Banner, Joan Scott, Daqing Yang who they discuss like "characters in a historical novel, or figures in a tapestry".