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  • A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Ben Walsh describes some of the rationale behind the construction of the new Learning Curve exhibition on the British Empire and, in so doing, makes a strong case for placing empire generally and the British Empire in particular at the heart of historical study for all teenagers. A complex and...
    A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

  • Conceptual awareness through categorising: using ICT to get Year 13 reading

      Teaching History article
    When presenting their practical approaches to post-16 teaching in Teaching History 103, both Richard Harris and Rachael Rudham argued that students need to ‘do’ things with information, to process it, play with it, classify it, if they are ever to understand or remember it. They made a case for not...
    Conceptual awareness through categorising: using ICT to get Year 13 reading

  • "Is it the Tuarts and then the Studors or the other way round?" The importance of developing a usable big picture of the past

      Teaching History article
    What should pupils know and understand as a result of their historical studies? This question is much in the news currently and too often quickly posed and glibly answered. In this article, Jonathan Howson poses this problem in the light of an ongoing research tradition that has sought complex answers...
    "Is it the Tuarts and then the Studors or the other way round?" The importance of developing a usable big picture of the past

  • Creating a curriculum to help children in the early years understand the world in which the live: history and children in the early years

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In a recent article in Primary History Denis Hayes suggests that despite many lively ways of learning about the past, ‘history concepts will always be beyond both the experiential and conceptual reach of the youngest pupils’. Consequently...
    Creating a curriculum to help children in the early years understand the world in which the live: history and children in the early years

  • 'I could change the world if I put my mind to it!' Teaching Controversial Issues and Citizenship Through a Project on heroes and heroines

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rye Oak School is in its second year of ‘Fresh Start’ status and there are many issues in the school, including poorly motivated children and behavioural problems. Many of the children in the school were...
    'I could change the world if I put my mind to it!' Teaching Controversial Issues and Citizenship Through a Project on heroes and heroines

  • Promote the past, celebrate the present: putting your history department in the news

      Teaching History article
    Dan Collins urges history teachers to promote both their subject and their department in the local press. Drawing on his experience of a history department in a large, mixed, multi-cultural comprehensive school in West London, Dan argues that there are many opportunities available, from national anniversaries to the success of...
    Promote the past, celebrate the present: putting your history department in the news

  • English, history and song in Year 9: mixing enquiries for a cross-curricular approach to teaching the most able

      Teaching History article
    Several articles in previous editions of Teaching History have touched on the themes of crosscurricularity, Assessment for Learning and the most able. Tony McConnell and Mandy Monaghan bring these themes together in describing how the English and history departments in their school have taken advantage of a natural area of...
    English, history and song in Year 9: mixing enquiries for a cross-curricular approach to teaching the most able

  • Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime: using external support, local history and a group project to challenge the most able

      Teaching History article
    The most able can be challenged in a variety of ways and at a number of levels, from the extension question for the individual child to the extended enquiry for the most able class. In a Leading Edge History project, Guy Woolnough and his colleagues took the concept of challenge...
    Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime: using external support, local history and a group project to challenge the most able

  • It's a lot harder than politics'...students' experience of history at Advanced Level

      Teaching History article
    Does the experience of studying history in the sixth form prepare students adequately for study at university? There is plenty of attention given to the issue of continuity across the Key Stages but much less attention given to the transition from school into higher education. It is largely assumed that...
    It's a lot harder than politics'...students' experience of history at Advanced Level

  • Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

      Teaching History article
    The current specifications for AS/A2 history require students to study change over a period of at least 100 years. Given that the 100 year study represents just one module out of six and also that it may not complement any of the other modules selected and may therefore be wholly...
    Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

  • Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Mike Tillbrook examines the impact of the new AS and A2 courses, raising several serious concerns. He explores problems for effective and rigorous assessment as well as implications of the new course structure for the quality and range of historical learning. Critical of new restrictions in content, he suggests that...
    Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum

  • Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined...
    Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

  • Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge

      Teaching History article
    Up until the early 1990s, historical knowledge sometimes had rather a bad press. Various developments, in National Curriculum, at GCSE and, importantly, in ordinary teachers’ practice and debate, then led to a much closer integration of what we once called ‘content’ and ‘skills’. Tony McAleavy examined changing perceptions of the...
    Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge

  • The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Contributors to this journal have long recognised that success in public examinations is at least partly achieved by carefully teaching in Key Stage 3. A critical component of A-Level is that students who wish to...
    The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

  • School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

      Teaching History article
    The study of history has to be vibrant. It is about real people, real dramas, real narrative, real human dilemmas. It is not surprising that, despite manifold structural pressures working against us, take-up for GCSE history is once again buoyant. There are all manner of reasons for this - is...
    School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

  • A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is a huge potential for using ICT to enhance children’s historical learning. This article suggests ways in which ICT was employed to record children’s impressions of their visit to an historical building.
    A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

  • "...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4

      Teaching History article
    In contrast with earlier studies which presented a bleak picture of the impact of history teaching, Paul Goalen presents a small-scale study that is optimistic. For pupils in three schools at least, the history teaching of the late 1990s seems to be winning through. Goalen argues that the National Curriculum...
    "...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4

  • Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom.

      Teaching History article
    Writing stories in history lessons? But we don’t do things like that in history do we? Strange bedfellows though history and fiction might seem, Dave Martin and Beth Brooke make a strong case for collaboration between the English and history departments in order to introduce students to the challenging task...
    Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom.

  • The strange power of hats: using artefacts and role play in cross-phase, cross-curricular and community partnership work

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is a strange phenomenon of history education that the power of hats is little reported and little researched- so here is an article that says hats off to hats in history lessons, as well as hats off to artefacts, sound recordings...
    The strange power of hats: using artefacts and role play in cross-phase, cross-curricular and community partnership work

  • International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

      Teaching History article
    There is no reason why pupils of so-called ‘average’ and ‘below-average ability’ cannot both understand and enjoy studying complicated international events. Indeed, in the interests of inclusion and raised standards, it is vital that they do. Our Letters Pages in the last two editions captured something of the history teaching...
    International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

  • How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Mary Woolley decided to make four revision sheets for her lower-band Year 11 set. Each was to help them view their American West study through a different lens. She was rather uncertain, however (and so were the pupils) about her fourth sheet on places. Her reflections on the revision sheet...
    How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

  • Teaching the history of women in Europe in the twentieth-century

      Teaching History article
    This article is based on Ruth Tudor’s book. The book is the collaborative result of a series of seminars and discussions which involved educators throughout Europe. Written with 14-19 year olds in mind, the approach explores how it is possible to investigate, to exploit to provide new insights and to...
    Teaching the history of women in Europe in the twentieth-century

  • Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

      Teaching History article
    In the first of our special, extra ‘Europages’, funded by the Council of Europe (CoE), Mark McLaughlin briefly outlines the purpose and outcomes of a CoE project on ‘learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century’. His short article reminds all history teachers of the need...
    Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

  • Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3.

      Teaching History article
    It is easy enough to incorporate overview and depth studies into a scheme-of-work. Units are carved up into those topics that last for several weeks and those that are covered in one. Isn’t that enough to satisfy the requirements of the National Curriculum? Many teachers have gone much further than...
    Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3.

  • Keeping the kids on message...one school's attempt at helping sixth form students to engage in historical debating using ICT

      Teaching History article
    At post-16 level, keeping the ‘kids’ on message is critical. Teaching and learning must be focused on the relatively narrow goals of the examination syllabus, but set within broader historical and historiographical contexts. Students need to how know, and where, to fit their ideas into those of existing historians. Ideally...
    Keeping the kids on message...one school's attempt at helping sixth form students to engage in historical debating using ICT