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Teaching History 33
Journal
Editorial, page 2
History Teaching and Artificial Intelligence - Richard Ennals, page 3
Primary Schools: Humanities and Microelectronics - Ron Jones, page 6
Choosing and Using Microcomputers: A Charter of Experience -John Wilkes, page 9
Report: History and Computers - Frances Blow, page 12
Report: Computer Assisted Learning in History...
Teaching History 33
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Time for a story
Using stories in the Early Years and Foundation Stage
Stories are an important part of a young child’s way of making sense of their world. Hilary Cooper’s excellent article ‘Why Stories?’ explores some of the reasons why stories are important to young children and their growing ‘understanding of the world’. This article is going to explore some recommended stories...
Time for a story
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Teaching History 139: Analysing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7 analyse the changing relationship of Henry II and Becket - Tim Jenner (Read article)
11 Encountering diversity in the history of ideas: engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about ‘progress' - Jonathan White (Read article)
14 Cunning Plan: Teaching about...
Teaching History 139: Analysing History
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Teaching History 138: Enriching History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Alf Wilkinson: Making cross-curricular links in history: some ways forward (Read article)
08 James Woodcock: Disciplining cross-curricularity? Cottenham Village College history department's inter-disciplinary projects: an evaluation (Read article)
13 Michael Monaghan: Having ‘Great Expectations' of Year 9 Inter-disciplinary work between English and history...
Teaching History 138: Enriching History
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 81
What was it like to be a child in World War II? and Images of three female pilots
1. What was it like to be a child in World War II? 2. Three female pilots - can you use the words in the box to talk about each pilot?
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 81
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Teaching History 134: Local Voices
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance – Geraint Brown and James Woodcock (Read article)
12 Cunning Plan: Local history at KS3 – Dan Moorhouse (Read article)
15 Nutshell
16 Riots, railways and a Hampshire hill fort: exploiting local...
Teaching History 134: Local Voices
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Teaching History 133: Simulating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age – Ben Walsh (Read article)
10 How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable – Dan Moorhouse (Read article)
17 Nutshell
18 ‘If everyone’s got to vote then, obviously…...
Teaching History 133: Simulating History
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Out and About in Ryedale
Historian feature
Tom Pickles explores Ryedale in Yorkshire, where an extraordinary network of churches bears witness to the social, political, and religious transformations of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Out and About in Ryedale
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Anglo-Saxon women and power
Historian article
Elite Anglo-Saxon women played a powerful role in the religious affairs and politics of their day and were important patrons of learning and culture.
Anglo-Saxon women and power
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66
Process map for writing a new Scheme of Work for history
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68
Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC; The Dark Ages
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book
Historian article
Dave Martin interviews the author of Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions, winner of the Fawcett Prize and the Emily Toth Award.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book
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Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Speed cameras, dead ends, drivers and diversions: Year 9 use a ‘road map’ to problematise change and continuity – Rachel Foster (Read article)
09 The Holy Grail? GCSE History that actually enhances historical understanding! – Katie Hall (Read article)
17 ‘Create something interesting...
Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently
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Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
04 HA Secondary News
06 Unnatural and essential: the nature of historical thinking – Sam Wineburg (Read article)
13 Nutshell
14 New alchemy or fatal attraction? History and citizenship – Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt (Read article)
20 Polychronicon: Peterloo – Robert Poole (Read article)
22 Interdisciplinary forays...
Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds
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Teaching History 125: Significance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘Maybe they haven’t decided yet what is right:’ English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance – Lis Cercadillo (Read article)
10 What they think they know: the impact of pupils’ preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance – Robin Conway (Read article)
16 Polychronicon: The Norman Conquest - Tony McConnell
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Teaching History 125: Significance
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New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative
Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
Narrative is shedding its status as the ‘underrated skill’, re-emerging as a requirement of the new GCSE in England. As Counsell has argued, constructing a narrative is ‘no easy option’, however, and asking students to ‘Write an account…’ lacks the comfortable familiarity of ‘Explain why…’ or ‘How far…’. Fortunately, many...
New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative
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Local history and literacy using written (and other) sources
Primary History article
Jo Barkham shows how creative and challenging teaching can stimulate and engage even the youngest pupils in the reading of written, printed and multi-modal sources...
Local history and literacy using written (and other) sources
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New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance
Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
Historical significance first appeared in England’s National Curriculum for history in 1995. It entered the assessment framework (Level Descriptions) in 2008. In 2014, it became part of the History NC ‘Aims’. One thing never changes, however: it is hard.
But history teachers have written a great deal about historical significance...
New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance
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Teaching History 122: Rethinking History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Why don’t the Chinese play cricket? Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire – Steven Mastin and Pieter Wallace (Read article)
15 More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3 – Robert Guyver (Read article)
24 Polychronicon: Whose conspiracy? The plot of...
Teaching History 122: Rethinking History
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Teaching History 119: Language
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their causal reasoning – James Woodcock (Read article)
24 Are you ready for your close-up? – Heather Scott with Judith Kidd (Read article)
15 The Tudor monarchy in crisis: using a historian’s account to stretch the most able...
Teaching History 119: Language
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Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area
The problem page for history mentors
This Issue's Problem: Because of the demands of the modular structure on non-specialists, the school's Key Stage 3 schemes of work are extremely detailed, and include individual lesson plans that staff are encouraged to use or adapt depending on their level of confidence. Arnie began by relying on the plan...
Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area
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Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Does differentiation have to mean different? – Richard Harris (Read article)
13 Engaging with each other: how interactions between teachers inform professional practice – Simon Letman (Read article)
17 Seeing, hearing and doing the Rennaissance (Part 2) – Maria Osowiecki (Read article)
26 Polychronicon: Henry VII: Diligent bureaucrat or paranoid blunderer? (Read...
Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation
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Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05’Why can’t they just live together happily, Miss?’ Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE – Alison Stephen (Read article)
11 Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE – Chris Culpin (Read article)
15 Cunning Plan: Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after...
Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions
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Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with how to help pupils to notice in themselves those assumptions that are based on their own familiar world and which actually get in the way of making sense of past actions and belief. How one period visualises another, Ideas for developing chronological understanding, Modern day parallels...
Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance
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Teaching History 115: Assesment Without Levels?
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Assessment without Level Descriptions - Sally Burnham and Geraint Brown (Read article)
16 Dr Black Box or How I learned to stop worrying and love assessment - Mark Cottingham (Read article)
26 Rigorous, meaningful and robust: practical ways forward for assessment - Simon Harrison (Read article)
31 Opportunities, challenges...
Teaching History 115: Assesment Without Levels?
