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Teaching History 114: Making history personal
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with helping pupils to relate to, and empathise with, history. The Great War, Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitudes, Josephine Butler and significance, The teaching and learning of history for 15-16yr olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the...
Teaching History 114: Making history personal
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Out and About in Derry/Londonderry
Historian feature
Jenni Hyde was out and about in Derry in 2016 and describes how the sights of the city tell the story of a history which is so much more than just the legacy of the Troubles.
Out and About in Derry/Londonderry
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Teaching History 76
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 I Thought It Was For Picking Bones Out Of Soup ... Using Artefacts In The Primary School - Liz Smith and Cathie Holden
10 Understanding Ethnocentrism: History Teachers Talking - Janet Maw
17 Critical History? - Rob Isaac
19 Language Use and Problem Solving in Primary History - Patricia Hoodless...
Teaching History 76
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Teaching History 113: Creating Progress
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with creating progress: History teachers are creating progress - the idea and the reality. Why rely on others to define and design it? The creation process is every teacher's property and there is no celing on what we might help pupils achieve. JFK, Progression models, Roleplay in...
Teaching History 113: Creating Progress
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Kings and coins in later Anglo-Saxon England
Historian article
The study of Anglo-Saxon coins shows the sophistication of tenth- and eleventh-century government and of the economy. But they carried a moral and religious message too.
Kings and coins in later Anglo-Saxon England
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Teaching History 111: Reading History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘Really weird and freaky’: using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom - Mary Woolley (Read article)
13 Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13: a case study on women in the Third Reich - Alison Kitson (Read article)
20...
Teaching History 111: Reading History
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Teaching History 71
The HA's journal for history teachers
10 Bridge that Gap! Are There Opportunities within the National Curriculum to Promote Co-operative Work between History and English? - Ian Davies and Mary Bousted
15 The National Oracy Project - Hilary Kemeny
17 Oral History: Working with Children - Inge Cramer
20 Historically Speaking - Pauline Loader
23 Skilful...
Teaching History 71
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Homosexuality in Britain Since 1967
Historian article
Harry Cocks marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act with an examination of what has happened since this crucial piece of legislation.
Homosexuality in Britain Since 1967
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Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus
The problem page for history mentors
Problem: Mike Jones, student history teacher, is half-way through his PGCE year. He is making unusually good progress in his knowledge, understanding and practice with regard to the use of sources in history. He also appears to have no difficulty with classroom management and relationships with pupils. He easily creates...
Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus
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Teaching History 108: Performing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History: Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi, International relations at GCSE, Using historical fiction in the history classroom, How useful is the music of African-Americans to historians, Using film at AS/A2 Level, Music and history, The unique contribution of theatre to...
Teaching History 108: Performing History
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Teaching History 106: Citizens and Communities
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with the complex debate about whether history should be taught for intrinsic or extrinsic reasons. Balancing the rationaland the emotional in the teaching of contentious topics, Historical significance, Local historical enquiry, Citizenship, Teaching political concepts to post-16 students and much more...
‘Don’t worry, Mr. Trimble. We can...
Teaching History 106: Citizens and Communities
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Primary History pull-out posters 85
Migration to Britain through time, and 'The Ejectment' from Illustrated London News 1848
Migration to Britain through time
‘The Ejectment’ from The Illustrated London News, 16 December 1848 Lordprice Collection Alamy
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Teaching History 105: Talking History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition explores the diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening. Using initial Stimulus Mateial (ISM) to promote enquiry, thinking and literacy, Speaking and listening in Year 7 history, Developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites and much more...
Beyond ‘I speak, you listen, boy!’ Exploring...
Teaching History 105: Talking History
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Teaching History 66
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
7 The Discursive Turn: Tony Bennett and the Textuality of History - Keith Jenkins
17 History Reprieved? - Terry Haydn
21 Overwhelming Evidence: Written Sources and Primary History - Peter Vass
27 Towards a Controllable Time Machine' - Sean O'Conaill
31 Beating the Invader in 1941: A 7-year-old's Experiences - John Kinross
35 Key Stage...
Teaching History 66
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Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Learning to love history: preparation of non-specialist primary school teachers to teach history, Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house, Getting pupils to track their own thinking and much more...
Why Gerry now likes evidential work - Phil Smith (Read article)
Teaching pupils how...
Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation
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Teaching History 68
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
9 History Teaching and Economic Awareness: A Sample Topic - P. J. Rogers
14 A Land Fit for Heroes: Recreating the Past through Drama - Kate Fleming
17 Holt Hall, 1940: A Residential 'Living History' Project - Alan Childs and Mike Pond
20 History and Computers in Dorset - Dave Martin
26 Clear...
Teaching History 68
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Teaching History 103: Puzzling History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition looks at two types of puzzles: first, those we tackle as historians, puzzles about the past and, second, those puzzles that occured for people living in the past, puzzles form their perspectives - dilemmas, decisions and judgements that require us to imagine ourselves into their situation in a...
Teaching History 103: Puzzling History
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Teaching History 67
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 History for Ordinary Children - Terry Haydn
11 'Real Books' and Interpretations of History' in the National Curriculum - Hugh D. J. Nicklin
17 'Just for Laughs?' The History Day as an Experiment in Cross-phase Learning - Derek Peaple
22 The Valence House Project - John Ubsdell and Gillian Gillespie
24 Instuctional...
Teaching History 67
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Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This issue deals with defining and examining the question of what constitutes progress in history. Using audience centred writing to improve progression from Key Stage 2 to 3, Steering your Ofsted inspector into the long-term reasons for classroom success, Using Key Stage 3 to improve performances at GCSE, Learning to...
Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
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Teaching History 95: Learning to Think
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Who wants to fight? Who wants to flee? Teaching history from a ‘thinking skills’ perspective - Jon Nichol (Read article)
Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing - Heidi le Cocq (Read article)
Exceptional performance at GCSE: What makes a starred A? - Angela Leonard (Read article)
Analysing...
Teaching History 95: Learning to Think
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Teaching History 99: Curriculum Planning
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Choosing and planning your enquiry questions in Key Stage 3, The return of King John, Using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change, Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning, Using ICT, Making source evaluation meaningful to Year 7 and much more...
Into the Key...
Teaching History 99: Curriculum Planning
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Teaching History 64
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 The Professional Craft Knowledge of the History Teacher - Peter John
12 Talking about History: Group Work in the Classroom - Practice and Implications - Kenneth Brzezicki
17 Issues in the Teaching of History - Towards a Skills/Concept-led Approach - Jane Jenkins
22 Bebba and her Sisters - Gully Robson
26 Time...
Teaching History 64
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Teaching History 101: History and ICT
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
History and Information Communication Technology, Using ICT in the history classroom, Extending pupils historical vision with limited resources, Using the wordprocessor to connect with knowledge and opinion through revelatory writing, Using the internet to teach about interpretation, Databases, spreadsheets and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3 and much more...
A...
Teaching History 101: History and ICT
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Teaching History 97: Visual History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to ‘layers of inference’ for Key Stage 3 - Claire Riley (Read article)
How long before we need the US Cavalry? The Pittsburgh Conference on ‘Teaching, Knowing and Learning’. - Peter Lee and Ros Ashby (Read article)
Practical...
Teaching History 97: Visual History
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Teaching History 62
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Always Historicise: Unintended Opportunities in National Curriculum History - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley
15 'From Little Acorns Grow...': A Liaison with Nursery, Infant and Junior Schools in the Framwellgate Moor Area of Durham City - D. R. Featonby
19 Standing the World on its Head: A Review of Eurocentrism...
Teaching History 62
