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  • The QCA history scheme of work for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. QCA's scheme of work for history at Key Stage 3, together with similar schemes for other subjects, has been published in response to widespread requests for more guidance on curriculum planning. Heather Richardson, Subject Officer (history)...
    The QCA history scheme of work for Key Stage 3

  • Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem:Joe Priestley is having problems providing sufficient challenge for the higher attainers within his mixed ability groups Joe Priestley has settled into his training placement very well and has impressed other members of the history department with his lively and engaging ideas. In his early teaching he was...
    Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

  • Cunning Plan 134: local history at KS3

      Teaching History feature
    Question: How can we plan to integrate local history into Key Stage 3 schemes of work so that pupils are engaged by the relevance of the subject across different periods of time? Local history can come in all shapes and sizes, from a large-scale oral history project to the perusal...
    Cunning Plan 134: local history at KS3

  • Bringing environmental history into the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Curious about the absence of the physical environment in her school’s schemes of work, and fascinated by the changing relationships between humans and landscapes in the past, history teacher and PhD researcher Verity Morgan decided to design new lessons that brought environmental history into her classroom. Rather than ‘bolting on’ new enquiries...
    Bringing environmental history into the classroom

  • Move Me On 124: Teaching local history

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Lucy Hutchinson is finding it difficult to teach local history well. Now her new mentor has asked her to plan a local history dimension into the 1750-1900 scheme of work.
    Move Me On 124: Teaching local history

  • Move Me On 175: paying attention to why topics have been included in schemes of work

      The problem page for history mentors
    This issue's problem: Martha Partington doesn't pay enough attention to the reasons why particular topics or approaches to them have been included with her department’s schemes of work...
    Move Me On 175: paying attention to why topics have been included in schemes of work

  • Triumphs Show 173: Teaching Black Tudors

      Teaching History journal feature
    I am ashamed to admit that, until recently, my teaching of black history did not go beyond schemes of work on the transatlantic slave trade and the civil rights movement in the USA. This all changed in November 2017 when I heard Dr Miranda Kaufmann on the ‘BBC History Extra’...
    Triumphs Show 173: Teaching Black Tudors

  • Cunning Plan 112: Empire

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Empire’ is an historical concept with a rather imprecise range of meanings. Students need to be able to track their changing understanding of what an empire actually is. Into our workschemes for Years 7 to 13 we have therefore introduced a number of enquiry questions that simultaneously build knowledge about...
    Cunning Plan 112: Empire

  • The new history 'AS-Level': principles for planning a scheme of work

      Teaching History article
    The new AS and A2 specifications have led to paperwork, headaches and late nights for teachers. Rachael Rudham recognises the fresh demands that the new AS-level presents – not least of which is the opening up of post-16 history to a broader range of ability. Clearly it is not possible...
    The new history 'AS-Level': principles for planning a scheme of work

  • A search beyond the classroom: using a museum to support the renewal of a scheme of work

      Teaching History Article
    How many times have you been to a museum or a historical building or a significant place and thought that you want to capture some of its essence to bring back to your pupils? The challenges of geography, risk, expense and staffing can all act as limitations in the planning...
    A search beyond the classroom: using a museum to support the renewal of a scheme of work

  • Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

      Teaching History feature
    Enquiry Question: What's worth knowing about the First World War? At the end of our scheme of work on the First World War, I asked myself how I might encourage my Year 9 pupils to reflect on the historical significance of the events we had studied. I was particularly interested...
    Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

  • Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom

      Teaching History feature
    Big ideas, making connections, citizenship, thinking skills. We were nothing if not ambitious in our planning for this unit for a lower attaining Year 8 group at Langley School in Solihull. Having identified the big ideas which could underpin a dialogue between history and citizenship and make the connections between...
    Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom

  • What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia

      Teaching History article
    Is it structure or the selection of knowledge that makes writing historical narrative so difficult? Where does a conceptual focus on change, or causation, come in? James Ellis set out to explore the challenges his Year 9 pupils faced in writing historical narratives about change. Inspired by the work of...
    What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia

  • Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

      Teaching History feature
    History teachers have been talking about the need to teach broad narratives, overview and chronology for a long time. They have also recognised how essential it is for students to have an opportunity to study the ways in which the past has been interpreted, and the reasons why these interpretations...
    Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

  • Teaching History 69

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Young Children's Thinking in History Hilary Cooper 8 The Magnificent Seven: Reasons for Teaching about Prehistory Peter Stone 13 National Curriculum History, Schemes of Work and the Primary School Child Brian Scott 19 Delivering the Primary History Curriculum Keith Crawford and Graham Rogers 22 The...
    Teaching History 69

  • New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective

      Teaching History article
    In September 2002 Citizenship becomes a completely new subject in England’s secondary schools. Jerome Freeman, Principal Officer for History with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) — the authority responsible for advising the British government on curriculum content and qualification standards in England - outlines QCA’s view on the connections...
    New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective

  • 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

  • Move Me On 161: Knowledge & Understanding

      Teaching History feature
    This issue’s problem: Caroline Herschel doesn’t really notice and respond effectively to what the lesson she has just taught reveals about students’ knowledge and understanding. Caroline Herschel is a hard-working, conscientious trainee who is anxious to feel that she has got things ‘right’. She is well organised and plans lessons well...
    Move Me On 161: Knowledge & Understanding

  • Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

      Teaching History article
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society Elizabeth Carr writes here about a new scheme of work she developed to teach students about diversity in Victorian society. When dealing with a concept such as diversity, it can be easy for students to slip into stereotypes based...
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

  • Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

      Teaching History Article
    The question of what to include is a constant challenge to those given the responsibility of education, whether writing at the level of a national curriculum or the departmental scheme of work. Dan Lyndon and his department have been rethinking inclusion in history. In any school, representative history is essential...
    Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

  • Knowledge and the Draft NC

      Teaching History article
    Silk purse from a sow's ear? Why knowledge matters and why the draft History NC will not improve it Katie Hall and Christine Counsell attempt to construct a Key Stage 3 scheme of work out of the draft National Curriculum for history that was released for consultation in England in...
    Knowledge and the Draft NC

  • Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    During her PGCE year, it became evident to Rachel Coleman just how much pupils struggled with the complicated nature of history. They were troubled in particular by the lack of definitive answers, by the range of perspectives that might be held at the time of a particular event or development...
    Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated

  • How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?

      Teaching History article
    Susanna Boyd ‘discovered’ women’s history while studying for her own history degree, and laments women’s continued absence from the school history curriculum. She issues a call-to-arms to make the curriculum more inclusive both by re-evaluating the criteria for curricular selection and by challenging established disciplinary conventions. She also weighs up...
    How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?

  • The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes

      Teaching History article
    Holly Hiscox was concerned that many of her A-level students – asked to evaluate three different historical interpretations for their non-examined assessment task – still tended to hold unhelpful misconceptions about the nature of interpretations. In this article she explains how she created an introductory scheme of work to help them understand...
    The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 162: GCSE Thematic Study

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Thematic studies have been a long-standing feature of the Schools History Project (SHP) GCSE specifications in England and Wales; but for teachers of ‘Modern World’ GCSE specifications, the thematic study in the new GCSE specifications for teaching in England from September 2016 is unfamiliar territory. Perhaps you are entirely new...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 162: GCSE Thematic Study