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Engaging Year 9 students in party politics
Teaching History article
Sarah Black wanted to remedy Year 9's lack of knowledge about nineteenth-century politics. With just five lessons to work with, she decided to devise a sequence on Gladstone and Disraeli, shaping the sequence with an enquiry question that invited argument about change and continuity. Black analyses the status and function of different layers of knowledge within her sequence, evaluates the interaction...
Engaging Year 9 students in party politics
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Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims
Teaching History article
Long, unreadable sentences in her students' essays led Rachel Foster to improve her post-16 students' punctuation. Her journey resulted, however, in more than improved punctuation.
It led her to theorise what historians are really doing in their ‘signpost sentences'. She found herself showing students how an academic historian anticipates a chunk of argument in a single, well-turned, opening sentence. Foster created an intervention in which students...
Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims
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Transforming Year 11's conceptual understanding of change
Teaching History article
For all that history teachers appreciate the need to build substantive knowledge and conceptual understanding systematically over time, they are also likely to have experienced that sickening moment when they realise that a Year 11 pupil has somehow missed something fundamental.
In Anna Fielding's case, her pupil's misconception was related to...
Transforming Year 11's conceptual understanding of change
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Building meaningful models of progression
Teaching History article
Setting us free? Building meaningful models of progression for a ‘post-levels' world
Alex Ford was thrilled by the prospect of freedom offered to history departments in England by the abolition of level descriptions within the National Curriculum.
After analysing the range of competing purposes that the level descriptions were previously...
Building meaningful models of progression
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Building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales
Teaching History article
The knowledge that ‘flavours' a claim: towards building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales
While marking some Year 11 essays, Kate Hammond found her interest caught by significant differences between one kind of strong analysis and another. Some scored high marks but were less convincing. The achievement in these...
Building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales
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Assessment after levels
Free Teaching History article
Ten years ago, two heads of department in contrasting schools presented a powerfully-argued case for resisting the use of level descriptions within their assessment regimes. Influenced both by research into the nature of children's historical thinking and by principles of assessment for learning, Sally Burnham and Geraint Brown argued that...
Assessment after levels
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Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War
Teaching History feature
With the publication in 2014 of the Cambridge History of the First World War, we enter a new transnational phase in the historical understanding of the conflict. The reasons why this change has come about are evident.
The first is that there are more transnational historians writing the history of...
Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War
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Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion
Teaching History feature
This issue's problem: Helena Swannick tends to treat differences between historical interpretations simply as matters of opinion.
Helena Swannick is a career changer who has decided to come into teaching after many years' working in human resources and some time at home caring for two young children. Her degree was a...
Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion
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Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
Teaching History article
Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
‘Blackadder for real' is how the British journalist and broadcaster, Ian Hislop, characterised The Wipers Time, the newspaper published on the front line by members of the 12th Battalion Sherwood, and recently brought...
Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
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Helping Year 9 explore the cultural legacies of WW1
Teaching History article
A world turned molten: helping Year 9 to explore the cultural legacies of the First World War
Rachel Foster shows how her own study of cultural history led to a new dimension in her planning. She wanted to show her students not only that historians are interested in many different...
Helping Year 9 explore the cultural legacies of WW1
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Teaching History 20
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3
What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5
Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8
16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10
Comment, 13
Reports:
Language and History Teaching, 15
History...
Teaching History 20
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Teaching History 27
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on contributors, 2
Oral History and the Raj - Andrew Reekes, 4
Programmed Learning and Guided Learning in History - Brian Garvey, 7
From a Victorian Scrapheap - David Jeremy, 10
Simulations and Computers - Richard Ennals, 13
Mr Polly's History, 16
Mission to England - Barbara...
Teaching History 27
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Teaching History 29
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Keith Hodgkinson and Michael Long, 3
Notes and news, 7
Primary School Children's Preception of Authenticity and Time in Historical Narrative Pictures - John West, 8
A Course in Local History Tonbridge and Kent - Andrew Reekes,...
Teaching History 29
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Teaching History 30
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
Down among the Deadmen: Graveyard Surveys for Local Studies - Brian Dix and Richard Smart, 3
Educational Objectives for History - Ten Years On -John Fines, 8
Notes and News, 10
A Primary School's Experiment with a Micro-Computor - James Gent, 11
History Abandoned?...
Teaching History 30
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Teaching History 31
Journal
Editorial, 2
List of Historical Association Area Education Advisers, 3
The 'Records Road Show' or Documents in Essex Classrooms - Ian Mason, 4
Schooling the Local Historian - Gareth Elwyn Jones, 7
Local History Teaching and the Ordinary Child - R. D. Woodall, 10
Lincolnshire Teachers' Views on a 16...
Teaching History 31
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Teaching History 32
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Role of History in Multi-Cultural Education - David Edgington, 3
The Perception of Indian History Teachers about the Ideal Pupil - Vijay K. Raina, 6
Can History Survive? - Trevor Fisher, 8
Report: Teaching A Level History: A Conference Report - Sandra Armstrong, 10
The History Curriculum...
Teaching History 32
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Teaching History 33
Journal
Editorial, 2
History Teaching and Artificial Intelligence - Richard Ennals, 3
Primary Schools: Humanities and Microelectronics - Ron Jones, 6
Choosing and Using Microcomputers: A Charter of Experience - John Wilkes, 9
Report: History and Computers - Frances Blow, 12
Report: Computer Assisted Learning in History - Derek Turner, 13...
Teaching History 33
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Teaching History 41
Journal
Editorial
BEd Students at Work in a Middle School, Michael Gibson 3
Report: The First BALH young Historians' workshop, David Haynes & Ray Acton 5
BBC Educational Broadcasting and Irish History, Victor Kelly 6
Whose Class Is It Anyway? Ian Jones 8
Report: The Second National Conference, Sneh Shalt 11...
Teaching History 41
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Teaching History 54
Journal
Editorial 2
Historical Association News 3
Articles:
Computers in Secondary School History Teaching: an HMI view - Carole Baker and lain Paterson 7
Supporting the Future - MESU and the History Teacher - Sue Bennett 10
An Introduction to Computers in the History Classroom - John Simkin 12
GCSE Course...
Teaching History 54
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Teaching History 58
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
7 National Curriculum History: Interim Report - Martin Booth
10 Teachers' Concerns over the Current Vogue in Teaching History - Peter Truman
17 Story-Telling in History - Alan Farmer
24 'Mr. History': the Achievement of R. J. Unstead Reconsidered - Sean Lang
27 'Let's Think about this': GCSE History - Computer Aided Course...
Teaching History 58
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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
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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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Move Me On 153: Teaching about genocide
Teaching History feature
This issue's problem: Susie Cook is struggling to sustain an emphasis on developing historical knowledge and understanding in teaching about genocide.
Susie Cook worked for nearly ten years as a web designer before deciding to move into teaching. Once she had secured her place on the programme she spent several months...
Move Me On 153: Teaching about genocide
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An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide
Teaching History article
It is common practice to invite survivors of the Holocaust to speak about their experiences to pupils in schools and colleges. Systematic reflection on the value of working with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides and on how to make the most of doing so is rarer, however. In...
An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide
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History, music and law: commemorative cross-curricularity
Teaching History article
James Woodcock continues his theme from Teaching History 138 about the difference between superficial, thematic cross-curricularity and much more rigorous interdisciplinarity. His concern is to retain rather than compromise the integrity of the subject disciplines. Woodcock argues that interdisciplinary working adds value to learning only when the knowledge and the distinctive...
History, music and law: commemorative cross-curricularity
