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  • Teaching History 184: Different lenses

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Beyond myth and magic: Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire – Paula Worth (Read article) 22 They sometimes clashed, and ultimately blended: planning a more...
    Teaching History 184: Different lenses

  • When computers don't give you a headache: the most able lead a debate on medicine through time

      Teaching History article
    Dan Moorhouse begins with a complaint about ICT. It is not the clichéd teacher-complaint – that the computers keep crashing, and the students are messing around on the Internet (and how, exactly, do you turn the things on?) Instead, he observes that the use of ICT in the classroom is...
    When computers don't give you a headache: the most able lead a debate on medicine through time

  • Mummy Mummy 181

      Teaching History feature
    Mummy, mummy, when can we go and visit the Brutish Museum? Not now, dear. Mummy’s trying to draft a letter to the head, explaining why the fact that the department has successfully taught a thematic unit on the history of medicine for more than 40 years, is not necessarily a good reason for insisting...
    Mummy Mummy 181

  • Teaching History 87

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    6 Reading the Bickersteth Diaries - John Bickersteth 8 History at Home - Rob David 14 Nuffield Primary Project (Part I) - John Fines 21 Our History or Your History? (Part 2) - Gillian Wilson 24 Key Stage 2 Multi Cultural Issues (Part I) - Marika Sherwood 27 Primary School...
    Teaching History 87

  • Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

      Teaching History article
    The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) is a Cyprus-based organization that works to foster dialogue among history teachers and other educators across the divide in Cyprus. In one of their UN-funded projects, ADHR members worked with UK colleagues to shape a lesson sequence and resources on the Ottoman period...
    Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

  • Maps, ICT and History: A revolution in learning

      Article
    Lez Smart outlines exciting new developments in digitalisation of maps which could transform pupils' work on continuity and change, on diversity of society, on local history and much more. Above all, he shows how easy to use (and how cheap!) this new resource will be. Lez Smart explains the opportunities...
    Maps, ICT and History: A revolution in learning

  • Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley

      Teaching History article
    Thelma Wiltshire applies a ‘telling' and ‘suggesting' strategy to an enquiry involving an historical site. Getting beyond more simplistic approaches to ‘fact' and ‘opinion', she describes how a pack of curriculum materials was designed to give pupils a precise language to talk about layers of certainty and uncertainty in their...
    Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley

  • Touching, feeling, smelling, and sensing history through objects

      Teaching History article
    Lots has been written in recent years about how history teachers can bring academic scholarship into the classroom. This article  takes this interest in academic practice a step further, examining how pupils can engage directly with the kinds of sources to which historians are increasingly turning their attention: the ‘everyday’ objects of ordinary life. Building on...
    Touching, feeling, smelling, and sensing history through objects

  • Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Kimberley Anthony and her history colleagues were troubled by Year 9's assumption that World War II was the only interesting thing that they were going to do in Year 9. Nineteenth-century industrialisation, even their own...
    Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century

  • Maybe they haven't decided yet what is right: English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Historians and history teachers understand well that students, when they ‘answer’ questions, are creating their own interpretation. We take account of this in our teaching too: we do not pretend that, beyond the level of the simplest closed questioning, there is ever a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer approach to history....
    Maybe they haven't decided yet what is right: English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance

  • Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites

      Teaching History article
    Working visits to historical sites for the purposes of developing pupils’ historical understanding can be extremely useful. As part of their training, student teachers need to acquire understanding and skills in the planning and management of worthwhile ‘fieldwork’. This work can be very powerful indeed if it emerges from co-operation...
    Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites

  • Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

      Teaching History feature
    It was the brainwave of the English department to bring in a script writer to work with Key Stage 3 students of the full ability range writing the lower school production. This was too good an opportunity for the history department to miss.
    Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

  • Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: Melville Miles, student history teacher, is in Term 3 of his PGCE year. Melville has taught a number of excellent lessons in which he enabled pupils to reach high levels of historical understanding. His diagnostic assessment of pupils' work is unusually sophisticated for a PGCE student. Melville's...
    Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

  • Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: William Cuffay, PGCE student, is struggling to find a questioning style which will develop pupils' thinking. Problem: William Cuffay is half way through the second term of his PGCE course and is showing considerable promise. He is thorough in his lesson preparation, and has a clear sense...
    Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking

  • Teaching History 197: Public History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update: Talk more to write better 08 Beyond and behind the ‘quiet bus lady’: tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9 – Ed Durbin (Read article) 16 Who inherits the house? Using heritage to shape pupils’ thinking about...
    Teaching History 197: Public History

  • Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Fred North treats ‘Assessment for Learning' as though it is a bolt-on extra unconnected to his learning objectives Fred is an enthusiastic trainee who has generally made a good impression on students and colleagues over the course of his first term. He has been determined to establish a...
    Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

  • The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Much has been said and written about different learning styles in recent years. Some people have responded with evangelical enthusiasm, others exercise a more cautious approach, whilst a few disregard it completely. Certainly, there are...
    The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles

  • Cunning Plan 114: building overview understanding of 19th-century social history

      Teaching History feature
    This five-lesson sequence gradually builds overview understanding of aspects of 19th century social history through a depth study of the campaigner and reformer, Josephine Butler. Through the sequence, pupils build on earlier work on historical significance, first, by reviewing their understanding of the huge range of reasons why things get...
    Cunning Plan 114: building overview understanding of 19th-century social history

  • Move Me On 99: Struggling with just about everything

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Sophie Scholl, PGCE Student. is experiencing very seious difficulties...in just about everything. Problem: Sophie is approaching the end of her second school placement. It was clear from her first placement report that she was finding the process of learning to teach extremely difficult, but she displayed a...
    Move Me On 99: Struggling with just about everything

  • Cunning Plan 98: Britain 1750-1900

      Teaching History feature
    Isaac Newton: ‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction'. Learning that results from action and reaction deepens pupils' understanding of historical content and use of key study skills. It forces them to understand, to wrestle, to articulate, to challenge, to question. Getting pupils to act and react...
    Cunning Plan 98: Britain 1750-1900

  • Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry

      Journal article
    Inspired by the claim that local history can be taught effectively ‘Any time, any place, anywhere’, Katharine Burn and Jason Todd took up the challenge of planning Key Stage 3 enquiries related to an unusual and diverse, but frequently neglected and often despised, corner of Oxford. They sought not merely...
    Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry

  • 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

  • Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

      Teaching History article
    The work of Gary Howells will be familiar to many readers of Teaching History—indeed, his last article is heavily cited elsewhere in this edition. He presents here the case in favour of using sources at AS level (16-17 years old). Clearly, historians need to have some form of acquaintance with...
    Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

  • Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes particular problems can lead to unexpected solutions. In this case, Sally Burnham decided to solve a problem that she had identified among her Year 12 students by changing the way in which she teaches Year 7. Her Year 12s were finding it difficult to set appropriate questions for their...
    Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

  • Circle Time in the secondary history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Circle Time is a commonly used technique in primary classrooms and is sometimes used in secondary personal and social education lessons. This open form of classroom organisation allows pupils to share opinions in a democratic...
    Circle Time in the secondary history classroom