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  • Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism

      Teaching History article
    ‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an overview of antisemitism Research by the Centre for Holocaust Education has suggested that students need and want more help with building an overview of the historical roots of antisemitism and that they...
    Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism
  • Teaching History 75

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 The Dearing Final Report - Threat or Opportunity? Carol White 7 Responses to the Dearing Report: History Post-16 Laurie Taylor 9 Making Dearing Enduring - A Personal View Roy Hughes 11 Teaching History at Key Stage 2 - One School's Approach Russell Carter 13 implementing...
    Teaching History 75
  • What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Robin Conway suspected that his students’ concepts of the significance of different aspects of historical periods was affected by the preconceptions that they brought to his lessons. These preconceptions were leading his students into making unhistorical judgments, without any real understanding on their part of what had affected their thinking....
    What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance
  • Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

      Teaching History article
    ‘Empathy with edge' was the editorial description given eight years ago to the kind of historical fiction that Dave Martin and Beth Brooke first argued history students should be writing (TH 108). The winning entries from the annual ‘Write Your Own Historical Story Competition' to which their work gave rise...
    Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution
  • Cunning Plan 152.1: visual sources

      Teaching History feature
    The principles outlined here were developed in response to three key concerns. The first was consideration of the needs of students learning English as an additional language who face particular challenges with reading and writing. Images could perhaps offer them more direct, less abstract, ways into an understanding of challenging...
    Cunning Plan 152.1: visual sources
  • Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking

      Teaching History article
    A case study in professional thinking Michael Fordham examines the evolution of his own practice as an example of how history teachers draw upon collective, professional knowledge constructed by other history teachers in journals, books, conferences and seminars. Fordham explains how a  particular Year 7 enquiry examining historical change from the...
    Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking
  • 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
  • Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past

      Teaching History article
    Jacob Olivey wanted Year 8 to know that ordinary people in the nineteenth century constructed their own identities. In this reflection on how his practice developed in his training year, Olivey illustrates the importance of using historical scholarship in choosing foundational knowledge to teach. He shows how he used that...
    Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past
  • Teaching History 52

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Controversial Women - Hilary Bourdillas and Paula Bartley 10 Sources for Course - Malcolm Pearce 15 A Level History: On Historical Facts, and Other Problems - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley 19 The End of British History - Stephen Howarth 25 Renewed School History: An...
    Teaching History 52
  • 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
  • Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
    Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
  • Period, place and mental space

      Teaching History article
    Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by...
    Period, place and mental space
  • Teaching History 72

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 2: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Pam Harper 11 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 3: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Tony McAleavy 14 A Way of Looking at History: Local-National-World Links - Sylvia L. Collicott 18...
    Teaching History 72
  • Continuity in the treatment of mental health through time

      Teaching History article
    Where's the other ‘c'? Year 9 examine continuity in the treatment of mental health through time Helen Murray, Rachel Burney and Andrew Stacey-Chapman show how they strengthened three goals of their practice - secure knowledge, narrative shapes and conceptual analysis - by securing strong connection between them. The curricular focus...
    Continuity in the treatment of mental health through time
  • Professional wrestling in the history department: a case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at key stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Three years ago (TH 99, Curriculum Planning Edition), Michael Riley illustrated ways in which history departments could exploit the increased flexibility of the revised National Curriculum. He showed that precisely-worded enquiry questions, positioned thoughtfully across the Key Stage, help to ensure progression, challenge and coherence. His picturesque image for this...
    Professional wrestling in the history department: a case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at key stage 3
  • Bringing psychology into history: why do some stories disappear?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History is always a relationship between the present and the past and the meaning of the past shifts as values and events change in the present. In this article Anne Llewellyn and Helen Snelson use...
    Bringing psychology into history: why do some stories disappear?
  • Developing meaningful cross-curricular approaches

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Some history departments find themselves under pressure to incorporate skills and competences from alternative curricula. Others find that with the pressure to ease transition issues in Year 7, history can almost disappear into an amalgam...
    Developing meaningful cross-curricular approaches
  • Move Me On 147: Making Analogies Meaningful

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Emma Norman finds the analogies that she's using to make historical ideas meaningful end up distracting or confusing the students. Emma has come into history teaching after a number of years at home looking after children. Her previous work was as a fundraiser for an environmental campaign group,...
    Move Me On 147: Making Analogies Meaningful
  • Having 'Great Expectations' of Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What scope does studying a classic novel in both English and history provide for meaningful cross-curricular work and how might engaging with historical fiction help pupils engage more effectively with the realities of the past?...
    Having 'Great Expectations' of Year 9
  • 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
  • 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
  • Teaching History 68

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: History Teaching and Economic Awareness: A Sample Topic P. J. Rogers 9 A Land Fit for Heroes: Recreating the Past through Drama Kate Fleming 14 Holt Hall, 1940: A Residential 'Living History' Project Alan Childs and Mike Pond 17 History and Computers in Dorset Dave Martin...
    Teaching History 68
  • 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
  • Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

      Teaching History feature
    ‘The Beatles were history-makers from the start,' proclaimed the liner notes for the band's first LP in March 1963. It was a bold claim to make on behalf of a beat combo with one charttopping single, but the Beatles' subsequent impact on 1960s culture put their historical importance (if not...
    Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles
  • Move Me On 105: Teaching historical interpretations

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Charles Marks, PGCE history student, is very confused about teaching historical interpretations.
    Move Me On 105: Teaching historical interpretations