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  • Teaching History 60

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 9 The Nature of History and the National Curriculum - Michael Honeybone  11 Information Processing in Primary History Topic Work - Philip Powell  14 Blickling 1698 - Alan Childs and Mike Pond  17 The Women in Modern Britain Project - Sebastian Bees  21 The Time Machine: A Cross Curricular Approach to Teaching History...
    Teaching History 60

  • 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

  • What’s the wisdom on… Evidence and sources

      Teaching History feature
    The year 1910 saw the publication of a remarkable book on history teaching by M.W.Keatinge. The purpose of this guide. What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching....
    What’s the wisdom on… Evidence and sources

  • A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

      Teaching History article
    Are top sets always our top priority? Of course, we know that every child matters (should that now have capital letters?) but those of us who teach in an ability-setted context also know that a bottom set left unable to access the curriculum is likely to pose bigger problems than...
    A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

  • 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

  • ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge

      Teaching History journal article
    Chloe Bateman recognised the value to her Key Stage 3 pupils of developing rich subject knowledge, but wanted to find a way of encouraging them to value that knowledge for themselves. In this article she explains how she provided that inspiration by setting her Year 7 class the challenge of...
    ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge

  • History and Mathematics or History with Mathematics: does it add up?

      Teaching History article
    Ian Phillips expresses some frustration with the way the Numeracy across the Curriculum strand of England’s Key Stage 3 Strategy is sometimes presented. He argues that the acid test of cross-curricular numeracy is the value of mathematical understanding in aiding historical thinking and imagination. He criticises attempts to plant numeracy...
    History and Mathematics or History with Mathematics: does it add up?

  • ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’

      Teaching History journal article
    Identifying the challenges his students faced both with recall and analysis of the content they had learned for their GCSE course, Ed Durbin devised a solution which focused not on exam skills and revision lessons, but on using Key Stage 3 to build the ‘hinterland’ of contextual knowledge and causal...
    ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’

  • Teaching History 115: Assesment Without Levels?

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    05 Assessment without Level Descriptions - Sally Burnham and Geraint Brown (Read article) 16 Dr Black Box or How I learned to stop worrying and love assessment - Mark Cottingham (Read article) 26 Rigorous, meaningful and robust: practical ways forward for assessment - Simon Harrison (Read article) 31 Opportunities, challenges...
    Teaching History 115: Assesment Without Levels?

  • Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning

      Teaching History article
    Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning: Year 9 dig out maps and rulers to challenge generalisations about the Age of Discovery Paula Worth presents in this article a means of challenging students' tendency to generalise even when they know that they should not. How can we encourage our students...
    Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning

  • Building and assessing learner autonomy within the Key Stage 3 history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Oliver Knight is an experienced Advanced Skills Teacher who has taught in four different secondary schools, three of them multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-cultural and at least two wrestling with significant problems arising from social deprivation....
    Building and assessing learner autonomy within the Key Stage 3 history classroom

  • Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Build it in, don’t bolt it on: history’s opportunity to support critical citizenship - Andrew Wrenn (Read article) Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical - Lindsey Rayner (Read article) Democracy is not boring - Sean Lang (Read article) Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support...
    Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity

  • Investigating ‘sense of place’ with Year 9 pupils

      Teaching History article
    Confined to his home during lockdown in 2020, teacher Josh Mellor became eager to explore the history of the physical environment on his doorstep. After reading about different approaches to using environmental history in the classroom, Mellor decided to design an enquiry to explore the changing landscape of the Fens in...
    Investigating ‘sense of place’ with Year 9 pupils

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 140: leading a school re-enactment group

      Teaching History feature
    Who would true valour see...let him (or her) lead a school re-enactment group While many teachers may have called on the services of historical re-enactors to inspire their students and create a living sense of the past, few have taken on the challenge of establishing their own historical re-enactment group....
    Triumphs Show 140: leading a school re-enactment group

  • Teaching History 57

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 7 'Not the White Tights again!': Role-play in History Teaching at Degree Level - Ian Dawson  14 The Impact of GCSE History on Further Education - Ian Aveyard  17 Some Sixth-Former's Views of History - Janice C. Vaudry  25 A Small Oral History Project in Four Rural Cumbrian Primary Schools - Dilys M....
    Teaching History 57

  • Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    History is the study of the past; some of the past is more recent than a glance over many schemes of work might lead us to think. Chris Culpin makes the case for ignoring the 20 year rule and tackling head on – and, crucially, historically – the big issues...
    Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

  • 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

  • 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

  • Teaching History 44

      Journal
    Editorial Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol An Appreciation of Joe Hunt Childwrite, Teresa Clark Computer Update The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift The Contributors Town and Country in the...
    Teaching History 44

  • Teaching History 59

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: History and Economic Awareness in the National Curriculum - David Kerr Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Women's History through Local History - Dave Welbourne Keeping the Past under Review - Linda Vitagliano and Peter Lim History as Ethnography: a Pyschological Evaluation of a Theatre in Education Project - George Shand, Rosemary Linnell and Derek...
    Teaching History 59

  • Teachng History 40

      Journal
    Editorial 2 `On Monday I Took Back the Armour and the Video's, Ross Lee and Richard Davis 3 Committed Historiography and History Teaching in Nigerian Secondary Schools, Noel A. Ihebuzor 8 Report: Historical Consciousness and Identity, Charles Hannam 11 The European Dimension and German History, T.C. Lewis 12 Outstanding History...
    Teachng History 40

  • Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’?

      Teaching History article
    Maya Stiasny was faced with difficulties familiar to many of us. Her new Year 12 students were struggling to get to grips with a new period of history. They were not interrogating primary sources with sufficient vigour. Her solution, detailed here, was novel. Working on the rich social history of post-war...
    Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’?

  • ‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Having specialised in the history of material culture during her degree, Gabriella West was struck by the dismissive attitude of her pupils towards the study of material objects from the past. She therefore set out to find the perfect object through which to induct her Year 8 pupils into the history...
    ‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8

  • Assessment of students' uses of evidence

      Teaching History article
    Drawing on her research into students' evidential reasoning, Elisabeth Pickles explores the possibilities for how such reasoning might be assessed. Existing exam mark schemes focus too heavily on generic processes involved in the analysis of source material and insufficiently on the historical validity of reasoning and conclusions produced. Approaching the...
    Assessment of students' uses of evidence