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  • Teaching History 104: Teaching the Holocaust

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History including: Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah, Teaching pupils to reflect on significance, Teaching the Holocaust: the experience of Yad Vashem, Working as a team to teach the Holocaust: a langauge centred approach, Moral dilemmas, Challenging sterotypes and avoiding the superficial, Armenia and...
    Teaching History 104: Teaching the Holocaust

  • Promote the past, celebrate the present: putting your history department in the news

      Teaching History article
    Dan Collins urges history teachers to promote both their subject and their department in the local press. Drawing on his experience of a history department in a large, mixed, multi-cultural comprehensive school in West London, Dan argues that there are many opportunities available, from national anniversaries to the success of...
    Promote the past, celebrate the present: putting your history department in the news

  • 'You be Britain and I'll be Germany...' Inter-school e-mailing in Year 9

      Teaching History article
    E-mailing is fast becoming our preferred means of communication and for good reason. It is immediate: we can fire off a few lines and receive a reply within seconds. It is also flexible: unlike a telephone conversation, we do not have to reply there and then; we can go away...
    'You be Britain and I'll be Germany...' Inter-school e-mailing in Year 9

  • Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

      Teaching History article
    How do we help pupils to write better paragraphs without actually doing it for them? How do we break down the process of essay writing into smaller steps without taking away pupils’ sense of the essay as a whole? How do we give lower-attaining pupils models, structures and frames without...
    Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

  • Teaching History 59

      Journal
    Editorial News 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...
    Teaching History 59

  • Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Learning to love history: preparation of non-specialist primary school teachers to teach history, Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house, Getting pupils to track their own thinking and much more... Why Gerry now likes evidential work - Phil Smith (Read article) Teaching pupils how...
    Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation

  • Narrative: the under-rated skill

      Teaching History article
    ‘Mere narrative’, ‘lapses into narrative’, ‘a narrative answer that fails to answer the question set’. These phrases flow in the blood of history teachers, from public examination criteria to regular classroom discourse. Whilst most of us use narrative in our teaching methods, we have demonised narrative in pupils’ written answers....
    Narrative: the under-rated skill

  • Disembarking the religious rollercoaster

      Teaching History article
    Sarah Jackson-Buckley and Jessie Phillips found themselves perennially dissatisfied with the outcomes of their teaching of the Protestant Reformation. Determined that students should take away a sense of the momentous political and social consequences of the Reformation, they turned to historical scholarship, and to the work of other history teachers on...
    Disembarking the religious rollercoaster

  • Teaching History 101: History and ICT

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    History and Information Communication Technology, Using ICT in the history classroom, Extending pupils historical vision with limited resources, Using the wordprocessor to connect with knowledge and opinion through revelatory writing, Using the internet to teach about interpretation, Databases, spreadsheets and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3 and much more... A...
    Teaching History 101: History and ICT

  • Teaching History 58

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: National Curriculum History: Interim Report Martin Booth 7 Teachers' Concerns over the Current Vogue in Teaching History Peter Truman 10 Story-Telling in History Alan Farmer 17 `Mr. History': the Achievement of R. J. Unstead Reconsidered Sean Lang 24 'Let's Think about this': GCSE History -...
    Teaching History 58

  • Teaching History 57

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: 'Not the White Tights again!': Role-play in History Teaching at Degree Level Ian Dawson 7 The Impact of GCSE History on Further Education Ian Aveyard 14 Some Sixth-Former's Views of History Janice C. Vaudry 17 A Small Oral History Project in Four Rural Cumbrian Primary...
    Teaching History 57

  • Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

      Teaching History article
    The current specifications for AS/A2 history require students to study change over a period of at least 100 years. Given that the 100 year study represents just one module out of six and also that it may not complement any of the other modules selected and may therefore be wholly...
    Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

  • Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Exploring Values Through History, Rethinking roleplay, Gladstone spritual of Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2, Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley, NQT's, Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing and much more... ‘I’ve been in the Reichstag’: rethinking roleplay - Ian Luff...
    Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling

  • Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Mike Tillbrook examines the impact of the new AS and A2 courses, raising several serious concerns. He explores problems for effective and rigorous assessment as well as implications of the new course structure for the quality and range of historical learning. Critical of new restrictions in content, he suggests that...
    Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum

  • Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham continues a theme explored by many other teacher-authors in recent years, how to ensure that progression does not just stop in Year 9, leaving pupils stagnant in key areas of historical learning before getting picked up again in Year 12. He produces a more thorough rationale and commentary...
    Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

  • Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge

      Teaching History article
    Up until the early 1990s, historical knowledge sometimes had rather a bad press. Various developments, in National Curriculum, at GCSE and, importantly, in ordinary teachers’ practice and debate, then led to a much closer integration of what we once called ‘content’ and ‘skills’. Tony McAleavy examined changing perceptions of the...
    Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge

  • Teaching History 138: Enriching History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Alf Wilkinson: Making cross-curricular links in history: some ways forward (Read article) 08 James Woodcock: Disciplining cross-curricularity? Cottenham Village College history department's inter-disciplinary projects: an evaluation (Read article) 13 Michael Monaghan: Having ‘Great Expectations' of Year 9 Inter-disciplinary work between English and history...
    Teaching History 138: Enriching History

  • Teaching History 98: Defining Progression

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This issue deals with defining and examining the question of what constitutes progress in history. Using audience centred writing to improve progression from Key Stage 2 to 3, Steering your Ofsted inspector into the long-term reasons for classroom success, Using Key Stage 3 to improve performances at GCSE, Learning to...
    Teaching History 98: Defining Progression

  • Why we must change history GCSE

      Teaching History article
    A head of steam for change in GCSE history has been building for some time now amongst history teachers, heads of history, advisers, teacher-trainers, researchers, consultants and all who regularly engage in debate about history teaching and learning. All those who read widely, share their practice, experience many Key Stage...
    Why we must change history GCSE

  • Teaching History 56

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: History Across the Primary Secondary Divide Pat Lackenby and Mel French 8 Evacuation - Fifty Years On Rob David and the Evacuation Project Team 14 A Fourth Year B.Ed Student asks some questions Kay Clarke 18 Women's History and Children's perception of gender Fiona Terry...
    Teaching History 56

  • Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This issue deals with critical approaches to citizenship, democracy and identity. Teaching Year 9 to be critical, Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War, Pupils' perception of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4, Does studying WW2 make any difference to pupils' sense...
    Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity

  • Teaching History 55

      Journal
    Editorial News Articles: Empathy and History - Ann Low-Beer Some Reflections on Empathy in History - John Cairns Reflections on the Empathy Debate - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley Pupils and the Professional Historian - Neil De Marco Some Comments on the Future of Integrated or Modular Humanities Courses in...
    Teaching History 55

  • Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Seán Lang examines the power of film to shape AS/A students’ perception and even understanding of the past. He argues that teachers of Years 12 and 13 underestimate at their peril the impact film can have on how students shape their perception of history. Although, as he...
    Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level

  • Teaching History 95: Learning to Think

      Journal
    Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking. Exceptional performances at GCSE: what makes a starred A? Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills, Motivating pupils through the poetic writing about the First World War, The history teachers guide to the internet and much more... Who wants to...
    Teaching History 95: Learning to Think

  • Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard

      Journal
    Raising the Standard of History education. WW2 cemetries and twenty years of curriculum change, Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE, Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection, Stretching the very able student in the mixed ability classroom, Year 11 and...
    Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard