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Teaching History 67
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 History for Ordinary Children - Terry Haydn
11 'Real Books' and Interpretations of History' in the National Curriculum - Hugh D. J. Nicklin
17 'Just for Laughs?' The History Day as an Experiment in Cross-phase Learning - Derek Peaple
22 The Valence House Project - John Ubsdell and Gillian Gillespie
24 Instuctional...
Teaching History 67
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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
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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
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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
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Teaching History 64
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 The Professional Craft Knowledge of the History Teacher - Peter John
12 Talking about History: Group Work in the Classroom - Practice and Implications - Kenneth Brzezicki
17 Issues in the Teaching of History - Towards a Skills/Concept-led Approach - Jane Jenkins
22 Bebba and her Sisters - Gully Robson
26 Time...
Teaching History 64
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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
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Teaching History 97: Visual History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to ‘layers of inference’ for Key Stage 3 - Claire Riley (Read article)
How long before we need the US Cavalry? The Pittsburgh Conference on ‘Teaching, Knowing and Learning’. - Peter Lee and Ros Ashby (Read article)
Practical...
Teaching History 97: Visual History
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Teaching History 62
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Always Historicise: Unintended Opportunities in National Curriculum History - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley
15 'From Little Acorns Grow...': A Liaison with Nursery, Infant and Junior Schools in the Framwellgate Moor Area of Durham City - D. R. Featonby
19 Standing the World on its Head: A Review of Eurocentrism...
Teaching History 62
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Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
The uses of sources in History, The evidence sandwich, Teaching Pupils to analyse cartoons, shared stories and a sense of place, Working with sources, interpretations of history and much more...
The use of sources in History - Tony McAleavy (Read article)
The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article)
Teaching...
Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation
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Teaching History 92: Explanation and Argument
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning how to build a substantiated argument in Year 7 - Dale Banham (Read article)
Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability - Gary Howells (Read article)
The ‘structured enquiry’ is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for...
Teaching History 92: Explanation and Argument
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Teaching History 63
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Using Evidence in the GCSE History Classroom - Heather Fry
18 Preparing to Teach about Causation - Ian Davies and Margaret Marshall
23 History Through Drama: A Curriculum Development Project - Graeme Easdown
28 The Appliance of Science: History and the Use of Artefacts in the Primary Curriculum - Peter Vass
33...
Teaching History 63
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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
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Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China
Teaching History feature
This edition of 'Cunning Plan' looks at teaching Imperial China at the beginning of Year 7.
Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China
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Teaching History 65
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Replies to Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley: Always Historicise? - Richard Aldrich
13 Clarity Please! - Gavin Alexander
15 Economic Awareness through History - P. J. Rogers
21 National Curriculum History and Teacher Autonomy: The Major Challenge - Robert Phillips
25 Teaching History: Art American Experience - Sean McGrath
28 Learning about Museum Resources - Sue...
Teaching History 65
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Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch
Teaching History feature
Heather Scott gives a detailed account of the opening of a new HA branch in West Yorkshire.
Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch
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Teaching History 55
The HA's journal for history teachers
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 Schools -...
Teaching History 55
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Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11
Teaching History feature
Caroline Godsell describes the reactions and concerns of two Year 9 classes after the 9/11 attack.
Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11
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Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons
Teaching History feature
What makes someone an Icon? A cunning plan to explore the relative significance of individuals involved in abolishing the slave trade.
Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons
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Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945
Teaching History journal feature
Anna Hamilton and Tony McConnell have created a 'Cunning Plan' to tackle to the question, 'Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after 1945?'.
Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945
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Cunning Plan 196: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?
Teaching History feature
In this Cunning Plan, Jonathon Dallimore and Martin Douglas explore how teaching about the history of the suffrage movement in Australia can be used to raise questions both about the campaign for votes for women in Australia and wider questions about what defines Australian history. They also open up the...
Cunning Plan 196: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?
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Cunning Plan 108: teaching Tudor architecture
Teaching History feature
In this edition of 'Cunning Plan' Diana Laffin illustrates how Tudor Architecture can be taught.
Cunning Plan 108: teaching Tudor architecture
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Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum
Teaching History feature
This Cunning Plan details an enquiry that I developed in order to achieve two curricular goals: to diversify our historical content and to help students to improve their disciplinary thinking and writing about similarity and difference. The enquiry addresses medieval Africa, specifically the East African kingdom of Aksum (approximately 300...
Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum
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Move Me On 127: Using PowerPoint as anything more than glorified chalk and talk
Teaching History feature
This Issue's Problem: Nat Turner is feeling confused and aggrieved about what is expected of him in using ICT in his teaching.
Move Me On 127: Using PowerPoint as anything more than glorified chalk and talk
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Learning from a pandemic
Teaching History article
In order to contextualise and make sense of the Covid-19 pandemic, Verity Morgan worked with her school’s long-standing partner school in Ghana to devise an innovative project combining history and science, past and present. In this article, Morgan sets out the rationale for the project, her detailed adaptation of a British Council...
Learning from a pandemic
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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
