Filter your results

Historian
Primary
Secondary
Student
Publications
Podcasts
Higher Education
Branches

Found 1,151 results matching 'scheme of work' within Publications > Teaching History   (Clear filter)

Not found what you’re looking for? Try using double quote marks to search for a specific whole word or phrase, try a different search filter on the left, or see our search tips.

  • 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

  • Polychronicon 135: Post-modern Holocaust Historiography

      Teaching History feature
    The field of Holocaust studies has been hit by an intellectual earthquake whose precise magnitude and long-term consequences cannot be ascertained at this stage. In 2007 Saul Friedländer published The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945. The book has been rightly celebrated as the first victim-centred synthetic history...
    Polychronicon 135: Post-modern Holocaust Historiography

  • 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

  • Using remote voting to involve everyone in classroom thinking at AS and A2

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Diana Laffin shares her findings on an action research project into the use of remote voting systems in the AS and A2 classroom. She was particularly interested in examining the impact of such devices on...
    Using remote voting to involve everyone in classroom thinking at AS and A2

  • Year 7 use musical language to think about King John

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As an enthusiastic musician, Alison Meikle is always looking for ways to use music in the history classroom. While Teaching History has seen plenty of articles on using musical sources as evidence (e.g. Mastin in Teaching...
    Year 7 use musical language to think about King John

  • Cunning Plan 103: why did Henry VIII marry so many times?

      Teaching History feature
    This enquiry sequence was inspired by an Historical Association lecture given last year by Susan Doran entitled, ‘Why did Elizabeth I not marry?’ Through its 14-19 conferences, sections of this journal and local branch activity, the Historical Association has started to secure stronger connection between up-to-date historical scholarship and classroom...
    Cunning Plan 103: why did Henry VIII marry so many times?

  • Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Let’s stop saying sorry for the Empire! Thus Mastin and Wallace introduce one of their lessons on interpretations of the British Empire. They develop Gary Howells’s ideas from the previous edition of Teaching History to demonstrate exactly what we might get our students to do with interpretations of the past....
    Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire

  • Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupils in England have an entitlement to study history or geography until the age of sixteen. However, increasingly, some pupils seem to be discouraged from taking up this opportunity as it can be seen as...
    Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

  • Teaching History 187: Widening the World Lens

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Beyond the balance sheet: navigating the ‘imperial history wars’ when planning and teaching about the British Empire – Alex Benger (Read article) 22 Weaving the threads: helping Year 9 to engage effectively with ‘other genocides’ –...
    Teaching History 187: Widening the World Lens

  • ‘You hear about it for real in school.’ Avoiding, containing and risk-taking in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Alison Kitson and Alan McCully discuss the findings of their research into history teaching in the most divided part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers, they consider what history teaching might contribute to an understanding of the current situation and...
    ‘You hear about it for real in school.’ Avoiding, containing and risk-taking in the classroom

  • 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

  • Teaching History 178: Constructing Accounts

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Beneath the surface: unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8 – Elizabeth Marsay (Read article) 16 What’s The Wisdom On... enquiry questions? (Read article) 20 Training for the marathon: history at Michaela – Michael...
    Teaching History 178: Constructing Accounts

  • Have we got the question right? Engaging future citizens in local history enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Gary Clemitshaw describes a five-lesson sequence integrating history, citizenship and ICT. He examines the varied rationales and problems underlying a citizenship-history link and then argues for the role of the local dimension in securing a connection that preserves the integrity of the discipline of history. He focuses upon causation as...
    Have we got the question right? Engaging future citizens in local history enquiry

  • How visual learning in 'A' level history can improve memory and conceptual understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Steve Garnett shares some the techniques that he uses to involve different kinds of learner in his post-16 lessons and explains how he arrived at these approaches after reflecting on problems in his own early...
    How visual learning in 'A' level history can improve memory and conceptual understanding

  • Teaching History 51

      Journal
    Editorial - Continuity, Coherence and Consistency 2 News 3 Articles: Celebrating the Solstice: A 'History through Drama' Teaching Project on the Iron Age - Jayne Woodhouse and Viv Wilson 10 The Big Push: Active Learning in the Humanities - Jason King, John Cox and Sue Dymoke 15 Problem Solving in...
    Teaching History 51

  • 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

  • Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

      Teaching History feature
    It nearly began like this: ‘On Christmas Eve 1968, two episcopalians and a Roman Catholic were in orbit around the Moon.' I was writing a book called Earthrise, about the first views of Earth from space. Most other books about the Apollo programme of the 1960s and 1970s took an...
    Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

  • Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter

      Teaching History article
    This is the fourth in a series of Teaching History articles about teaching history in N orthern Ireland co-authored by Alan McCully. The first two articles (in editions 106 and 114) outlined teaching strategies to help pupils in N orthern Ireland understand and relate to complex and often controversial issues...
    Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter

  • Teaching History 167: Complicating Narratives

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: Partition of British India 08 ‘I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’: multi-voicedness, ‘oral rehearsal’ and year 13 students’ written arguments – James Edward Carroll (Read article) 18 Why are...
    Teaching History 167: Complicating Narratives

  • What's your claim: Developing pupils' historical argument skills using asynchronous text based computer conferencing

      Teaching History article
    The potential that e-conferencing and message boarding have to engage pupils in historical debate and to enhance their ability and inclination to argue is increasingly well understood, as practice reported in these pages recently and the success and expansion of the Historical Association’s Centenary Debates initiative both demonstrate. In this...
    What's your claim: Developing pupils' historical argument skills using asynchronous text based computer conferencing

  • Teaching History 161: Support & Independence

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 ‘Come on guys, what are we really trying to say here?’ Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills - Lucy Moonen (Read article) 16 Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Using causation diagrams to empower sixth-form students in their...
    Teaching History 161: Support & Independence

  • Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock have collaborated before: Woodcock extended Chapman’s familiar casual metaphor of the final straw breaking a poor abused camel’s back. Here, they collaborate more explicitly to suggest a means of teaching students to produce adequately nuanced historical explanation. Their two central ideas are to produce a...
    Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE

  • Moral dilemmas: history teaching and the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    The new Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London has been very favourably received by the general public, and by teachers and their students. Initially controversial - was a war museum the ideal site for such an exhibition, for example? - it has since been widely praised for...
    Moral dilemmas: history teaching and the Holocaust

  • A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Ben Walsh describes some of the rationale behind the construction of the new Learning Curve exhibition on the British Empire and, in so doing, makes a strong case for placing empire generally and the British Empire in particular at the heart of historical study for all teenagers. A complex and...
    A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

  • Teaching History 156: Chronology

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Paula Worth - ‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home’: exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative (Read article) 20 Polychronicon: Transnational history of WWI - Jay Winter (Read article)...
    Teaching History 156: Chronology