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  • Securing contextual knowledge in year 10

      Teaching History article
    Using regular, low-stakes tests to secure pupils' contextual knowledge in Year 10 Lee Donaghy was concerned that his GCSE students' weak contextual knowledge was letting them down. Inspired by a mixture of cognitive science and the arguments of other teachers expressed in various blogs, he decided to tackle the problem...
    Securing contextual knowledge in year 10

  • Polychronicon 126: Stonehenge

      Teaching History feature
    Secondary history ought to pay more attention to stones: 1. they are accessible, logistically and educationally, and highly instructive. The Neolithic is everywhere, and generally speaking, free2. venture outside the classroom, into real space or cyberspace, and you stumble into it eventually.3. Archaeological interpretation is an accessible way into aspects...
    Polychronicon 126: Stonehenge

  • Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Fred North treats ‘Assessment for Learning' as though it is a bolt-on extra unconnected to his learning objectives Fred is an enthusiastic trainee who has generally made a good impression on students and colleagues over the course of his first term. He has been determined to establish a...
    Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

  • Move Me On 125: Lack of conceptual clarity

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Steve Cloye is over half way through his first main teaching placement and has been struggling with the PGCE. His degree was in American Studies, and although this included American history he lacks confidence in his subject knowledge, and particularly in his understanding of the nature of the...
    Move Me On 125: Lack of conceptual clarity

  • Triumphs Show 127: using the Anne Frank House's 'A Family Secret'

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    The Anne Frank House recently translated its comic book A Family Secret into English. By stressing the choices and dilemmas of ordinary people living in Amsterdam during the German Occupation, the comic seeks to revise the black and white ideas students hold of right and wrong. With five other history...
    Triumphs Show 127: using the Anne Frank House's 'A Family Secret'

  • Move Me On 134: Getting enough A-level experience

      Teaching History feature
    Problem for the history mentor: Tom Clarkson is worried that he will not have enough A level teaching experience to teach Year 12 effectively next year. Tom Clarkson is well into his second teaching placement and fears that the outline plans on his timetable for working with Year 12 will...
    Move Me On 134: Getting enough A-level experience

  • Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Getting students to generate their own questions can seem like a formidable challenge, even for experienced teachers with extensive subject knowledge developed over years of teaching. Imagine how much more alarming it appeared to a student-teacher being encouraged to take risks by handing more responsibility to the students. Could it...
    Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry

  • Move Me On 145: Uncomfortable with Storytelling

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Claudia Jones is very uncomfortable with any kind of sustained story-telling. Claudia Jones is a quietly spoken and rather nervous trainee. She struggled from the beginning of the PGCE to establish a strong  presence in the classroom, and although she has become more assertive about insisting on basic...
    Move Me On 145: Uncomfortable with Storytelling

  • Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Rob Collingwood keeps just making assumptions about his students' thinking. Rob Collingwood seemed to make a very promising start to his first school placement, but as time goes on his mentor is becoming concerned about the lack of connection between Rob's thinking and that of his students. Rob...
    Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking

  • Polychronicon 154: Elizabeth I

      Teaching History feature
    Elizabeth I is admired today for her power dressing and her power portraits; her political acumen and her success in a man's world. The adulation of Elizabeth started during her own lifetime when she was praised as a goddess and even as a celestial power. Elizabeth's semi-mythical status is reflected...
    Polychronicon 154: Elizabeth I

  • Making sense of the eighteenth century

      Teaching History article
    Making sense of the eighteenth century Pressures on curriculum time force us all to make difficult choices about curriculum content, but the eighteenth century seems to have suffered particular neglect. Inspired by the tercentenary of the accession of the first Georgian king and the interest in the Acts of Union prompted...
    Making sense of the eighteenth century

  • Beyond bias: making source evaluation meaningful to year 7

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Heidi Le Cocq demonstrates how to introduce Year 7 pupils to sophisticated techniques for evaluating sources. Taking up Seán Lang's criticism of the inappropriate use of the term ‘bias', she shows how even very young pupils can be encouraged to move beyond this wearisome response to questions...
    Beyond bias: making source evaluation meaningful to year 7

  • Mentioning the War: does studying World War Two make any difference to pupils' sense of British achievement and identity?

      Teaching History article
    All of this edition is based on the assumption that the teaching of history can have a significant impact upon the values, views and attitudes of our pupils. But how much impact does it have and of what type? And do we ever examine that impact in order to rethink...
    Mentioning the War: does studying World War Two make any difference to pupils' sense of British achievement and identity?

  • Polychronicon 143: the Balfour Declaration

      Teaching History feature
    In a letter from the British Foreign Secretary, A.J. Balfour, to Lord Rothschild, the Anglo-Jewish leader, on 2 November 1917, the British Government declared its intention to ‘facilitate' the ‘establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people'. The Balfour Declaration, as it became known, was endorsed by...
    Polychronicon 143: the Balfour Declaration

  • Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Phyllis Wheatley already seems to be the most effective teacher in the department. How can her mentor ensure that she goes on learning? Phyllis Wheatley is several weeks into her second placement and her mentor, Selina, is acutely aware of how impressive her teaching is already. A degree in...
    Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

  • An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

      Teaching History article
    It is common practice to invite survivors of the Holocaust to speak about their experiences to pupils in schools and colleges. Systematic reflection on the value of working with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides and on how to make the most of doing so is rarer, however. In...
    An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

  • Polychronicon 153: Re-interpreting Liberation: the end of the Holocaust?

      Teaching History feature
    In August 1945, Zalman Grinberg, a doctor from Kovno and spokesman for the Liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany, addressed 1,700 Jewish survivors. ‘What is the logic of destiny to let these individuals remain alive?!' he asked them: We are free now, but we do not know what...
    Polychronicon 153: Re-interpreting Liberation: the end of the Holocaust?

  • Learning lessons from genocides

      Teaching History article
    ‘Never again'? Helping Year 9 think about what happened after the Holocaust and learning lessons from genocides ‘Never again' is the clarion call of much Holocaust and genocide education. There is a danger, however, that it can become an empty, if pious, wish. How can we help pupils reflect seriously on...
    Learning lessons from genocides

  • Helping Year 9 evaluate explanations for the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    ‘It made my brain hurt, but in a good way': helping Year 9 learn to make and to evaluate explanations for the Holocaust Why genocides occur is a perplexing and complex question. Leanne Judson reports a strategy designed to help students think about perpetration and evaluate and propose explanations for...
    Helping Year 9 evaluate explanations for the Holocaust

  • Helping Year 9 debate the purposes of genocide education

      Teaching History article
    Connecting the dots: helping Year 9 to debate the purposes of Holocaust and genocide education Why do we teach about the Holocaust and about other genocides? The Holocaust has been a compulsory part of the English National Curriculum since 1991; however, curriculum documents say little about why pupils should learn...
    Helping Year 9 debate the purposes of genocide education

  • Move Me On 152: How to teach meaningful overviews

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Martin King is worried about how to teach meaningful overviews...
    Move Me On 152: How to teach meaningful overviews

  • Polychronicon 152: Changing interpretations of the workhouse?

      Teaching History feature
    The workhouse has long held a negative reputation in the popular imagination as the dreaded destination of the destitute, an institution guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of the Victorian poor. This is partly owing to its design under the New Poor Law of 1834 as an explicit punishment...
    Polychronicon 152: Changing interpretations of the workhouse?

  • Triumphs Show 169: Using 360 VR Technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    One of the biggest changes in the new GCSE specifications is the requirement for all students to undertake a study of the historic environment. Unsurprisingly the approach taken by the exam boards to this requirement varies widely. While some boards allow schools a free choice of site, others have decided...
    Triumphs Show 169: Using 360 VR Technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study

  • International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

      Teaching History article
    There is no reason why pupils of so-called ‘average’ and ‘below-average ability’ cannot both understand and enjoy studying complicated international events. Indeed, in the interests of inclusion and raised standards, it is vital that they do. Our Letters Pages in the last two editions captured something of the history teaching...
    International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

  • Move Me On 140: Getting students to generate their own enquiry questions

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Rafe Sadler has just started his second teaching placement and is worried about the very different ways of working and expectations of teachers in his new department. In his first school, where history was taught within a humanities programme, the Key Stage 3 scheme of work had...
    Move Me On 140: Getting students to generate their own enquiry questions