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  • Move Me On 108: Reconciling sources and stories

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Indira is having problems reconciling sources and stories in teaching history. 
    Move Me On 108: Reconciling sources and stories

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

      Teaching History feature
    It was the brainwave of the English department to bring in a script writer to work with Key Stage 3 students of the full ability range writing the lower school production. This was too good an opportunity for the history department to miss.
    Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

  • 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

  • Move Me On 102: Securing progression in historical understanding

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Tony is confused about Progression in historical understanding...
    Move Me On 102: Securing progression in historical understanding

  • Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Brian, PGCE history student, doesn't see the point of teaching history to pupils who find it very difficult.
    Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

  • 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

  • Cunning Plan 102: measuring and understanding progress

      Article
    Steven Barnes provides an innovative method for measuring and understanding progress.
    Cunning Plan 102: measuring and understanding progress

  • Triumphs Show 102: communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

      Teaching History feature
    With the summer break stretching forth its welcome hand and the final lesson with my lowband Year 7 class looming, I wanted to ensure that the enthusiasm and dedication that this class had shown throughout the year was kept alive over the holiday period. We had been studying the Norman...
    Triumphs Show 102: communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

  • Cunning Plan 102.1: teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid

      Article
    Cunning Plan for teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid to 13 and 14 year-olds. The rationale behind this teaching unit is manifold: first, it takes away the idea in the children’s minds that all that happened in the twentieth century is world war. Second, it is designed to appeal...
    Cunning Plan 102.1: teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid

  • Move Me On 106: Teaching AS level

      Teaching History feature
    This Issues Problem: Matilda Angevin, PGCE history student, is finding it hard to get to grips with teaching AS Level.
    Move Me On 106: Teaching AS level

  • Cunning Plan 106: Political literacy

      Teaching History feature
    The onset of citizenship brings with it the need to cover political literacy. The topic can be seen as dry and complex by Year 9 pupils. But ‘democracy is not boring’ (Lang in Teaching History 96). We need to educate our pupils to understand the complexity and features of a...
    Cunning Plan 106: Political literacy

  • Move Me on 101: Finding Literacy a burden

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Lizzie Lyons, PGCE student, is finding literacy a burden.
    Move Me on 101: Finding Literacy a burden

  • Triumphs Show 101: enthusing Year 8 about Oliver Cromwell

      Teaching History article
    Heather Scott explains how a two week written project on Oliver Cromwell motivated and enthused a Year 8 class.
    Triumphs Show 101: enthusing Year 8 about Oliver Cromwell

  • Getting ready for the Grand Prix: Learning how to build a substantial argument in year 7

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Dale Banham’s Grand Prix race has helped many history teachers in Suffolk to think freshly about metaphors and images that will inspire and enable pupils (especially underachieving boys) to write analytically and at length. In...
    Getting ready for the Grand Prix: Learning how to build a substantial argument in year 7

  • 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 104: Establishing lesson goals

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Bill norman, PGCE History student, is struggling with lesson goals.
    Move Me On 104: Establishing lesson goals

  • Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Josie, PGCE history student, is finding that her use of the department's exercises on sources is not improving pupils' understanding of evidence.
    Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

  • Triumphs Show 103: Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

      Teaching History feature
    Phil Smith demonstrates how active learning can motivate GCSE groups.
    Triumphs Show 103: Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

  • Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

      Teaching History article
    Essay writing is at the very heart of school history, yet despite the wide range of developments in this area over the past decade, pupils still struggle. Alex Scott and his department decided to investigate a variety of methods to see what methods worked in enabling pupils to construct essays...
    Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

  • Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

      Teaching History Article
    The question of what to include is a constant challenge to those given the responsibility of education, whether writing at the level of a national curriculum or the departmental scheme of work. Dan Lyndon and his department have been rethinking inclusion in history. In any school, representative history is essential...
    Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

  • Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

      Teaching History article
    One of the challenges facing pupils in the history classroom is conceptual understanding. Pupils also find it difficult to recognise themes or patterns across different parts of time and space. Ian Myson has recognised the importance of analogy as a way to facilitate pupils’ understanding. He is quick to recognise,...
    Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

  • Voices from Rwanda: when seeing is better than hearing

      Teaching History article
    Where were you when you last witnessed history being formed? How did you know that the events you had witnessed would turn out to be significant? The missile attack on a plane in Rwanda on 6 April 1994 passed Martyn Beer by at the time. It was later that he...
    Voices from Rwanda: when seeing is better than hearing

  • Year 7 pupils collaboratively design an historical game about a medieval peasant

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jacques Haenen and Hanneke Tuithof describe an activity that they developed for pupils as part of an initial teacher education course. Teams of Year 7 pupils were given a structure and guidelines within which they...
    Year 7 pupils collaboratively design an historical game about a medieval peasant

  • Are you ready for your close-up?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. We are often reminded that we remember little of what we hear and read but much of what we teach. The very act of teaching forces us to clarify our understanding and to process it...
    Are you ready for your close-up?