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  • Polychronicon 114: interpretations of Oliver Cromwell

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' investigates the differing...
    Polychronicon 114: interpretations of Oliver Cromwell

  • Move Me On 128: Assessment without Levels

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Meg Dawson is keen to find ways of recognising and recording students’ progress and achievements without resorting to ‘levels’.
    Move Me On 128: Assessment without Levels

  • I understood before, but not like this: maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips

      Teaching History article
    We are used, in the current idiom, to ‘sharing objectives with pupils’. Too often, however, they are emphatically our objectives rather than theirs and sharing is shorthand for one-way communication. Helen Snelson’s article explores what sharing objectives can mean when objectives are genuinely jointly produced, rather than ‘cascaded’ and reports...
    I understood before, but not like this: maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips

  • Triumphs Show 128: Speed-dating with Queen Elizabeth

      Teaching History feature
     Some of the most effective role play activities are those which draw on the common experiences of pupils to promote serious learning outcomes. Chris Higgins experiments with a number of situations and strategies that draw upon popular games and television show formats. These are used to engage, to provide structure...
    Triumphs Show 128: Speed-dating with Queen Elizabeth

  • Is it time to forget Remembrance?

      Teaching History article
    Remembering those who have fallen in active service is an annual event in most schools and communities; the collective memory and respect that Remembrance engenders can enhance a sense of identity and belonging. Acts of Remembrance can be seen as an aspect of citizenship, but how often are they viewed...
    Is it time to forget Remembrance?

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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'

  • 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

  • Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter

      Teaching History article
    Lomas and Wrenn, co-authors and compilers of the Historical Association’s DfES-funded T.E.A.C.H 3-19 Report (Teaching Emotive and Controversial History), explore further ideas and examples of good practice from issues arising out of the report’s conclusions. Lomas and Wrenn propose five distinct categories of emotive and controversial history that further develop...
    Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter

  • Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Louis is having problems teaching the history of medicine course at GCSE.
    Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

  • Triumphs Show 121: 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

      Teaching History feature
    It’s early July 2004, and the history department of Harrogate Grammar School are chatting in the staff room enjoying a bit of spare time now that exam classes have disappeared. The subject of what the department will do next year when it comes to trips, speakers and special days comes...
    Triumphs Show 121: 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

  • 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

  • How do we get better at going on trips: Planning for progression outside the classroom

      Teaching History article
    School trips are, it seems, always in the news. They are under threat, or vital, or the preserve of wealthier students, or a forum for poor behaviour, or a day out of the classroom to build relationships, or a fantastic learning experience where students learn important life skills (such as...
    How do we get better at going on trips: Planning for progression outside the classroom

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    Helping pupils to understand sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland is not easy. For pupils to comprehend the origins and complexities of ‘the Troubles’ they need a big picture. That big picture could be viewed as the interaction of three concepts: time, place and identity. If pupils can at least glimpse...
    Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

  • Miss, now I can see why that was so important: using ICT to enrich overview at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Reflection and evaluation are key tools in the box of the successful history teacher. However, a focus on resources or exam results is futile unless a desire to develop pupils’ historical understanding is at the heart of the evaluation process. Maria Osowiecki’s department faced two problems: how to develop their...
    Miss, now I can see why that was so important: using ICT to enrich overview at GCSE

  • Making history meaningful: helping students see why history matters

      Teaching History article
    October 17 saw thousands of people writing a blog of a normal Tuesday as part of the ‘History Matters’ campaign. There was great media interest in the event and the papers were full of the blogs of the famous and not so famous; people were keen to write up their...
    Making history meaningful: helping students see why history matters

  • Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

      Article
    Using the experiences of William Bent and his family in the 1860s, this resource was designed to develop different kinds of historical thinking. For example, it highlights what a turning point the Sand Creek massacre proved to be.
    Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

  • Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    Sally Evans demonstrates how constructing a map of Europe can enhance pupils' understandings on the causations of World War Two.
    Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

  • Politics, history and stories about the Cold War

      Article
    Interpretation of the Cold War is a fascinating area. Many students begin to study it certain pre-formed ideas – gleaned from their parents, perhaps, or from films or computer games. Historians have interpreted it in different ways – and those who believe in the ‘twenty-year rule’ that historical judgment is...
    Politics, history and stories about the Cold War

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

      Teaching History feature
    Why is it, I wonder, that Rednock students enjoy their history so much and why have so many opted for the subject at ‘AS’ Level? This new course, designed to bridge the gap between GCSE and ‘A’ Level, has allowed a new calibre of student to enrol. The ability range,...
    Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

  • Triumphs Show 117: Helping Year 9 to think and feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Dave Woodcraft is passionate about engaging students and making them care about the past. He is unrepentant about wanting his lessons to have an emotional impact and a relevant, immediate appeal. To this end, he frequently uses modern parallels in his classroom to make the point that issues in the...
    Triumphs Show 117: Helping Year 9 to think and feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

  • 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