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  • A noisy classroom is a thinking classroom: speaking and listening in Year 7 history

      Teaching History article
    Rachael Rudham describes the thinking and discussion that led her department to plan systematically for the integration of speaking and listening tasks into Year 7 history lessons. Speaking and listening is a serious business; it is not a ‘light’ option, argues Rachael, and it should never be used as a...
    A noisy classroom is a thinking classroom: speaking and listening in Year 7 history

  • 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

  • Innovation, inspiration and diversification: new approaches to history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Good history teaching should not be the responsibility of a single department working in isolation. The history subject community as a whole should work together to ensure that history teaching is of as high a quality as possible. This does not mean that every department, and every teacher, should do...
    Innovation, inspiration and diversification: new approaches to history at Key Stage 3

  • Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts

      Teaching History article
    In the UK, thoughtful history teachers have long lamented the fact that the majority of pupils emerge from their compulsory history schooling at 14 with a limited or inadequate understanding of those key historical concepts that are necessary to make sense of the world in adult life. Whilst more able...
    Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts

  • My essays could go on forever: using Key Stage 3 to improve performance at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    History teachers are waking up to the fact that you cannot raise standards in GCSE by very much if you leave this work until Year 10. To leave it that late is to resort to surface, tactical moves rather than to address the deep reasons why so many pupils find...
    My essays could go on forever: using Key Stage 3 to improve performance at GCSE

  • 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?

  • Does differentiation have to mean different?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Richard Harris questions common assumptions about differentiation. In particular, he encourages teachers to avoid accepting too readily the view that pupils of different abilities must be given different resources or activities. Instead he builds a...
    Does differentiation have to mean different?

  • Time for chronology? Ideas for developing chronological understanding

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    The successful study of history requires many things, but few would contest that an understanding of time is one of them. Quite what we mean by ‘an understanding of time’ needs clarification, however. Chronological understanding is one feature. But it is not simply an ability to place events in order...
    Time for chronology? Ideas for developing chronological understanding

  • Seeing double: how one period visualises another

      Teaching History article
    When pupils study interpretations or representations of the past which are neither from their own period nor from the period being interpreted/represented, they are having to employ sophisticated knowledge and skill. Jane Card describes this as ‘double vision’: the pupils must think about the period depicted (in this case the...
    Seeing double: how one period visualises another

  • Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness

      Teaching History article
    How do we relate to the past? Does it tell us who we are? Is it a source of examples to follow and mistakes to avoid? Or can we go beyond that to something genuinely historical? Arthur Chapman and Jane Facey argue that as history teachers we have a responsibility...
    Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness

  • Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

      Teaching History article
    Pictures abound in history classrooms and teachers use them in many different ways. They add - often literally - some colour to the past, helping us to imagine what different worlds were like. Pictures can be used quite legitimately in this way to fire imagination and stimulate interest. But we...
    Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

  • Empathy without illusions

      Teaching History article
    Empathy may have disappeared from official documents but the history teacher who does not still regularly think about it, plan for it and teach it would be hard to find. What is history if not, in part, an attempt to understand how people thought and felt in the past? This...
    Empathy without illusions

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

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    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

  • Conceptual awareness through categorising: using ICT to get Year 13 reading

      Teaching History article
    When presenting their practical approaches to post-16 teaching in Teaching History 103, both Richard Harris and Rachael Rudham argued that students need to ‘do’ things with information, to process it, play with it, classify it, if they are ever to understand or remember it. They made a case for not...
    Conceptual awareness through categorising: using ICT to get Year 13 reading

  • 'What's that stuff you're listening to Sir?' Rock and pop music as a rich source for historical enquiry

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    Building on the wonderful articles by Mastin and Sweerts & Grice in TH 108, Simon Butler urges us here to make greater use of rock and pop music in history classrooms. His reasons are persuasive. First, it provides a rich vein of initial stimulus material to tap, helping us to...
    'What's that stuff you're listening to Sir?' Rock and pop music as a rich source for historical enquiry

  • Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13

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    Historical enquiry is blooming at Key Stage 3. Thanks to a rich array of source materials available on the web and in textbooks, superb history-specific training courses and genuinely innovative practice in schools, pupils can increasingly be found wrestling with demanding and often lengthy sources. They do this in order...
    Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13

  • Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly

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    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may now be outdated. Robert Guyver describes a model for teaching Boudicca’s rebellion to pupils aged 7 to 13. Drawing on the tradition of critical source evaluation, he nonetheless shuns aspects of that tradition in favour of...
    Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly

  • 'You be Britain and I'll be Germany...' Inter-school e-mailing in Year 9

      Teaching History article
    E-mailing is fast becoming our preferred means of communication and for good reason. It is immediate: we can fire off a few lines and receive a reply within seconds. It is also flexible: unlike a telephone conversation, we do not have to reply there and then; we can go away...
    'You be Britain and I'll be Germany...' Inter-school e-mailing in Year 9

  • Teachng History 40

      Journal
    Editorial 2 `On Monday I Took Back the Armour and the Video's, Ross Lee and Richard Davis 3 Committed Historiography and History Teaching in Nigerian Secondary Schools, Noel A. Ihebuzor 8 Report: Historical Consciousness and Identity, Charles Hannam 11 The European Dimension and German History, T.C. Lewis 12 Outstanding History...
    Teachng History 40

  • So, what exactly does an AST do?

      Teaching History article
    Professional development lies at the heart of any thriving, forward-thinking profession. In teaching, however, despite the government’s recent drive to ‘modernise’ the profession, it can still be a bit hit and miss. What are the opportunities for ambitious and successful teachers of history to widen their horizons and engage in...
    So, what exactly does an AST do?

  • Teaching History 37

      Journal
    In this issue: Editorial, page 2 School History Visits and Piagetian Theory - Mike Pound, page 3 Film and the Study of History - The Imperial War Museum as a Practical Example - Paul Sargent, page 7 Teaching History in the Soviet Secondary General Education School - A.G. Koloskov, page...
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  • Teaching History 39

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 A Small Local Investigation - David Wright, page 3 A Journey Back into the Past - Rebecca Bell, page 5 History Workshop Centre (Report), page 7 History of Education in Schools - Richard Aldrich, page 8 Christmas Holiday Lecture Quiz Prizewinner, page 11 Recreating a Trip to...
    Teaching History 39

  • Teaching History 17

      Journal
    About the journal, page 2 The Editors, page 2 Islam in history, page 3 Resources - Islam in history, page 5 African history in the classroom, page 7 History in Central Africa, page 10 Review article - recently published books on African history, page 13 The historian's method - a...
    Teaching History 17

  • Teaching History 28

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 Notes on Contributors, page 3 The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, page 3 Why History - the Teachers - Peter Carpenter, page 6 History 16-19, page 8 Profile: Peggy Bryant - Martin Booth, page 9 How I taught history - Sinclair Atkins, page 11 Practical Points...
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