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'I just wish we could go back in the past and find out what really happened': progression in understanding about historical accounts
Teaching History article
This is the second in a series of articles for Teaching History in which Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt share the findings of Project Chata (Concepts of History and Teaching Approaches). In their first article (see Edition 113), they questioned the wisdom of using the National Curriculum attainment target as...
'I just wish we could go back in the past and find out what really happened': progression in understanding about historical accounts
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Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Exploring Values Through History, Rethinking roleplay, Gladstone spritual of Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2, Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley, NQT's, Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing and much more...
‘I’ve been in the Reichstag’: rethinking roleplay - Ian Luff...
Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling
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Teaching History 133: Simulating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age – Ben Walsh (Read article)
10 How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable – Dan Moorhouse (Read article)
17 Nutshell
18 ‘If everyone’s got to vote then, obviously…...
Teaching History 133: Simulating History
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Let's see what's under the blue square...': getting pupils to track their own thinking
Teaching History article
Trainee teachers Suzie Bunyan and Anna Marshall explain why they decided to devise an activity in which they made a big fuss of a just one visual source. As beginning teachers they were also focusing on aspects of their own professional learning. They had decided to extend their skills in...
Let's see what's under the blue square...': getting pupils to track their own thinking
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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...
Teaching History 37
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Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This issue deals with defining and examining the question of what constitutes progress in history. Using audience centred writing to improve progression from Key Stage 2 to 3, Steering your Ofsted inspector into the long-term reasons for classroom success, Using Key Stage 3 to improve performances at GCSE, Learning to...
Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
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Teaching History 18
Journal
Editorial, page 2
The contributors, page 2
Geffrye Museum: People's Museum, page 3
Report: Staffordshire Courses, July 1976, page 5A Renaissance in history 'A' level, page 6
Exploring a Community's Past, page 11
Comment, page 14
Making the best use of textbooks, page 16
Detective exercises are not quite enough,...
Teaching History 18
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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
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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...
Teaching History 28
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Teaching History 27
Journal
Editorial, page 2
Notes on contributors, page 2
Oral History and the Raj - Andrew Reekes, page 4
Programmed Learning and Guided Learning in History - Brian Garvey, page 7
From a Victorian Scrapheap - David Jeremy, page 10
Simulations and Computers - Richard Ennals, page 13
Mr Polly's History,...
Teaching History 27
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Teaching History 109: Examining History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition asks the question: how do we create worthwhile examination courses that stimulate all pupils and strengthens the gold standard of rigour at the same time? Why we must change history at GCSE, Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge, Ensuring progression continues into GCSE,...
Teaching History 109: Examining History
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Teaching History 24
Journal
Editorial, page 2
The Contributors, page 3
`Public and Private Lives: Germany 1914 to 1939' - Diana Devlin, page 3
The Perils of Clio in France - Clive Church, page 7
Trends in History Teaching in France - L. 0. Ward, page 12
How to Evaluate a History Department -...
Teaching History 24
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Teaching History 23
Journal
Editorial, page 2
The Contributors, page 2
Teaching History: A Content Analysis of Numbers 1 to 20 - Keith Hodgkinson and J. B. Thomas, page 3
History in Sixth Form Colleges in Hampshire - Joan Blyth, page 7
`Booth at Hitchin': Assessing Thinking in History - Bernard Barker and Alan Southgate,...
Teaching History 23
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Teaching History 31
Journal
Editorial, page 2
List of Historical Association Area Education Advisers, page 3
The 'Records Road Show' or Documents in Essex Classrooms - Ian Mason, page 4
Schooling the Local Historian - Gareth Elwyn Jones, page 7
Local History Teaching and the Ordinary Child - R. D. Woodall, page 10
Lincolnshire...
Teaching History 31
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Teaching History 97: Visual History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to ‘layers of inference’ for Key Stage 3 - Claire Riley (Read article)
How long before we need the US Cavalry? The Pittsburgh Conference on ‘Teaching, Knowing and Learning’. - Peter Lee and Ros Ashby (Read article)
Practical...
Teaching History 97: Visual History
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Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Raising the Standard of History education. WW2 cemetries and twenty years of curriculum change, Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE, Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection, Stretching the very able student in the mixed ability classroom, Year 11 and...
Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard
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Teaching History 19
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Editorial, page 2
The Contributors, page 2
The Genesis of the History Teaching Film - B. J. Elliott, page 3
Film and the History Teacher - J. Duckworth, page 8
A Select List of Feature Films of use in the Teaching of History - T. Gwynn, page 11
New Approaches...
Teaching History 19
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Teaching History 26
Journal
Editorial, page 2
Contributors, page 3
Trainee Teachers of History and Infants as Learners - John Fines, page 3
Howler of the Year Competition, page 5
A Castle in a Classroom - Carole Taylor and Joan Allmark, page 6
Indian Village: a Simulation Exercise - Thomas F. Willer and Bruce...
Teaching History 26
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Teaching History 36
Journal
Teaching History, June 1983 Number 36
In this issue:
Editorial, page 2
Off the Record: the Ommission of Women from Classroom Historical Evidence - Carol Adams, page 3
Sex Differences and Historical Understanding - Martin Booth, page 7
Sexist Microcosm - R.J. Bradbury and C.A. Newbould, page 9
A Feast...
Teaching History 36
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From anecdote to argument: using the word processor to connect knowledge and opinion through revelatory writing
Teaching History article
Jayne Prior and Peter John argue that it is time to build upon what has been learned about historical writing using ICT and to acknowledge both opportunities and dangers in some current and popular practice. Critical of some of the weaker uses of ‘cut and paste’ activities, where pupils are...
From anecdote to argument: using the word processor to connect knowledge and opinion through revelatory writing
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Computers don't bite! Your first tentative steps in using ICT in the classroom.
Article
This article is for beginners. It will also provide perspectives and ideas for those training history teachers in the use of ICT for improving pupils’ learning. Drawing upon his experience in managing the HA’s NOF training programme, Alf Wilkinson outlines some practical activities that are ideal for getting the novice...
Computers don't bite! Your first tentative steps in using ICT in the classroom.
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A poodle with bite: Using ICT to make AS level more rigorous
Teaching History article
Diana Laffin describes two substantial ICT activities designed to strengthen both motivation and rigour in Year 12. In her first activity, she uses the power of ICT to develop a critical sense of audience. She shows how this can have a direct impact on improving performance in relation to examination...
A poodle with bite: Using ICT to make AS level more rigorous
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Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance
Article
In this article Kerry Apps introduces students to the significance of the witch-hunts in the modern era, at the time when they occurred, and in the middle of the eighteenth century. She presents her rationale for choosing the witch-hunts as a focus for the study of significance, and shows how her thinking about her teaching has evolved through her evaluation of her students’...
Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance
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Move Me On 117: Putting her ideas into practice
Teaching History feature
This Issue's Problem: Mary is having problems putting her IDEAS into PRACTICE
Move Me On 117: Putting her ideas into practice
