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Teaching History 28
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, 3
Why History - the Teachers - Peter Carpenter, 6
History 16-19, 8
Profile: Peggy Bryant - Martin Booth, 9
How I taught history - Sinclair Atkins, 11
Practical Points on Teaching History to less-able secondary pupils,...
Teaching History 28
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Databases, spreadsheets, and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3
Teaching History article
Databases and spreadsheets used to terrify many history teachers and even where some skill was gained, these tools were approached in a spirit of professional worthiness rather than of intellectual excitement. Rob Alfano oozes intellectual excitement and it is pretty obvious that he communicates this to his pupils. His approaches...
Databases, spreadsheets, and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3
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Teaching History 27
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on contributors, 2
Oral History and the Raj - Andrew Reekes, 4
Programmed Learning and Guided Learning in History - Brian Garvey, 7
From a Victorian Scrapheap - David Jeremy, 10
Simulations and Computers - Richard Ennals, 13
Mr Polly's History, 16
Mission to England - Barbara...
Teaching History 27
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Reflecting on rights: teaching pupils about pre-1832 British politics using a realistic role-play
Teaching History article
Ian Luff’s discussion of role-play and his many practical examples (Ian Luff (2000) in Issue 100) drew a huge and positive response from readers. Luff emphasised the simple and the realistic, and, at the same time, showed how to get maximum value from these winning activities through a tight learning...
Reflecting on rights: teaching pupils about pre-1832 British politics using a realistic role-play
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Teaching History 25
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Editorial, 2
Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, 2
The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1979, 3
The Contributors, 3
Patrick Richardson (1927-1979), 5
CEE History - One approach - Ian Dawson, 6
The Teaching of History, 11-18, A Consistent Approach - Jon Nichol, 9
Contradictory Ideas - Hugh Nicklin, 15
The...
Teaching History 25
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Teaching History 35
Journal
Teaching History, February 1983 Number 35
In this issue:
Editorial, 2
History in Danger - Margaret Parker, 3
Watching the Detectives: A Critique of the Schools Council's Analogy between the Historian and the Detective - John Plowright, 6
Teaching History Competition, 9
Microcomputers and Local History Work in a Primary...
Teaching History 35
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Teaching History 31
Journal
Editorial, 2
List of Historical Association Area Education Advisers, 3
The 'Records Road Show' or Documents in Essex Classrooms - Ian Mason, 4
Schooling the Local Historian - Gareth Elwyn Jones, 7
Local History Teaching and the Ordinary Child - R. D. Woodall, 10
Lincolnshire Teachers' Views on a 16...
Teaching History 31
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Teaching History 21
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3
Classified Advertisements, 8
An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9
Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15
Teaching the Varieties of...
Teaching History 21
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Why Gerry now likes evidential work
Teaching History article
Phil Smith resurrects the lovable Gerry who was first introduced to Teaching History readers by Ben Walsh. Gerry now pops up in another history classroom, and, sadly, has had a few terrible teachers since Ben was looking after him. Phil brings Gerry back to the path of righteousness. Through an...
Why Gerry now likes evidential work
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Teaching History 43
Journal
Editorial 2
Teaching the Schools Council History Project in Hong Kong, 3
Andy Homden
Lancashire Texti :es and the Indian Connection, Mary Searle-Chatterjee 7
Olivares, Ian Bradbury 9
History Across the Spectrum, John Higham 12
Simulation and History - what actually happens in the classroom? 14
Ian Cardall
Talking History,...
Teaching History 43
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Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level
Teaching History article
Richard Harris challenges those who play down the essay in their teaching of the new AS Level. He argues that essay-writing embodies historical thinking and that it is therefore an essential tool for developing students’ understanding of history as an opinion-forming, judgement making process. Students need to practise developed, evidential...
Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level
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Teaching pupils how history works
Teaching History article
In the last edition of Teaching History Jayne Prior and Peter John presented an approach to extended writing that relied upon pupils’ earlier work.1 Pupil indignation was key. Furious at the blandness of some text presented to them, they used their own knowledge of colour, detail and drama to challenge...
Teaching pupils how history works
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Making history curious: Using Initial Stimulus Material (ISM) to promote enquiry, thinking and literacy
Teaching History article
The idea of gaining pupils’ attention, interest and curiosity at the start of the lesson with an intriguing image, story, analogy or puzzle has long been used by our best history teachers. Michael Riley, through writing and inset, popularised the term ‘hook’ and emphasised its special role at the start...
Making history curious: Using Initial Stimulus Material (ISM) to promote enquiry, thinking and literacy
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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
