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  • Teaching History 184: Different lenses

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Beyond myth and magic: Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire – Paula Worth (Read article) 22 They sometimes clashed, and ultimately blended: planning a more...
    Teaching History 184: Different lenses
  • How introducing cultural and intellectual history improves critical analysis in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    In his article in this journal just over a year ago, Steven Driver set out his vision for a less myopic range of topics in A-level coursework. In this edition, Driver demonstrates how he has built student enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, a topic which he had previously identified as...
    How introducing cultural and intellectual history improves critical analysis in the classroom
  • Teaching History 143: Constructing Claims

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Gary Howells - Why was Pitt not a mince pie? Enjoying argument without end: creating confident historical readers at A Level (Read article) 15 Jane Card - Seeing the point: using visual sources to understand the arguments for women's suffrage (Read article) 20...
    Teaching History 143: Constructing Claims
  • Teaching History 171: Knowledge

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition of HA's Teaching History journal is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated). For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials...
    Teaching History 171: Knowledge
  • Teaching History regular features

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Teaching History includes a number of regular features for secondary history teachers. On these pages you can access all recent and many older editions of each of these features: What's the Wisdom On provides a short guide to an aspect of history teaching. What have historians been arguing about... (formerly Polychronicon) aims to help...
    Teaching History regular features
  • Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching

      Journal article
    Many previous contributors to Teaching History have demonstrated the power of site visits to stimulate young people’s engagement and enrich their understanding of history. It is usually assumed, however, that the young people themselves will have the opportunity to visit the site in question – an assumption that cannot always...
    Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching
  • Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Helena Swannick tends to treat differences between historical interpretations simply as matters of opinion. Helena Swannick is a career changer who has decided to come into teaching after many years' working in human resources and some time at home caring for two young children. Her degree was a...
    Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion
  • Teaching Britain’s ‘civil rights’ history

      Teaching History article
    Hannah Elias and Martin Spafford begin this article by explaining why they believe it is essential for young people to learn about the ‘heterogeneous, rich and complex’ history of the struggle for civil rights in Britain. Drawing on their diverse experiences of researching, writing and teaching history at school and university...
    Teaching Britain’s ‘civil rights’ history
  • Teaching History 161: Support & Independence

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 ‘Come on guys, what are we really trying to say here?’ Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills - Lucy Moonen (Read article) 16 Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Using causation diagrams to empower sixth-form students in their...
    Teaching History 161: Support & Independence
  • Teaching History 189: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 189: Collaboration Teaching requires many kinds of knowledge, which has many different sources. One of those sources of knowledge is other professionals. But history teachers are not simply passive receivers of settled bodies of knowledge produced by others. As the pages of Teaching History attest, there is...
    Teaching History 189: Out now
  • Using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry

      Teaching History article
    The idea of using ‘little stories' to illuminate the ‘big pictures' of the past was creatively explored in Teaching History 107, which offered teachers a wealth of detailed vignettes with which to kindle young people's interest and illuminate major historical events. Paul Barrett builds on the ideas explored in that...
    Using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry
  • Firing enthusiasm for history through international conversation

      Teaching History article
    Richard Kerridge and Sacha Cinnamond explain how their history department built a culture of international dialogue and collaboration that enriches their students' historical learning. Videoconferencing is at the centre of these activities. Their story begins with an initial, moving encounter with the First World War battlefields that soon turned into...
    Firing enthusiasm for history through international conversation
  • New, Novice or Nervous? 170: Building students’ historical argument

      Article
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll soon find something better: conversations in which other history teachers have debated or tackled your problems –...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 170: Building students’ historical argument
  • Teaching History 148: Chattering Classes

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA update 08 Richard Kerridge and Sacha Cinnamond - Talking with the ‘enemy': firing enthusiasm for history through international conversation and collaboration (Read article) 16 Triumphs Show 1: Collaborating to commemorate Olaudah Equiano - Dan Lyndon and Donald Cumming (Read article) 18 Keeley Richards -...
    Teaching History 148: Chattering Classes
  • Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims

      Teaching History article
    Long, unreadable sentences in her students' essays led Rachel Foster to improve her post-16 students' punctuation. Her journey resulted, however, in more than improved punctuation. It led her to theorise what historians are really doing in their ‘signpost sentences'. She found herself showing students how an academic historian anticipates a chunk of argument in a single, well-turned, opening sentence. Foster created an intervention in which students...
    Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims
  • Teaching History 150: Enduring Principles

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 Letters 05 HA Secondary News 06 Mary Brown - From Muddleton Manor to Clarity Cathedral: improving Year 12's extended writing through an enhanced sense of the reader (Read article) 14 John Stanier ‘Much to learn you still have!' An attempt to make Year 9 Masters of Learning...
    Teaching History 150: Enduring Principles
  • Year 9 face up to historical difference

      Teaching History article
    How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference Teaching her Key Stage 3 students in Essex, Catherine McCrory was struck by the stark contrast between their enthusiasm for studying diverse histories of Africa and the Americas and their reluctance to...
    Year 9 face up to historical difference
  • Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance

      Teaching History article
    Offered five weeks to teach ‘whatever he wanted’ to Year 7, Andrew Slater decided that he wished to tackle the concept of significance head-on early in his students’ time in his school. He chose the expectedly unfamiliar substantive content of the Khmer Empire, challenging his students to justify the significance of...
    Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance
  • Teaching History 155: Teaching About WW1

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Rachel Foster - A world turned molten: helping Year 9 to explore the cultural legacies of the First World War (Read article) 20 Mary Brown and Carolyn Massey - Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build...
    Teaching History 155: Teaching About WW1
  • Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial: A Sense of Period (Read article for free) HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Exploring the ‘remembered’: using oral history to enhance a local history partnership – Emily Toettcher and Eliza West (Read article) 16 Triumphs Show: A public lecture series: a peek behind the scenes of...
    Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period
  • Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Who hates PEE paragraphs?’ A collective groan resounds around my classroom. ‘Today, Year 10 we are going to master PEE  paragraphs, and make our written historical explanations explode.’ I always remember one deflated Year 10 student who said, ‘Miss, I just don’t get PEE paragraphs. I couldn’t do them in Year 7, and I still...
    Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode
  • Why we would miss controlled assessments in history

      Teaching History article
    A place for individual enquiry? Why we would miss controlled assessments in history Most history teachers will, at some point, recognise the tension between teaching an engaging history course while at the same time meeting the requirements of an exam specification. Mark Fowle and Ben Egelnick reflect here on how...
    Why we would miss controlled assessments in history
  • Expertise in its development stage: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians

      Teaching History article
    The Director of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), Deborah Eyre, is one of the foremost advocates of gifted and talented children, and their education, in the UK. She plans to improve the education of the most able students by asking subject communities to work on how...
    Expertise in its development stage: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians
  • Pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation

      Teaching History article
    'Why am I accused of being a heretic?' A pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation One of the challenges facing students who want to make sense of a source or an interpretation of the past is the need to place it in its context. Various research studies have shown that students...
    Pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation
  • Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire

      Teaching History article
    Ollie Barnes encountered Hong Kong history on honeymoon and, powerfully, in the classroom in Nottinghamshire. Historical changes in the former colony’s present had resulted in increasing numbers of Hong Kongers arriving in school. This history demanded attention – important historical changes were in process and pupils needed to understand them....
    Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire