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  • Historical scholarship and feedback

      Teaching History article
    In her introduction to this piece, Carolyn Massey describes history teachers as professionals who pride themselves on ‘a sophisticated understanding of change and continuity’. How often, though, do we bemoan change when it comes, as it so often has recently? Massey’s article provides an example of how to embrace change,...
    Historical scholarship and feedback

  • Move Me On 164: Similarity & Difference

      Teaching History feature
    This issue’s problem: Sam Holberry is getting very confused about the concept of similarity and difference Sam Holberry has returned to his main training school after a short placement in another school. Although he found it challenging to work with students he didn’t know, he enjoyed seeing a wider range...
    Move Me On 164: Similarity & Difference

  • Teaching History 80

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 Re-Thinking Collingwood: a reply to Keith Jenkins's Re-thinking History Mamie T.E. Hughes 9 Secondary History Teaching and the OFSTED Inspections: an analysis and discussion of history comments Paul Bowen 14 The Re-appearance of a Cheshire Cat - teaching the history of Britain at key stage...
    Teaching History 80

  • Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing

      Article
    Heidi Le Cocq sets out the classic problem of the history teacher: how does she cover the content and ensure that pupils reflect and analyse at the same time? She relates this to a another problem: how do you prepare pupils well for coursework (ensuring, for example, that they adopt...
    Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing

  • Teaching History 79

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 The Revised History Order Sue Bennett and Ian Steele 9 From Plowden to Dearing Patrick Wood 11 Developing an Understanding of Time Sydney Wood 15 The Development Of Temporal Concepts in Children and its Significance for History Teaching in the Senior Primary School Cheryl-Ann Simchowitz...
    Teaching History 79

  • Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing

      Teaching History article
    There are two main reasons why it is important for history teachers to make sense of the art teacher's processes, aims and perspectives: first, if we are concerned to improve pupils' historical knowledge and understanding then we will want to know about how learning in other subjects impacts upon it...
    Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing

  • Teaching History 178: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 178 Constructing Accounts Teachers of history have long recognised the tensions inherent in our role. We must deal with the existence of notions of a core narrative (or narratives) of areas of the past, communicating what those notions are while enabling our students to engage critically with...
    Teaching History 178: Out now

  • Move Me On 96: Struggling with language register - getting pitch right

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: John Ball is having difficulty getting his language register right Problem: John is several weeks into his first school placement. He is very much enjoying the PGCE course. It is proving to be the intellectual and practical challenge that he hoped. He has come to the course...
    Move Me On 96: Struggling with language register - getting pitch right

  • The Hopi is different from the Pawnee: using a datafile to explore pattern and diversity

      Article
    Dave Martin identifies the factors which led to new knowledge and understanding in a mixed ability Year 7 class. Not only did these pupils acquire greater knowledge of the native peoples of North America, they also learned transferable techniques for identifying and analysing pattern and diversity. Clear learning objectives led...
    The Hopi is different from the Pawnee: using a datafile to explore pattern and diversity

  • Teaching History 77

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 6 History, Autonomy and Education or History Helps Your Students Be Autonomous Five Ways (with apologies to PAL dog food) Peter Lee 11 Theory and Practice Essay: The Use of Resources and Teaching Aids in the Teaching of History, with particular reference to Year EightElizabeth Danks...
    Teaching History 77

  • Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time

      Article
    GCSE development studies require students to assess change over vast periods of time. How can we cover the content whilst ensuring that our students do not lose sight of the big picture? Look to your choice of big enquiries for the solution. Here is one efficient and motivating approach devised...
    Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time

  • Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

      Article
    Many history teachers will remember the feature on Jamie Byrom's teaching in Times Educational Supplement of July 1996 where he attacked the recent fashion of history textbooks for encouraging only short (and usually formulaic) responses about reliability of sources. He demonstrated the systematic teaching that pupils need if they are...
    Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

  • Teaching History 175: Out now

      24th June 2019
    The effort to discern hidden voices is intrinsic to the integrity of historical practice. The professional historian poring over primary sources strives to establish who can be heard in any text or artefact, which voices are being inadvertently favoured or what light further voices might shed on the question in...
    Teaching History 175: Out now

  • Teaching History 75

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 The Dearing Final Report - Threat or Opportunity? Carol White 7 Responses to the Dearing Report: History Post-16 Laurie Taylor 9 Making Dearing Enduring - A Personal View Roy Hughes 11 Teaching History at Key Stage 2 - One School's Approach Russell Carter 13 implementing...
    Teaching History 75

  • 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

  • Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem:Joe Priestley is having problems providing sufficient challenge for the higher attainers within his mixed ability groups Joe Priestley has settled into his training placement very well and has impressed other members of the history department with his lively and engaging ideas. In his early teaching he was...
    Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

  • Teaching History 72

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 2: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Pam Harper 11 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 3: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Tony McAleavy 14 A Way of Looking at History: Local-National-World Links - Sylvia L. Collicott 18...
    Teaching History 72

  • 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

  • Teaching History 70

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Change and Continuity: Some Reflections on the First Year's Implementation of Key Stage 3 History in the National Curriculum Robert Phillips 9 Implementing the National Curriculum, Term 1 Ruth Watts 13 History Tasks at Key Stage 3: A Survey from Five Schools Peter D. John...
    Teaching History 70

  • Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

      Teaching History feature
    ‘The Beatles were history-makers from the start,' proclaimed the liner notes for the band's first LP in March 1963. It was a bold claim to make on behalf of a beat combo with one charttopping single, but the Beatles' subsequent impact on 1960s culture put their historical importance (if not...
    Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

  • Move Me On 146: Knowing enough to be able to start planning

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Jim Boswell is constantly anxious about whether he knows enough to be able to start planning. Jim Boswell is an articulate, enthusiastic student teacher, with previous voluntary work experience teaching English to young asylum-seekers and refugees. Other previous roles in sports coaching and refereeing have clearly paid dividends...
    Move Me On 146: Knowing enough to be able to start planning

  • An introduction to Teaching History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Teaching History is the UK’s leading professional journal for history teachers at secondary level. Published quarterly with a distribution of over 3,000, Teaching History also boasts a growing international readership. These include teachers, heads of department, trainees, and libraries. Teaching History is free to HA Secondary Members – find out about Secondary membership  Access a...
    An introduction to Teaching History

  • Teaching History 61

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Who is the National Curriculum in History for? Sylvia Collicott 8 A Race between Education and Catastrophe: The Final Report of the History Working Group Sue Styles 13 Why does it Matter? A Personal Response to the Final Report Ian Dawson 17 From the Ivory...
    Teaching History 61

  • Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Jamie Byrom’s article ‘Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning’ (TH 99) offered a practical solution both to weak knowledge acquisition in Year 7 and to effective, worthwhile assessment. This enquiry follows the same model. The assumption is that pupils would be carrying out this enquiry at...
    Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

  • More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current national curriculum With the first teaching of a revised history curriculum due in September 2008 the debate over content and order is well under way. Robert Guyver, involved in the design of the curriculum development experiment that evolved into the 1991 version of...
    More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3