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  • Triumphs Show 117: Helping Year 9 to think and feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Dave Woodcraft is passionate about engaging students and making them care about the past. He is unrepentant about wanting his lessons to have an emotional impact and a relevant, immediate appeal. To this end, he frequently uses modern parallels in his classroom to make the point that issues in the...
    Triumphs Show 117: Helping Year 9 to think and feel their way through the origins of the Holocaust

  • Polychronicon 116: The Roman Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' examines the study...
    Polychronicon 116: The Roman Empire

  • Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    Helping pupils to understand sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland is not easy. For pupils to comprehend the origins and complexities of ‘the Troubles’ they need a big picture. That big picture could be viewed as the interaction of three concepts: time, place and identity. If pupils can at least glimpse...
    Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

  • Polychronicon 115: historians and the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' focuses on historians...
    Polychronicon 115: historians and the Holocaust

  • Polychronicon 113: slavery in 20th-century America

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' is on 'Interpreting...
    Polychronicon 113: slavery in 20th-century America

  • Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of the 'Triumphs Show' explains 'How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8'.
    Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

  • Polychronicon 112: The Angevin Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its ownage. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of the 'Polychronicon' concentrates on the...
    Polychronicon 112: The Angevin Empire

  • Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

      Article
    Using the experiences of William Bent and his family in the 1860s, this resource was designed to develop different kinds of historical thinking. For example, it highlights what a turning point the Sand Creek massacre proved to be.
    Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

  • Cunning Plan 111: Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' is a Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing. There is also a supplementary download commenting on the C.V. Wedgwood text used.
    Cunning Plan 111: Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing

  • Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    Sally Evans demonstrates how constructing a map of Europe can enhance pupils' understandings on the causations of World War Two.
    Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

  • Triumphs Show 110: Would you sacrifice watching television for Great Britain?

      Teaching History feature
    This lesson has worked well with higher ability whole classes and with smaller groups with Special Educational Needs. It is essentially a citizenship exercise. It encourages pupils to explore their own values, to justify these values through argument and, through discussion, to understand and accept that others might hold different...
    Triumphs Show 110: Would you sacrifice watching television for Great Britain?

  • Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

      Teaching History feature
    Why is it, I wonder, that Rednock students enjoy their history so much and why have so many opted for the subject at ‘AS’ Level? This new course, designed to bridge the gap between GCSE and ‘A’ Level, has allowed a new calibre of student to enrol. The ability range,...
    Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

  • Cunning Plan 108: teaching Tudor architecture

      Teaching History feature
    In this edition of 'Cunning Plan' Diana Laffin illustrates how Tudor Architecture can be taught.
    Cunning Plan 108: teaching Tudor architecture

  • Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

      Teaching History feature
    It was the brainwave of the English department to bring in a script writer to work with Key Stage 3 students of the full ability range writing the lower school production. This was too good an opportunity for the history department to miss.
    Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

  • Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

      Teaching History feature
    Heather Scott gives a detailed account of the opening of a new HA branch in West Yorkshire.
    Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

  • Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

      Teaching History feature
    Caroline Godsell describes the reactions and concerns of two Year 9 classes after the 9/11 attack.
    Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

  • Triumphs Show 103: Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

      Teaching History feature
    Phil Smith demonstrates how active learning can motivate GCSE groups.
    Triumphs Show 103: Using active learning to motivate GCSE groups

  • Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

      Teaching History article
    Essay writing is at the very heart of school history, yet despite the wide range of developments in this area over the past decade, pupils still struggle. Alex Scott and his department decided to investigate a variety of methods to see what methods worked in enabling pupils to construct essays...
    Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

  • Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

      Teaching History article
    However imaginative and enquiring classroom history may be, the history itself is usually constructed by a historian, a textbook author or a teacher. It is rare that pupils gain the opportunity to construct original histories of their own. Oral history can offer this opportunity. Yet as a methodology, oral history...
    Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

  • Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

      Teaching History Article
    The question of what to include is a constant challenge to those given the responsibility of education, whether writing at the level of a national curriculum or the departmental scheme of work. Dan Lyndon and his department have been rethinking inclusion in history. In any school, representative history is essential...
    Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

  • Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

      Teaching History article
    One of the challenges facing pupils in the history classroom is conceptual understanding. Pupils also find it difficult to recognise themes or patterns across different parts of time and space. Ian Myson has recognised the importance of analogy as a way to facilitate pupils’ understanding. He is quick to recognise,...
    Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

  • Less time, more thought: coping with the challenges of two-year Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Nathan Cole and Denise Thompson have really thought about Key Stage 3. They have been forced to; they now teach it in only two years. The switch to a two-year Key Stage 3 has made them re-evaluate their entire programme of study, and their rationale for teaching history. The result...
    Less time, more thought: coping with the challenges of two-year Key Stage 3

  • Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history

      Teaching History article
    What does it mean to be good at history? At certain times during their formal education students seem to be required to adjust their understanding of what studying history entails. Alan Booth writes from the viewpoint of a university tutor. He has collated ‘student voice’ on the experience of studying...
    Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history

  • It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

      Teaching History article
    Year 7 history teachers frequently bemoan the lack of historical learning in the primary sector. Pupils may be well versed in suffixes and similes, but their study of history can be limited. This group of history teachers decided that things could be different. Not only did they bring enquiry methods...
    It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

  • 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