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  • Cunning Plan 93: Study Unit 3: 'The Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750'

      Article
    This unit contains complex concepts. It is distant from twentieth century life. The challenge is to understand power struggles between King and Parliament, a changing society and a religious upheaval. How do we interest students in religion when they live in a society in which religion takes a back seat?
    Cunning Plan 93: Study Unit 3: 'The Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750'

  • Cunning Plan 100: teaching the First World War in Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    History teacher and head of department stand outside noisy Year 9 class. Bombs (paper ones) fly everywhere; in corner of room mutiny is being discussed ... many pupils are refusing to follow their leader's last minute orders - they will not be opting for history! The war of attrition (excessive...
    Cunning Plan 100: teaching the First World War in Year 9

  • Move Me On 98: Marking & Assessment

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Bill Penn, PGCE student, is struggling with marking and assessment Problem Bill Penn is three weeks into his main school placement and making excellent progress. One problem, however, is beginning to emerge. He is being extraordinarily conscientious in his marking but is rapidly losing heart. He is increasingly...
    Move Me On 98: Marking & Assessment

  • The Pittsburgh Conference on 'Teaching, Knowing and Learning'

      Teaching History article
    Peter Lee and Ros Ashby report on a landmark conference on the future of history education in the USA held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 1998. They emphasise the substantial influence UK developments in history education continue to have in many parts of the world. They also warn that...
    The Pittsburgh Conference on 'Teaching, Knowing and Learning'

  • Move Me On 97: Having difficulty evaluating own lessons

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On 97 This Issue's problem: Maggi Paton, PGCE student, is having difficulty evaluating her lessons Problem: It is the first term of Maggie's PGCE course and she is a few weeks into her first school placement. Initially, her mentor and other staff were impressed by her: she had...
    Move Me On 97: Having difficulty evaluating own lessons

  • Cunning Plan 97: A-Level: International Relations 1890-1914

      Teaching History feature
    'No war is inevitable until it starts.' Good quote. Not mine, but A.J.P. Taylor's. The outbreak of the First World War is a good way to test it! Did the statesmen of the day know the First World War was coming? Put another way, why was there no general European...
    Cunning Plan 97: A-Level: International Relations 1890-1914

  • Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

      Teaching History feature
    Big theme: dissent and the formation of the concept of ‘rights' You can teach citizenship not only without compromising National Curriculum content, processes and concepts, but in such a way as to improve them. Review your department's ‘whole Key Stage' planning. Secure rigour and high levels of challenge by remembering...
    Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

  • Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time

      Teaching History feature
    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

  • Cunning Plan 94: Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750

      Article
    Flesh and blood people bring history to life. Capture the interest of our Year 8 pupils by making sure they engage with human dilemmas and dangers. A focus on individual people as the starting point for enquiries helps pupils to tackle the ‘big' stories (overviews) and difficult concepts.
    Cunning Plan 94: Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750

  • Cunning Plan 92: The Weimar Republic

      Article
    Teaching the Weimar Republic is rather like teaching the voyage of the Titanic. However much you stress the strengths of the Weimar vessel, they just can't wait to see it sink into the Nazi sea. I have found this problem to be so bad that many of them perceive the...
    Cunning Plan 92: The Weimar Republic

  • Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Phyllis Wheatley already seems to be the most effective teacher in the department. How can her mentor ensure that she goes on learning? Phyllis Wheatley is several weeks into her second placement and her mentor, Selina, is acutely aware of how impressive her teaching is already. A degree in...
    Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

  • Children's ideas about school history and why they matter

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Richard Harris and Terry Haydn recently carried out research funded by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority into pupils' views and beliefs about history. Whilst the overall results were very encouraging (and more so than earlier,...
    Children's ideas about school history and why they matter

  • Cunning Plan 132: Year 7 and the new National Curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    How can we plan for a coherent Year 7 that makes the most of the new National Curriculum freedom and its almost limitless possible content? Answer: borders, boundaries (and books) Please note: this article was published before the current 2014 National Curriculum.
    Cunning Plan 132: Year 7 and the new National Curriculum

  • Do smile before Christmas: the NQT Year

      Teaching History article
    Lucy Russell challenges the ancient wisdom passed down to new teachers. Addressing issues of relationships with pupils, the demands of historical learning and the new teacher's personality and integrity, she advises taking a thoroughly positive, and ambitious, view of the NQT year. NQTs should aim to move historical learning forwards....
    Do smile before Christmas: the NQT Year

  • Online CPD Unit: Creativity in the History Classroom

      E-CPD
    Oh no - not more extended writing! Firing pupil motivation through creative tasking. This E-CPD unit considers the issues departments needs to consider in planning for both challenging and engaging history. The example of teaching below comes from the Historical Association Key Stage 2-3 History transition project website (2005).  The...
    Online CPD Unit: Creativity in the History Classroom

  • Beyond Multiple Choice: Questions and Answers, Pedagogy and Technology in the History classroom

      E-CPD
    *This unit was produced a number of years ago and whilst still relevant from the pedagogy side of things many of the ICT aspects are outdated. Interactivity: A Grail-like QuestIn recent years the buzzword in many sectors, whether it be business, communications, entertainment or education, has been interactivity. One of...
    Beyond Multiple Choice: Questions and Answers, Pedagogy and Technology in the History classroom

  • Move Me On 128: Assessment without Levels

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Meg Dawson is keen to find ways of recognising and recording students’ progress and achievements without resorting to ‘levels’.
    Move Me On 128: Assessment without Levels

  • Move Me On 127: Using PowerPoint as anything more than glorified chalk and talk

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Nat Turner is feeling confused and aggrieved about what is expected of him in using ICT in his teaching.
    Move Me On 127: Using PowerPoint as anything more than glorified chalk and talk

  • Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons

      Teaching History feature
    What makes someone an Icon? A cunning plan to explore the relative significance of individuals involved in abolishing the slave trade.
    Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons

  • Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Louis is having problems teaching the history of medicine course at GCSE.
    Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

  • Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Brian, PGCE history student, doesn't see the point of teaching history to pupils who find it very difficult.
    Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

  • Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Josie, PGCE history student, is finding that her use of the department's exercises on sources is not improving pupils' understanding of evidence.
    Move Me On 103: Failing to improve pupils' understanding of evidence

  • Move Me On 122: Catering for different learning styles

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Maria Monte has decided that catering for different learning styles will solve all her problems of differentiation in history. 
    Move Me On 122: Catering for different learning styles

  • Move Me On 120: Teaching Citizenship

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Tom Payne is confused and concerned about the role he’s expected to play in contributing to the cross-curricular teaching of Citizenship.
    Move Me On 120: Teaching Citizenship

  • Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945

      Teaching History journal feature
    Anna Hamilton and Tony McConnell have created a 'Cunning Plan' to tackle to the question, 'Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after 1945?'.
    Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945