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  • Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: William Cuffay, PGCE student, is struggling to find a questioning style which will develop pupils' thinking. Problem: William Cuffay is half way through the second term of his PGCE course and is showing considerable promise. He is thorough in his lesson preparation, and has a clear sense...
    Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking

  • Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: Because of the demands of the modular structure on non-specialists, the school's Key Stage 3 schemes of work are extremely detailed, and include individual lesson plans that staff are encouraged to use or adapt depending on their level of confidence. Arnie began by relying on the plan...
    Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area

  • 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

  • Move Me On 118: Can't find connection between fun and serious learning

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Eddie can't find the connection between fun and serious learning.
    Move Me On 118: Can't find connection between fun and serious learning

  • Move Me On 116: Having problems with his mentor

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Henry Plant is having problems with his mentor. 
    Move Me On 116: Having problems with his mentor

  • Cunning Plan 116: how do earthquakes affect a place?

      Teaching History feature
    Cunning Plan for teaching geography: How do earthquakes affect a place?
    Cunning Plan 116: how do earthquakes affect a place?

  • Move Me On 115: the class already know all about WW1

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Vera is worried that her Year 9 class already know all about World War One. 
    Move Me On 115: the class already know all about WW1

  • Move Me On 113: Getting pupils to really care about what happened in the past

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Ronnie Wedgewood is struggling to get pupils really to care about what happened in the past. 
    Move Me On 113: Getting pupils to really care about what happened in the past

  • Move Me On 112: Has problems with his subject knowledge

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Tom MaCaulay is having problems with his subject knowledge.
    Move Me On 112: Has problems with his subject knowledge

  • 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

  • Move Me On 111: Having problems with Differentiation

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Frances is having problems with differentiation.
    Move Me On 111: Having problems with Differentiation

  • Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' looks at teaching Imperial China at the beginning of Year 7.
    Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

  • Cunning Plan 109: teaching the French Revolution to Year 12

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' focuses on teaching Year 12 the French Revolution.
    Cunning Plan 109: teaching the French Revolution to Year 12

  • 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

  • Move Me on 101: Finding Literacy a burden

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Lizzie Lyons, PGCE student, is finding literacy a burden.
    Move Me on 101: Finding Literacy a burden

  • 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

  • The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links. Some of the ICT references are now dated. How do we use new technology to enhance our History teaching? New technology...
    The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'

  • Muslim Rescuers of the Holocaust CPD

      CPD Unit
    This CPD unit focuses on the experience of Muslim rescuers during the Holocaust and the Second World War. It was written by Andrew Wrenn, Cambridgeshire Humanities Advisor, to complement  another unit published earlier on this website called Muslim Tommies which dealt with the experience of Muslim soldiers fighting for Britain...
    Muslim Rescuers of the Holocaust CPD

  • Film: Trainee and mentor review a lesson and discuss the trainee's progress

      Multipage Article
    This film series was produced to accompany materials in the Beginning Teacher units. It contains a Key Stage 3 history lesson debrief. The materials are not designed specifically to be examples of good practice; rather they are to promote discussion about good practice in teacher training. The films show a meeting between...
    Film: Trainee and mentor review a lesson and discuss the trainee's progress

  • Progression - more than 'could do better'?

      E-CPD
    Some notion of progression underpins all teaching as well as curriculum, course design, work scheme construction lesson planning, evaluation and assessment.  But what do we mean by progression and how do we help our students achieve it? Does our assessment reflect progression? Do our reports to parents comment on progression? In this E-CPD...
    Progression - more than 'could do better'?

  • Cunning Plan 101: how emailing enhanced students' debating skills

      Teaching History feature
    Richard Harris and Diana Laffin describe how e-mailing enhanced their students' debating skills.
    Cunning Plan 101: how emailing enhanced students' debating skills

  • We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

      We Also Served
    In search of the story of British Asian Veterans of World War Two.‘We also served' is a moving short film, which follows pupils from Beardwood and St Bede's high schools as they research why the contribution of these soldiers is not more widely recognised.
    We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

  • Research Methods in Heritage, Museums & Galleries

      Reading List
    Reading List for those interested in research methods in heritage, museums and galleries from Newcastle University... Essential Reading Dicks, Bella, From Mine to Museum: The Evolution of Heritage in the Rhondda in Heritage, place, and community by Dicks, Bella University of Wales Press, 2000  Dicks, Bella, Heritage and Local Memory in...
    Research Methods in Heritage, Museums & Galleries

  • Thinking of teaching?

      Multipage Article
    Routes into teaching Although there are now hundreds of training providers and different courses from which to choose, an awareness of some basic distinctions can help enormously in deciding what type of programme you want to follow, and clarifying your options. One essential distinction is between fee-paying programmes, on which...
    Thinking of teaching?