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  • 'How do ideas travel?' East meets west - and history meets science

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jamie Byrom is well-known to readers of Teaching History, not least for introducing us to the concept ‘professional wrestling' in the history department (Teaching History,133, Empire Edition). That article, authored with Michael Riley, focused on...
    'How do ideas travel?' East meets west - and history meets science

  • Teaching History 138: Enriching History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Alf Wilkinson: Making cross-curricular links in history: some ways forward (Read article) 08 James Woodcock: Disciplining cross-curricularity? Cottenham Village College history department's inter-disciplinary projects: an evaluation (Read article) 13 Michael Monaghan: Having ‘Great Expectations' of Year 9 Inter-disciplinary work between English and history...
    Teaching History 138: Enriching History

  • Disciplining cross-curricularity?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Why should we think in inter-disciplinary rather than cross-curricular terms when planning collaborative work with colleagues in other subjects? What scope is there for working in inter-disciplinary ways and what is the value of such...
    Disciplining cross-curricularity?

  • Making cross-curricular links in history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Alf Wilkinson has been working as ‘National Subject Lead' for History, co-ordinating a programme of support for schools, funded by the DCSF and delivered in partnership with the Historical Association and the CfBT. Here he...
    Making cross-curricular links in history

  • The Wellcome Collection Study Visits

      Visits
    Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience. It is the extraordinary legacy of an extraordinary man: Henry Wellcome. Drawn from his collection of over one million objects from across the world and through many centuries, this unique space is designed to promote new and creative...
    The Wellcome Collection Study Visits

  • Maths and History - Cross Curricular Case Study

      Case Study
    Maths and Museums: Norwich Castle Museum Working with Key Stage 3 MathsFaye Kalloniatis (Museum Education Manager, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service)The project, ‘Storming the Castle, challenged the idea that museums are not places where schools can extend their students' maths skills. On the contrary, the project demonstrated that museums can...
    Maths and History - Cross Curricular Case Study

  • 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

  • Interdisciplinary forays within the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. How might history and art mutually enrich each other and enhance pupil experience? The short answer, and there is much more to be said as Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Veronica Boix Mansilla show, is by...
    Interdisciplinary forays within the history classroom

  • Two Realms and an empire: history, geography and an investigation into landscape

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea that subjects should abandon their ‘silos' and work together is bandied about currently a great deal - ‘subjects' and ‘silos' alliterate after all and so, of course, does the word ‘slogan'. What might...
    Two Realms and an empire: history, geography and an investigation into landscape

  • Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea of engaging pupils with the relevance of local memorials is becoming commonplace in the history classroom. In Teaching History 109, Examining History  Edition, Dale Banham's pupils used First World War memorials to assess...
    Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance

  • Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War

      Teaching History article
    Many history teachers will have taken their GCSE pupils to School History Scene's Hitler on Trial for a rigorous and inspirational session, using drama, in preparation for the GCSE examination. Josh Brooman has now broadened the work of School History Scene by writing a new play, Doomed Youth, aimed at...
    Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War

  • Pride and delight: motivating pupils through poetic writing about the First World War

      Teaching History article
    This project emerged from team-teaching with history teachers in history lessons. Gill Minikin draws upon her expertise as an English teacher to help pupils become excited by the challenge of ‘squeezing language' into poems. History teachers often ask pupils to write poems but they do not necessarily draw upon all...
    Pride and delight: motivating pupils through poetic writing about the First World War

  • No puzzle, no learning: how to make your site visits rigorous, fascinating and indispensable

      Teaching History article
    Chris Culpin builds on recent articles by Andrew Wrenn and Mike Murray with numerous practical ideas for good quality site visits at Key Stage 3 and GCSE. But this article offers much more than practical tips. Chris Culpin sets out a rationale for the centrality of site visits in the...
    No puzzle, no learning: how to make your site visits rigorous, fascinating and indispensable

  • How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Mary Woolley decided to make four revision sheets for her lower-band Year 11 set. Each was to help them view their American West study through a different lens. She was rather uncertain, however (and so were the pupils) about her fourth sheet on places. Her reflections on the revision sheet...
    How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

  • Film history in the Classroom

      Article
    A PowerPoint presentation by Ben Walsh indicating ways in which we can use Film in the history classroom. We often look at images or watch film clips but do we always see all that there is to see...Click the link below to open the presentation>>>
    Film history in the Classroom

  • Manifesto for learning outside the classroom

      Article
    the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto – launched a few months ago - is intended to be a ‘movement’, the purpose of which is to canvas support for education beyond the school walls. It grew out of the education and skills select Committee’s report of 2005 which acknowledged the challenges...
    Manifesto for learning outside the classroom

  • A search beyond the classroom: using a museum to support the renewal of a scheme of work

      Teaching History Article
    How many times have you been to a museum or a historical building or a significant place and thought that you want to capture some of its essence to bring back to your pupils? The challenges of geography, risk, expense and staffing can all act as limitations in the planning...
    A search beyond the classroom: using a museum to support the renewal of a scheme of work

  • How do we get better at going on trips: Planning for progression outside the classroom

      Teaching History article
    School trips are, it seems, always in the news. They are under threat, or vital, or the preserve of wealthier students, or a forum for poor behaviour, or a day out of the classroom to build relationships, or a fantastic learning experience where students learn important life skills (such as...
    How do we get better at going on trips: Planning for progression outside the classroom

  • I understood before, but not like this: maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips

      Teaching History article
    We are used, in the current idiom, to ‘sharing objectives with pupils’. Too often, however, they are emphatically our objectives rather than theirs and sharing is shorthand for one-way communication. Helen Snelson’s article explores what sharing objectives can mean when objectives are genuinely jointly produced, rather than ‘cascaded’ and reports...
    I understood before, but not like this: maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips

  • Geography in the Holocaust: citizenship denied

      Teaching History article
    In this article David Lambert argues powerfully for teachers of the humanities to place citizenship at the centre of their work. He seeks to demonstrate that the division between subject-boundaries needs to be broken through if students are not to be denied what they are entitled to: an understanding of...
    Geography in the Holocaust: citizenship denied

  • Sense, relationship and power: uncommon views of place

      Teaching History article
    Liz Taylor invites history teachers to consider how diverse and uncommon the ‘common’ person’s experience of place might be. She draws upon cultural geography to show how words like ‘place’, ‘space’ and ‘landscape’ can be unpacked and questioned and so become better tools for pupils’ critical thinking in both geography...
    Sense, relationship and power: uncommon views of place

  • Teaching the Holocaust: the experience of Vad Vashem

      Teaching History article
    No institution is better known for its continuing work on the Holocaust than Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem. In this article Richelle Budd Caplan offers guidelines for teachers, based on its unrivalled experience. She demands that our teaching of this subject should aim to restore the identities of the victims. To do...
    Teaching the Holocaust: the experience of Vad Vashem

  • English, history and song in Year 9: mixing enquiries for a cross-curricular approach to teaching the most able

      Teaching History article
    Several articles in previous editions of Teaching History have touched on the themes of crosscurricularity, Assessment for Learning and the most able. Tony McConnell and Mandy Monaghan bring these themes together in describing how the English and history departments in their school have taken advantage of a natural area of...
    English, history and song in Year 9: mixing enquiries for a cross-curricular approach to teaching the most able

  • School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

      Teaching History article
    The study of history has to be vibrant. It is about real people, real dramas, real narrative, real human dilemmas. It is not surprising that, despite manifold structural pressures working against us, take-up for GCSE history is once again buoyant. There are all manner of reasons for this - is...
    School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

  • Hitting the right note: how useful is the music of African-Americans to historians?

      Teaching History article
    Here is a wonderful reminder of the richness of materials available to history teachers. With ever greater emphasis being placed on different learning styles, it is a good moment to remind ourselves that we can cater for virtually all of them in our classrooms. This includes a preference for learning...
    Hitting the right note: how useful is the music of African-Americans to historians?