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  • Film: Building Subject Knowledge Quickly

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series.  As a teacher, you may be teaching topics that you have never studied before. In this episode of the Beginning Teacher webinar series, Laura London, Lecturer in Education on the history PGCE at the University of East Anglia gives advice on...
    Film: Building Subject Knowledge Quickly

  • Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 6-10)

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series. In this two-part film, Rachel Foster (teaching associate and secondary PGCE lead at the university of Cambridge) explores the key principles and processes of lesson planning for new teachers. View the first part here. This series is designed to support beginning...
    Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 6-10)

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances,  so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity

  • Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 1-5)

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series. In this two part film, Rachel Foster (teaching associate and secondary PGCE lead at the university of Cambridge) explores the key principles and processes of lesson planning for new teachers. View the second part here. This series is designed to support beginning history...
    Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 1-5)

  • Film: Teaching history for beginners... Disciplinary concepts

      Webinar
    Welcome to our filmed webinar series Teaching History For Beginners. This series is designed to support beginning history teachers and can be used by mentors or SCITTs with new history teachers in training or by beginning teachers eager to get ahead. Each webinar, presented by experienced history ITE tutors, lecturers and...
    Film: Teaching history for beginners... Disciplinary concepts

  • Triumphs Show 172: The history classroom lending library

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Tim Jenner and Jessica Angell share how the History Department Lending Library at Cambourne Village College began and developed, and the positive impact it has had on both students and staff.
    Triumphs Show 172: The history classroom lending library

  • Thinking makes it so: cognitive psychology and history teaching

      Teaching History article
    What, exactly, is learned knowledge - and why does it matter in history teaching? Michael Fordham seeks to use the general tenets of cognitive psychology to inform the debate about how history teachers might get the best from their students, in particular in considering the role of memory. Fordham surveys the latest research concerning memory while also arguing that remembering does matter in history...
    Thinking makes it so: cognitive psychology and history teaching

  • The importance of subject specific training

      HA Update
    It is my passion for history and interest in young people that has sustained me both as a teacher and latterly as a PGCE history tutor. Last term a number of seemingly unrelated issues began to coalesce in my mind. Over the summer I met a number of teachers that...
    The importance of subject specific training

  • Making rigour a departmental reality

      Teaching History article
    Faced with the introduction of a two-year key stage and a new whole-school assessment policy, Rachel Arscott and Tom Hinks decided to make a virtue out of necessity and reconsider their whole approach to planning, teaching and assessment at Key Stage 3. In this article they give an account of...
    Making rigour a departmental reality

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Historical significance first appeared in England’s National Curriculum for history in 1995. It entered the assessment framework (Level Descriptions) in 2008. In 2014, it became part of the History NC ‘Aims’. One thing never changes, however: it is hard. But history teachers have written a great deal about historical significance...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance

  • Cunning Plan 163.2: Developing an A-level course in medieval history

      Teaching History feature
    Medieval history has always been a Cinderella era for post-16 students. Some schools offer A-levels in classical civilisation, but most A-level history courses focus on the early-modern and modern periods. A few schools teach an A-level medieval module, with the Crusades being a popular choice. I was therefore excited at...
    Cunning Plan 163.2: Developing an A-level course in medieval history

  • Promoting rigorous historical scholarship

      Teaching History article
    The history department at Cottenham Village College has one more member than you might expect. Ruth Brown is a teaching assistant (TA) and one of the longest-standing members of the department, and this article is about how her work has an impact on specific pupils, whole classes and teachers. The key...
    Promoting rigorous historical scholarship

  • Year 8 and interpretations of the First World War

      Teaching History article
    Dan Smith was concerned that his pupils were drawing on over-simplified generalisations about different periods of the past when they were considering why interpretations change over time. This led him to consider how pupils’ contextual knowledge and chronological fluency might be used more explicitly in order to avoid weak generalisations...
    Year 8 and interpretations of the First World War

  • From the history of maths to the history of greatness

      Teaching History article
    Readers of Teaching History will be familiar with the benefits and difficulties of cross-curricular planning, and the pages of this journal have often carried analysis of successful collaborations with the English department, or music, or geography. Harry Fletcher-Wood describes in this article a collaboration involving maths, providing for us the...
    From the history of maths to the history of greatness

  • Using oral history in the classroom

      Multipage Article
    The Oral History Society has kindly agreed to produce two new films aimed at history teachers who are new to carrying out or using oral histories either in their teaching or with students. These two films will equip teachers with the essential tools and knowledge for using and devising effective...
    Using oral history in the classroom

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 162: GCSE Thematic Study

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Thematic studies have been a long-standing feature of the Schools History Project (SHP) GCSE specifications in England and Wales; but for teachers of ‘Modern World’ GCSE specifications, the thematic study in the new GCSE specifications for teaching in England from September 2016 is unfamiliar territory. Perhaps you are entirely new...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 162: GCSE Thematic Study

  • Move Me On 162: Reading

      Teaching History feature
    This issue’s problem: James Connolly is finding it difficult to judge how much or what kind of reading he should expect of his students. James Connolly, an eager and knowledgeable historian, has frequently struggled to pitch things appropriately for students. This applies particularly to his expectations of their reading, but also...
    Move Me On 162: Reading

  • Adventures in assessment

      Teaching History article
    In Teaching History 157, Assessment Edition, a number of different teachers shared the ways in which their departments were approaching the assessment and reporting of students’ progress in a ‘post-levels’ world. This article adds to those examples, first by illustrating how teachers from different schools in the Bristol area are...
    Adventures in assessment

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 161: Teaching substantive concepts

      Teaching History feature
    It’s worrying when pupils reach Year 9 or 10 unable to properly interpret or find fluency in major abstract nouns that crop up again and again in history. They should have bumped into ‘empire’, ‘republic’, ‘federation’, ‘peasantry’, ‘commons’ and ‘communism’, many times by Year 10, so why are many students...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 161: Teaching substantive concepts

  • Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

      Teaching History article
    Alex Alcoe was concerned that mastery of certain keywords and question formulae at GCSE perhaps obscured fundamental gaps in his students’ understanding of the nature of causation. These gaps were revealed when he invited Year 12 students to make explicit, by annotating a diagram, their understanding of the relationship between...
    Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 160: Progression in evidential understanding

      Teaching History feature
    You have a wealth of fascinating sources you would love to explore with students but despair at their seeming inability to connect ‘source work' with the construction of historical claims. Year 7 get stuck in the ‘it's biased so we can never know' trap again and again. Year 9 students...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 160: Progression in evidential understanding

  • Move Me On 159: Writing Frames

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Hannah Mitchell would like to wean pupils off the use of writing frames. Hannah Mitchell has embarked on her PGCE training after a year spent working as a Teaching Assistant. Her varied experiences in that role - sometimes working one-to-one with young people, within a targeted intervention programme,...
    Move Me On 159: Writing Frames

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 159: Writing history essays

      Teaching History feature
    Until the 1990s, it was unusual for the majority of England's secondary school students to write history essays. The traditional essay was a staple of the old History O Level examinations, but fewer than 20% of pupils did these history exams. In the 1980s, various history teachers became increasingly concerned...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 159: Writing history essays

  • Move Me On 157: Getting knowledge across

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Rose Valognes feels she hasn't got enough ways of getting knowledge across to the students before they can do something with it. After a positive start to her training year, Rose Valognes seems to have got stuck in a rut in her thinking, with her lessons falling...
    Move Me On 157: Getting knowledge across

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 157: Teaching Overview

      Teaching History feature
    Overwhelmed by overview? Bewildered by how to teach bigger pictures? Tied up in mental knots by trying to work out the difference between thematic stories, frameworks and outlines? You are not alone. Like many history teachers, you feel more confident when teaching depth studies but find yourself beating a rapid...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 157: Teaching Overview